Elements
Radiolab
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The Beginning of All Elements
The sun is taking protons, individual protons, and smashing them together. And that gives you energy, the energy of the sun. Their lost mass is the sunlight that we bask in. I have never thought of light as former mass. That's what a star does,. It's just little atoms like hydrogen together to make bigger atoms like helium. Every little collision it's doing generates some energy, which keeps the star going.
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