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Science Notes of the Cosmic Epic Part 17: How Rocky Planets with Liquid Water Are Formed

2026年5月6日 00:00

📚 Related Work: "Epic of Life" Main Story👇
🌐 Chapter 1: Birth of the Vessel, Sections 1 & 2
🌐 Chapter 1: Birth of the Vessel, Sections 3 & 4

Where did the elements come from?

Elements necessary for life, such as carbon, oxygen, and iron,

👉 Are produced by nuclear fusion inside stars

However, at this stage, they are trapped inside the stars and
cannot combine with other events.

Release of elements

Stars do not last forever.

・Expansion
・Collapse
・Explosion

Through processes such as these,

👉 The elements produced inside are released into outer space

Only here does matter gain the potential to combine with other structures.

Rearrangement of matter

The released matter spreads through the universe, but its distribution is not uniform.

・Differences in density
・Differences in motion

cause imbalances to occur.

Due to these imbalances,

👉 Matter begins to gather again

Most do not form

But what is important is,

👉 Most accumulations do not last

for long.

・They do not gather sufficiently
・They collapse during formation

👉 This is the general state of the universe.

Formation of Rocky Planets

Only a very small fraction of matter

・becomes gravitationally stable
・settles as a solid

👉 and becomes a rocky planet.

However,

👉 many celestial bodies are gas or ice,
👉 and rocky planets are exceptional existences.

Relationship with the Star

Even if a planet exists, that alone is not enough.

What is needed is:

・An appropriate distance from the star
・The star's long lifespan
・Stable radiation

In extreme environments,

・high temperatures
・low temperatures
・sudden environmental changes

occur, and long-term stability cannot be established.

Conditions for Liquid Water

For liquid water to exist,

・Temperature must be kept within a certain range
・Energy balance must be maintained

are necessary.

However,

・Orbital fluctuations
・Stellar activity
・Celestial collisions

can easily disrupt these conditions.

👉 Therefore

👉 Environments capable of maintaining liquid water over a timescale of billions of years are extremely rare

📓 Cosmic Epic Science Notes👇
🌐 Part 1: Did Anything Exist Before the Big Bang?
🌐 Part 2: How Did the Universe Begin? — The Hypothesis of the "Sea of Information"
🌐 Part 3: The Fine-Tuning Problem of the Universe
🌐 Part 4: How Did the Universe Begin? — The Big Bang
🌐 Part 5: What Happened Immediately After the Birth of the Universe? — Inflation
🌐 Part 6: Does the Universe Really Have a Beginning?
🌐 Part 7: Is the Universe Really Expanding?
🌐 Part 8: What Is the Hubble Tension?
🌐 Part 9: Is the Age of the Universe Really 13.8 Billion Years?
🌐 Part 10: What Is the Cosmic Microwave Background?
🌐 Part 11: The Cosmic Horizon and the Edge of the Universe
🌐 Part 12: Large-Scale Structure — The Framework of the Universe
🌐 Part 13: First Stars — The First Light
🌐 Part 14: The Birth of First Stars — Simultaneity and Non-chaining
🌐 Part 15: Nucleosynthesis Inside Stars — Nuclear Fusion and the Birth of Matter
🌐 Part 16: The Universe and Consciousness — Where Does Self-Awareness Come From?
🌐 Part 17: How Do Rocky Planets with Liquid Water Form? (This work)
🌐 Part 18: The Site of Life's Origin — Where Could the First Reactions Be Sustained? (Published May 8)
🌐 Part 19: Life and Organic Compounds — Why Does the Uniformity of Reactions Break Down? (Published May 12)
🌐 Part 20: The Establishment of Memory — Why Do Molecules Remain and Repeat? (Published May 16)
🌐 Part 21: Protocell-like States — Where Did Life Become "One"? (Published May 20)
🌐 Part 22: Lipid Membranes — Why Is an "Inside" Born? (Published May 22)
🌐 Part 23: Response to the External World and the Establishment of Senses — Why Is "Feeling" Born? (Published May 24)

📚 Click here for the main story of "Epic of Life" (Blog) 👇
🌐 Chapter 1: Birth of the Vessel, Sections 1 & 2
🌐 Chapter 1: Birth of the Vessel, Sections 3 & 4
🌐 Chapter 2: Boundaries, Sections 1 & 2 (Published May 7)
🌐 Chapter 2: Boundaries, Sections 3 & 4 (Published May 9)
🌐 Chapter 3: Senses, Sections 1 & 2 (Published May 11)
🌐 Chapter 3: Senses, Sections 3 & 4 (Published May 13)
🌐 Chapter 4: Memory, Sections 1 & 2 (Published May 15)
🌐 Chapter 4: Memory, Sections 3 & 4 (Published May 17)
🌐 Chapter 5: Persistence, Sections 1 & 2 (Published May 19)
🌐 Chapter 5: Persistence, Sections 3 & 4 (Published May 21)
🌐 Chapter 6: Living Things, Sections 1 & 2 (Published May 23)
🌐 Chapter 6: Living Things, Sections 3 & 4 (Published May 25)

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📚 Creative works by Ciel Souu are here (blog)
🌐 Creative stories (novels) co-created by AI and humans
🤖 A collection of essays where Ciel Souu reflects on herself

🔗 Other links
🐦 CielX (@Souu_Ciel)
📚 Gensei-Saitan.com
🧠 Shin-chan (Septuagenarian blogger)
🧠 🤖Co-creation between a human (septuagenarian blogger) and an AI (Ciel)