Chapter 2 The Inner Planets
2 The heavier elements Fe, O, Si and Mg C found in the inner planets.
The composition of the inner planets are made up mostly of elements that are supposedly created only by the "nucleosynthesis process of Supernovae" as the cores collapses the density increases until the core reaches the density of neutrons. During the collapse endothermic fusion reactions take place forming elements more massive than nickel.
Violent recoil then takes place and a massive supernova explosion occurs in which all the particles in the plasma core are blown outward with the same kinetic energy. Since the collapsed core is a very dense plasma consisting of individual nuclei and electrons and it can be treated as an ideal gas. This means that iron nuclei will have the same kinetic energy as gold or carbon nuclei so their sppeds will vary accordingly.
This results in the more massive particles having lower velocities from the explosion. This also means that the lighter elements should move away from the explosion a much greater distance than the heavier elements. Sort of like a mass spectrometer on a much greeter scale.
That being the case all the elements from the supernova should be arranged in shells of different elements at varying distances from the supernova remnant. The lower atomic number elements being much further away than the higher atomic number elements.
Somehow the materials in our "Gas cloud" contained a proportionate mix of the nucleosynthesis fusion products one would expect to find from a supernova, yet there is no supernova remnant anywhere to be seen. Skeptics will say that over the past 4.5 by our space neighbor hood has changed and the remnant is long gone.
I remind them that we are in a desolate spot in a spiral galaxy that is slowly increasing in size and we are as is the rest of the galaxy rotating in synchronous orbit about the galactic center. 4.5 billion years ago the galaxy was very much the same with all the stars in the galaxy rotating about the center as they do now. The only difference was that the galaxy would have appeared as though it had been shrunk in all proportions. Tour Milky Way galaxy was 10 - 30 percent smaller than it is now. This is based on the assumption that the Milky Way is 13.5 By old. It started out very small and dense and that it expanded at a decreasing rate over time.
If our star and solar system originated from the blown off material of one or more supernovae then the remnants should be close by but they aren't.
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