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This is where I would like to be in space. I want to be traveling in a time machine that allows me to watch the formation of an M class star, like our own star, from it's beginnings as a gaseous cloud, through the accretion disk, and protostar stages to the moment of star birth when nuclear fusion begins and the star gives of it's first light.
E=MC² - A Star is born, is a minds eye view and a sonic representation of the process of Star formation. Formed from a cloud of Hydrogen, Helium and other gases and matter left behind by a red giant star that went Super Nova, the cloud starts to contract and spin from the gravitational forces cause by the mass of material in the cloud.
As gravity has it's way with this rotating mass and slowly collapses the material into a protostar, the pressure and heat from the gravitational collapse becomes greater and greater. The atoms of material become more and more densely packed and more energetic causing the internal heat within the protostar to increase to a point where nuclear fusion can begin.
When that happens the protostar explodes in a runaway chain reaction of fusion, turning hydrogen into helium, and blowing away most of what remains of the accretion disk from which the new born Star has emerged, leaving only the star and any of the heavier elements from which the inner planets will most likely form.
And God said, "Let there be light", and there was light !
I hope you enjoy my feeble attempt to represent this event in music.
Ed
E=MC² - A Star is born, is a minds eye view and a sonic representation of the process of Star formation. Formed from a cloud of Hydrogen, Helium and other gases and matter left behind by a red giant star that went Super Nova, the cloud starts to contract and spin from the gravitational forces cause by the mass of material in the cloud.
As gravity has it's way with this rotating mass and slowly collapses the material into a protostar, the pressure and heat from the gravitational collapse becomes greater and greater. The atoms of material become more and more densely packed and more energetic causing the internal heat within the protostar to increase to a point where nuclear fusion can begin.
When that happens the protostar explodes in a runaway chain reaction of fusion, turning hydrogen into helium, and blowing away most of what remains of the accretion disk from which the new born Star has emerged, leaving only the star and any of the heavier elements from which the inner planets will most likely form.
And God said, "Let there be light", and there was light !
I hope you enjoy my feeble attempt to represent this event in music.
Ed
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E=MC² - A Star is born
by: Ed Wemmerus
Copyright © 9/20/2009 Edward C. Wemmerus Sr.
All Rights Reserved
by: Ed Wemmerus
Copyright © 9/20/2009 Edward C. Wemmerus Sr.
All Rights Reserved
SmokeyVW
nice one! i really liked the mix of major and minor keys in particular. and the ending was majestic.
thanks