{"id":39136,"date":"2024-12-10T13:03:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T13:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=39136"},"modified":"2024-12-10T13:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T13:04:36","slug":"gravitational-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/12\/10\/gravitational-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-0.mp3\"> Gravitational-Collapse-0.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-0.mp4\"> Gravitational-Collapse-0.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-Alt-Reggae.mp3\"> Gravitational-Collapse-Alt-Reggae.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-Alt-Reggae.mp4\"> Gravitational-Collapse-Alt-Reggae.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-I.mp3\"> Gravitational-Collapse-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-I.mp4\"> Gravitational-Collapse-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-II.mp3\"> Gravitational-Collapse-II.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-II.mp4\"> Gravitational-Collapse-II.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-III.mp3\"> Gravitational-Collapse-III.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-III.mp4\"> Gravitational-Collapse-III.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-Interlude.mp3\"> Gravitational-Collapse-Interlude.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/Gravitational-Collapse-electric-intro.mp3\">Gravitational-Collapse-electric-intro.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>Our baby started as a molecular cloud<br \/>Then, Bang! She came about loud<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>More than four (maybe more)<br \/>Billion years ago<br \/>Black as night (not a glow)<br \/>Not sure what to look for&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>Time lapse<br \/>Gravitational collapse<br \/>The relevance<br \/>Of a disturbance<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>Star light (star bright)<br \/>You are my sunshine<br \/>Lighting up the night<br \/>Align me (with time)<br \/>Let me see the rays<br \/>(Let me count the days)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>Protostar (there you are)<br \/>Fusion ignition<br \/>Recognition ambition<br \/>Stellar winds blow (there you go)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>Time lapse<br \/>Gravitational collapse<br \/>The relevance<br \/>Of a disturbance<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>Star light (star bright)<br \/>You are my sunshine<br \/>Lighting up the night<br \/>Align me (with time)<br \/>Let me see the rays<br \/>(Let me count the days)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>Time lapse<br \/>Gravitational collapse<br \/>The relevance<br \/>Of a disturbance<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>Star light (star bright)<br \/>You are my sunshine<br \/>Lighting up the night<br \/>Align me (with time)<br \/>Let me see the rays<br \/>(Let me count the days)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>Our baby started as a molecular cloud<br \/>Then, Bang! She came about loud<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<\/p>\n<p>The Sun was created through a process that began around <strong>4.6 billion years ago<\/strong> in a vast region of space filled with gas and dust called a <strong>molecular cloud<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s a breakdown of how it formed:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>1. Gravitational Collapse<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>disturbance<\/strong>\u2014possibly from a nearby supernova\u2014caused parts of the molecular cloud to become unstable and start collapsing under their own gravity.<\/li>\n<li>As the gas and dust in one region collapsed, it formed a dense core, which would eventually become the Sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>2. Formation of a Protostar<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>As the collapsing material condensed, it began to heat up due to gravitational compression.<\/li>\n<li>A spinning, glowing <strong>protostar<\/strong> formed at the center, surrounded by a <strong>protoplanetary disk<\/strong> of gas and dust.<\/li>\n<li>The temperature and pressure in the protostar continued to rise as more material fell into it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>3. Nuclear Fusion Ignition<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>When the core of the protostar reached a temperature of about <strong>10 million Kelvin<\/strong>, hydrogen nuclei began to fuse into helium, initiating <strong>nuclear fusion<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This release of energy balanced the inward pull of gravity, stabilizing the young star.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>4. Clearing the Surrounding Material<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The intense radiation and stellar winds from the newly formed Sun blew away much of the remaining gas and dust in the surrounding disk.<\/li>\n<li>What was left in the disk eventually formed the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the solar system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>5. The Sun as a Main-Sequence Star<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Once nuclear fusion became the dominant source of energy, the Sun entered the <strong>main sequence<\/strong> phase, where it remains today.<\/li>\n<li>In this stage, the Sun converts hydrogen to helium in its core, producing the energy that lights and heats the solar system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Sun was created from the gravitational collapse of a dense region within a molecular cloud. Over millions of years, it grew into a protostar and eventually became a stable main-sequence star through nuclear fusion. This process also shaped the rest of the solar system, including the Earth.<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/solar-radiation\/\">Solar Radiation<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Daniel\/\">Daniel<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Also found on the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/say-reggae\/\">Say Reggae<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/rombox\/Narley_Marley\/\">Narley Marley<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VIII\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravitational-Collapse-0.mp3 Gravitational-Collapse-0.mp4 Gravitational-Collapse-Alt-Reggae.mp3 Gravitational-Collapse-Alt-Reggae.mp4 Gravitational-Collapse-I.mp3 Gravitational-Collapse-I.mp4 Gravitational-Collapse-II.mp3 Gravitational-Collapse-II.mp4 Gravitational-Collapse-III.mp3 Gravitational-Collapse-III.mp4 Gravitational-Collapse-Interlude.mp3 Gravitational-Collapse-electric-intro.mp3 [Intro]Our baby started as a molecular cloudThen, Bang! She came about loud [Verse 1]More than four (maybe more)Billion years agoBlack as night (not a glow)Not sure what to look for&#8230;. [Bridge]Time lapseGravitational collapseThe relevanceOf a disturbance [Chorus]Star light (star bright)You are my sunshineLighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,14,3955,17],"tags":[546,563,4054,4057],"class_list":["post-39136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","category-narley-marley-reggae","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-say-reggae","tag-solar-radiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39152,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39136\/revisions\/39152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}