Pristine Big Bang Gas Found

New submitter cekerr sends this quote from Discovery News: "U.S. scientists have found two interstellar clouds of original gas, which contain only original elements created moments after the universe's birth (abstract). Unlike everything else in the universe, the gas clouds have never mingled with elements forged later in stars. The existence of pristine gas that formed minutes after the Big Bang explosion, some 13.7 billion years ago, had been predicted, but never before observed."

The whole universe was in a hot, dense state...

[Rei]

Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait...

Big Whoop

[Frosty Piss]

Every day I have a bowl of beans at lunch and make some "Pristine Big Bang Gas".

frist!

[Tyler Durden]

It seems that these gas clouds have the ultimate claims to First Post.

Pristine Big Bang Gas Found?

[SeaFox]

Was it in the vicinity of Uranus?

[okay, okay, someone had to say it]

This proves one thing.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

This clearly proves that Taco Bell seven-layer-burrito is more ancient than our galaxy. Where else could that pristine gas could have come from, I ask.

Re:The whole universe was in a hot, dense state...

[Nerdfest]

The whole universe was in a hot, dense state

Florida? Alabama?

Re:A question.

[thrich81]

This is going to be not quite right, but ... Supernova explosions and the Big Bang started with different precursors and followed different mechanisms. Supernovas start with a big batch of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium to begin with ( could be all the way up to iron, I think) then they blow up in an extremely dense mixture of the elements, during which there are tremendous neutron fluxes to build heavier elements. During the Big Bang there were no elemental precursors just mass-energy beyond current physics -- as it expanded many particles "condensed" out of the mass energy, but it all was expanding so fast that there was no time for all that many stable particles to form (and the antimatter and matter mostly annihilated each other). There was only enough time where the whole thing was dense enough to form atomic nuclei for hydrogen, helium and a tiny amount of lithium to form. Now, I'll stand back to be demolished by someone who really knows the field.