By Julian Chela-Flores
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At an earlier epoch there would have been too much thermal energy for the electromagnetic force to be able to bound up nuclei and electrons. Up to that moment these elementary particles were too energetic to allow atoms to be formed . Once 'recombination' of electrons and protons was possible, due to falling temperatures, thermal motion was no longer able to prevent the electromagnetic interaction from forming hydrogen atoms . This is the 'moment of decoupling' of matter and radiation. At this stage of universal expansion the force of gravity was able to induce the hydrogen gas to coalesce into stars and galaxies.
The intellectual revolution initiated by Darwin has produced a far-reaching change in our thinking, even outside the strict boundaries of the natural sciences, but the radical departure from the biological science of his time consisted in the formulation simultaneously with Alfred Wallace of a mechanism, natural selection, for the evolution of life. At a time when the prevalent ideas in the scientific community were mathematical principles and physical laws, biology was enriched with the concepts of chance and probability.
This sketch of the pathway to carbon compounds and its partition during planetary formation will be very significant in the following chapters (particularly in Chapter 8): it will help us to trace the abundance of organic compounds in sites of the Solar System where life could arise. It is worthwhile to point out at this stage that in 1983 the Infrared Astronom ical Satellite (IRAS) discovered some stars with excess thermal radiation not accountable by the amount that the star could emit. The result was interpreted in terms of disks of dust around these stars .