Fusion And The Speed Of Light

A star is born when a vast amount of matter comes together in space by it's mutual gravity. What elements or type of matter does not make much difference. Gravity is actually a very weak force, compared to the other fundamental forces of the universe, but it is cumulative.

The beginning of the star is when the gravity at the center of the star is enough to overcome the electron repulsion between atoms so that smaller atoms are forced together into larger ones, this process is referred to as fusion.

The original smaller atoms, starting with the hydrogen that is the lightest element in the universe, contain more total internal energy then the larger atom that is produced by the fusion. This energy is released and is the reason that stars shine. The current stage of the fusion process in the sun is the crunching together of four hydrogen atoms into one helium atom, and the release of the leftover energy.

The atoms in matter are mostly empty space. The reason that they do not simply merge together when one object is placed on top of another is the electron repulsion in the facing atoms of each object. The fact that both electrons are negatively-charged, and like charges repel, is why the floor holds you up when you stand on it. For a star to begin, the gravity at it's center must be great enough to overcome this electron repulsion and fuse the atoms together.

But the question here is why it requires just the force that it does to crunch two or more atoms together into one larger new atom, in the process known as fusion. The exact amount of force that it requires to force two or more atoms to merge together is information, and that information must come from somewhere.

FISSION AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT

Fission is the opposite nuclear process fission fusion. While fusion forces small atoms together into larger ones, fission splits heavy atoms into smaller ones. In both processes energy is released. Fission is usually accomplished by firing a high-speed neutron at a mass of fissile material so that it will, by chance, hit a nucleus in an atom and split it apart.

We know, by Albert Einstein's famous formula E = MC squared, that the speed of light has a relationship to fission. This formula is about the tremendous amount of energy that is contained in a relatively small amount of matter. The E is for "energy", M is for "mass" and the C means "constant". The speed of light is the constant so that the energy within mass is equal to the amount of mass multiplied by the speed of light squared.

According to my cosmology theory, the speed of light is really a right angle. We perceive it as a speed because it is the innate velocity at which our consciousnesses proceed along the bundles of strings that comprise our bodies and brains. We really live in four dimensions, the fourth we perceive as time, so that what we see as the fundamental particles of matter in three dimensions of space, such as electrons, are really strings in four dimensions of space.

When a nucleus is split during fission, the like-charged protons now have nothing binding them together in a single nucleus. They move away from each other by the most direct route, due to their mutual electrical like-charge repulsion. That most direct route is straight lines in opposite directions. Since matter is really bundles of strings that are aligned mostly in the same direction in four dimensions, that direct route taken by the two halves of the now-split atom are at right angles in opposite directions away from each other.

Since my cosmology theory defines the speed of light as really such a right angle, that is why the speed of light is connected to nuclear fission in Einstein's formula E = MC squared. The second speed of light in the formula, to square this first one, is the movement of our consciousnesses along the bundles of strings comprising our bodies and brains while this fission is going on.

THE SPEED OF LIGHT AND FUSION

But if the speed of light, which in my cosmology theory is actually strings of matter bent at right angles to the primary direction in four-dimensional space that the strings of matter at rest are aligned, is a factor in the energy released in fission, then could it be possible that it might also be a factor in the opposite nuclear process as the energy required for fusion?

At zero velocity two objects in contact but at rest will have the strings that are their outermost electrons, the ones in the two objects that face each other, parallel to one another. Electron repulsion between the two objects will be at a maximum.

But if two atoms are moving directly toward each other at the speed of light, the electron repulsion between them will be zero and they will effortlessly merge together. This is just the opposite of the two nuclei in the split atom of fission moving away from each other at the speed of light, because fusion is the opposite process to fission.

But what if two atoms collide at a velocity somewhere between zero and the speed of light? If the electron repulsion that keeps the atoms separate is at a maximum at zero velocity and a minimum at the speed of light then it makes sense that if the relative velocity of the two atoms is closer to the speed of light than it is to zero velocity then they will merge. If the velocity is closer to zero then they will bounce off each other and will not merge.

In other words, it seems that if the relative velocity of two atoms coming directly toward each other in the center of a star is greater than half the speed of light, or a 45 degree angle in the strings of four dimensions than they will merge together in fusion.

There is tremendous heat in the centers of stars. Remember that heat is the kinetic energy of atoms in motion in a material. The faster the atoms are moving, the hotter the object is. When two objects are brought into contact, some of the kinetic energy of the atoms in the hotter object is imparted to the cooler object.

Heat is not the only factor. There is also the tremendous pressure in the centers of stars from the gravity that brought the star together in the first place. This pressure is also energy so it lowers the velocity necessary to get the atoms to merge in fusion.

But basically, it seems to me that there is a definite relationship between nuclear fusion and the speed of light. If the speed of light is such an important factor in the opposite process, nuclear fission in the formula E = MC squared, then why shouldn't we expect it to be a factor also in fusion?

Large atoms that undergo fission have to first be put together by fusion and if the speed of light is such a factor in the fission, doesn't is seem necessary that it was also a factor in the fusion that put the fissile atom together in the first place?

It requires such a vast amount of heat and pressure to get atoms to fuse together but this is information as to exactly how much and this information must come from somewhere.

Put simply, if the total kinetic energy of two atoms that collide in the center of a star is equal to or greater than half the speed of light then the two atoms will fuse together into a larger atom. if it is not then the two atoms will bounce off each other, by electron repulsion, and will not fuse. The universe is really a simple place and there has to be a simple answer as to why the amount of force required for fusion is what it is.