The Big Bang, Stellar Evolution, and the Origin of the Elements

What came before the Big Bang? Nobody knows for sure. But there seems to be a lot known as to what happened afterwards, especially when it comes to the origin of the basic building blocks of the material that we know of that makes up the Earth, planets, stars and galaxies--the elements.

Come participate in a discussion that reviews some of the research that has been done on what we know, how we know what we know, and what people used to think the universe was made up of in ages past.