3222: Star Formation

Star Formation

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Title text: It's ok, I still have some nice, cool gas clouds that aren't collapsing. As long as nothing ionizes them, I can continue to enjoy their ... HEY! NO!!!

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Explanation

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[A glowing dot is in a field of clouds, speaking to itself.]

Dot: I think I did a good job with this universe.

Dot: Pressure waves dance through gas clouds.

Dot: They clump together and then pressure pushes them apart.

[The dot observes some more densely gathering of clouds.]

Dot: Oh weird, that big clump of clouds is staying together.

Dot: Their gravity is overcoming the pressure and more gas is falling in.

[More of the increasingly fragmentary clouds start to fall into a nascent star.]

Dot: It's not stopping!

Dot: The heat is rising but the collapse is only accelerating!

Dot: I messed up bad. I messed up bad.

[There is now a shining star in place of the dense field of clouds, with a few small clouds only at a distance.

Dot: NOOOOOOOO!!!

Dot: My beautiful clouds!

Dot: Ruined! It's all ruined!

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Discussion

This entire process is unconfirmed and needs citations. ^{[citation needed]} 66.154.219.128 20:26, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Not sure if you're serious... but I rewrote some of the things that might have prompted this comment. 81.179.199.253 21:49, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

The something that ionized the gas clouds is presumably the star that formed. No second deity needed. 74.76.189.192 21:12, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

I dispense with that bit. What you obviously have here is a non-omniscient creator (or shaper-of-the-universe, at the very least) who is surprised by how things turn out when they had a much simpler (or at least different) idea of how things should have proceeded. I'm reminded of The Science of Discworld (once the Dean twiddles his fingers in the proto-Roundworld, and then the wizards discovering that things just like becoming spheres more than they expected) or perhaps something where a desired result went awry due to unforeseen external factors. 81.179.199.253 21:49, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Is Randall a believer in Stupid Design? Barmar (talk) 22:42, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
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