Into the Heart of the Big Bang

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 17, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

For deuterium, a form of the simplest element, hydrogen, it's been all downhill since the big bang birth of the universe more than 10 billion years ago.

That's because all the deuterium in the cosmos was manufactured during history's first few minutes, before the density and pressure of the early universe fell below the threshold needed to cook up elements heavier than helium and lithium.

Since then, the total stock of deuterium, with a nucleus of one proton and one neutron, has been decreasing as the isotope is consumed by the nuclear furnaces in successive generations of stars. But the ...

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