Carbon, carbon everywhere, but not from the Big Bang
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
As Star Trek is so fond of reminding us, we're carbon-based life forms. But the event that jump-started the universe, the Big Bang, didn't actually produce any carbon, so where the heck did it -- and we -- come from? A researcher has helped create supercomputer simulations that demonstrate how carbon is produced in stars, proving an old theory correct.