Wed Jul 09 00:30:00 UTC 2025: **Headline: Where Did We Come From? Scientists Explain the Atomic Origins of Everything**
**New Delhi – July 9, 2025** – According to research summarized by Associate Professor of Physics Stephen L. Levy and published in The Conversation, a simple question with a complicated answer has resurfaced: Where do atoms come from?
According to scientists, understanding how atoms form is critical since they are the fundamental building blocks of everything with mass. The universe began with the Big Bang, and within the first few minutes, it cooled enough for protons and neutrons to fuse into the nuclei of hydrogen and helium. About 400,000 years later, these nuclei captured electrons, forming the first atoms. Hydrogen makes up 90% and Helium makes up 8%.
Elements heavier than iron require even more extreme conditions to form. These are forged in the cataclysmic explosions of supernovas, where the inner core of a heavy star collapses after running out of fuel. Other dramatic stellar events, like colliding neutron stars, create even heavier elements like gold.
Scientists are still unraveling the mysteries of dark matter, the stuff that makes up most of the universe but does not appear to be made from normal atoms.
Understanding how atoms are made just requires learning a little general relativity, plus some nuclear, particle and atomic physics.
First Piper 