2/ Primordial matter-energy probably comprised a highly energized dense plasma that lost energy (i.e. it cooled) as it expanded and matter condensed out. As it did so, matter became increasingly complex.
3/ At the macro scale of the observable universe the chaotic plasma cooled to form a hierarchy of rotating structures of solar systems, galaxies, galactic clusters, superclusters, and sheets of superclusters separated by voids that together constitute a complex whole.
-
-
4/ At the microscopic scale fundamental particles of matter combined to form more complex nuclei of hydrogen that successively complexified by combining to form the nuclei of some 95 naturally occurring elements.
Show this thread -
5/ On the surface of one of the aggregations of matter, planet Earth, which formed over the course of some 4+ billion years ago from the combination of material debris orbiting the newly ignited Sun, life emerged.
Show this thread -
6/ Inanimate molecules combined to form the complexity, the size, the changing structures, and the functioning of the simplest possible independent lifeforms.
Show this thread -
7/ Although the boundary is blurred, the emergence of life marks a change of kind, not simply degree, from inanimate matter.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.