800 million years after the Big Bang the densest gas sites have been exhausted and the new stars forming amid the corpses of the first generation are smaller and exhibit traces of elements beyond helium.

The smaller the star the longer it lives and those smaller than our Sun are still with us and we can see them and talk to them!

They are the SECOND GENERATION and the oldest of them remember the last days of their GLORIOUS FOREFATHERS! The first luminous beings of a new reality!

The heavier stars of the new generation from 10M to 90M do not live much longer than their massive forefathers and die in less than 30 million years.

So massive are they that the gravitational pressure at their core creates densities and temperatures hot enough to use the ALPHA PROCESS to fuse not only carbon but all the elements up to iron and nickel. These are mostly the even numbered elements.

The core of these stars becomes layered like an onion as each successive even element is fused into the next in the LADDER. The lightest elements form the outer layers and the heaviest the inner.

The inner layers are denser and hotter than the outer layers as is required by the increasing heat of fusion for heavier elements. Each layer is in HYDROSTATIC EQUILIBRIUM.