>>7623733>this is not so easily explained by current Solar System formation modelsLets keep in mind that baryogenesis itself is a mystery. I've asked physicists about methods of turning light into matter - they've told me that there is no efficient method. How exactly was matter created?
What's with carbon stars? Why do young neutron stars have carbon halos? If neutron stars come from carbon stars, they'd probably also contain carbon in their crusts and cores. Humans, lo and behold, use graphite in their nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber - carbon and fission/fusion are inseparable, in so far as practical applications are concerned.
>Said models also predicted a dirty snowball comet, not something that looks more like a fragment of an exploded planetThe further back you go in cosmology, the more things look like a hamfisted collection of space oddities. As it's advanced, we've discovered the connections between these oddities, and found that there's a cosmic cycle.
I don't think it's a coincidence that life is based on molecules with carbon atoms in them, and I don't think that it's a coincidence that carbon-12 and helium-4 both have bosonic nuclei, and form the basis of photosynthesis.
Life can transform an entire atmosphere, and lifeforms can harness fission and fusion. We can create the energies required for baryogenesis - could we destroy planets? Getting at all that carbon would be worth it - you need it for organic chemistry, and for nuclear power.
Will we succeed in making black holes? Hawking radiation produces a jet of light and matter that result in a sphere of matter somewhere else in space - this is the white hole. I don't think it's a coincidence that the black hole in the center of our galaxy is surrounded by a disk or sphere of matter.
For that matter, what exactly is a WIMP? Could mortal men be the reason most matter is dark - we've converted it for our purposes? Maybe aliens are silent because they *are* the dark matter.
