Gas clouds glut on themselves and ignite something within them that will outshine any molecule. A star is born.

Corner for Cool Creations: Chris Hasler's History of the World Podcast (https://historyoftheworldpodcast.com/)

My website: https://uluscri.neocities.org/from-nothing/from-nothing-to-us.html

The page for this chapter: https://uluscri.neocities.org/from-nothing/podcast/1-2-TBoS

My youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FromNothingToUs

You can contact me at [email protected] for any questions or comments you may have, though you can send those over whatever app you’re listening to this on as well.

The intro, transition, and outro music is all from Messa da requiem by Giuseppe Verdi. Intro and outro are both from Dies irae. Recordings courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and the Orchestra and Choir of Teatro Reale dell'Opera di Roma via a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Link with all the recordings: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Requiem_(Verdi)

You can find the show on podcast platforms, such as:

Further Reading:

This first proper episode of From Nothing to Us covers from the Big Bang to the first atoms in the universe and the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation.

My website: https://uluscri.neocities.org/from-nothing/from-nothing-to-us.html

The page for this episode: https://uluscri.neocities.org/from-nothing/podcast/1-1-NtS

My youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FromNothingToUs

You can contact me at [email protected] for any questions or comments you may have, though you can send those over whatever app you’re listening to this on as well.

The intro, transition, and outro music is all from Messa da requiem by Giuseppe Verdi. Intro and outro are both from Dies irae. Recordings courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and the Orchestra and Choir of Teatro Reale dell'Opera di Roma via a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Link with all the recordings: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Requiem_(Verdi)

Further Reading:

This chapter serves as the introduction and reasoning behind this whole history series :).

And my fantasy worldbuilding channel is: https://www.youtube.come/@Uluscri

The intro, transition, and outro music is all from Messa da requiem by Giuseppe Verdi. Intro and outro are both from Dies irae. Recordings courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and the Orchestra and Choir of Teatro Reale dell'Opera di Roma via a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Link with all the recordings: ⁠https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Requiem_(Verdi)⁠