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Big Bang in a Rain-Lashed Tent

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You Can't Make the Universe

Even after the formation of these neutral atoms that would be mostly hydrogen and helium gas, the universe was too hot for those clouds of gas to condense into stars. You need you need a chill breeze to trigger star formation. Last month, you couldn't have made any stars, but listeners this month, you can you start those star making factories. This is not that you can try it. Just cold enough to start contracting some gas clouds.

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