December Flower
Bluelighter
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Well you gotta see every single sun as a sort of "molecular forge", because that's what it is.I'm right there with you (i think).
Nature it seems to me favours extreme diversity, abundance & divergent weirdness. A restless need to keep the party going & the party surprising. So an empty universe makes no sense to me either.
Can you explain that further? "Our sun is at iron" sounds intriguing.
In the beginning stages they all make Hydrogen/Helium, that's just how it goes(this process never stops until the star turns into a so-called "giant"), then gradually move up the periodic table and produce additional elements as they grow and work through different resources, so Helium next, then Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, ...
Our sun at the moment is producing Iron atoms, billions of them. As Iron is only number 26 of 118 elements, you also understand why it is significantly smaller than almost all other suns out there, it's essentially a baby sun.
Since it hasn't gone any further than Iron, the only assumption left is that every single molecule and atom that is further on the periodic table than Iron actually comes from another sun.
The atoms or molecules move via water, as water at a certain point(I think absolute zero, but no guarantees) becomes liquid again, you could call it the postman of the universe, as it works to transport molecules over billions of lightyears throughout space.
All this is oversimplified. Can't stress this enough.
edit: little bit of extra info: once they produce Iron, it's all they're going to produce pre-Supernova. So the star has to explode in order to create even more elements. And post-Supernova you get a new baby sun, and enough material for a solar system

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