[Robert A Cook PE]

I'm putting my (somewhat dubious) credibility on the line in full view as a target, but I can't figure this one out.

Haven't seen this addressed in any other physics or astronomy or university (classroom notes) web site, nor in any cosmology blog or textbook I've found. (Almost) every one discusses the classic theory - some in more detail than others, but none disagree about the current theory. Further,t none go through the math or mention the transition from supernova-creates-elements-and-ejects-them to the next step of dust-cloud-forms-and-our-sun-begins-rotating-and-condensing ...

There's got to be something I've missed. Some reason or some way that other (more experienced) observers have figured out this problem that I've skipped over.

[gcruse]

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[Sols]

"Further,t none go through the math or mention the transition from supernova-creates-elements-and-ejects-them to the next step of dust-cloud-forms-and-our-sun-begins-rotating-and-condensing ..."

Well if you don't take a course in astrophysics, you can't have much of an in depth knowledge about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_capture

[earglasses]

One explanation worth considering is that the Big Bang never happened, and that anything is possible given infinite time. For thirty reasons that a respected astrophysicist believes in an ageless cosmos, see... http://www.metaresearch.org/cosmology/top10BBproblems.asp
http://www.metaresearch.org/cosmology/BB-top-30.asp

[okie01]

There's got to be something I've missed. Some reason or some way that other (more experienced) observers have figured out this problem that I've skipped over.

Yours is one of those posts that make FR so freaking valuable and entertaining.

It isn't concerned with politics. But it is concerned with something important (I think) -- and something I don't know a damn thing about.

But, in reading it, I learned something.

Thanks for the post.

[Physicist]

Haven't seen this addressed in any other physics or astronomy or university (classroom notes) web site, nor in any cosmology blog or textbook I've found.

Nuclear cosmochronology is practically an industry unto itself. It's easy to find discussions about it, even on the web.