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The Recipe to Build a Universe

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The Sun Is Made of Hydrogen and Helium

In the 19 thirties, we finally figure out what the energy source of the sun is. It's nothing on the billions of years that people were starting to think about evolution. noble gases t f, right? They they basically don't react. So hang on then. Helium, helium doesn't agree o ka, but ata don't understand it. Does argon react? Argon does he wha, reallyo was tas. And so can make all these compounds. The thing is thatethe idea of the filled shell is, in a sense, a construct that we've put on there. In the end, the electrons don't really care how many electrons thay

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