Labels:bulletin board | reckoner OCR: Itis striking that the computed mix of the light elements agrees with the observed abundances That is all evidence indicates that the light elements were produced in the hot, young universe whereas the heavier elements appeared later, as products of the thermonuclear reactions that power stars The theory for the origin of the light elements emerged from the burst of research that followed the end of World WarII. George Gamow and graduate Student Ralph A Alpher of George Washington University and Robert Herman of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and others used nuclear physics data from the war effort to predict what kind of nuclear processes might have occurred in the early universe and what elements might have been produced Alpher and Herman also realized that remna ...
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