An emerging science: Astrochemistry

Here is a long, fascinating post about astrochemistry. You see, those bond-flexing molecules in yesterday’s post have specific signatures that show up on a mass spectrograph when viewed from afar. This is how we can detect some of the chemistry of the universe. We are beginning to develop an understanding of how the elements and molecules were formed in the early universe from the knowledge that is being gathered. See this link:

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/08/01/guest-post-astrochemistry-and-how-the-universe-comes-together/

More about the emerging science of astrochemistry at:
  http://bjm.scs.illinois.edu/astrochem.php

Footnote by the Blog Author
There is one quibble that I have with the link above. It postulates that immediately after the "big bang," most of the universe destroyed itself, leaving a slight excess of matter, the rest of matter and anti-matter being evenly matched.

I think there is a better explanation for the very early moments of the universe. Before the universe, there was an anti-universe composed nearly entirely of anti-matter. It came togther into a singularity and exploded (the big bang). For mathematical reasons that are above my level of understanding, such an explosion would destroy all information and structure and result in inside-out-and-upside-down particles – our universe of nearly complete matter (and almost no anti-matter). When the universe ends and all the matter rushes together, it will explode into a bounce that creates an anti-matter universe.

This bouncing, banging,bouncing, banging universe fits the math and also, finally, unequivocably, ends the controversy about the second "law" of thermodynamics, which says the disorder in the universe is increasing.
Therefore I subscribe to Martin Bojowald’s theory as shown in this October, 2008 Scientific American article:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=big-bang-or-big-bounce