Why the second law of thermodynamics is against forming stars.
(reading material, quite funny really: http://www.secondlaw.com)
The second law of thermodynamics states that all energy will spread out if it is not bonded in place by something(atoms and such)
For planets to form from solar dust there must be a bounding matter(some sort of glue or compression) to make them come together.
Since we are talking about the big void, with absolutely nothing in it except this big cloud of gas, where is the compression required to make it form in a star?
The second law states that all energy will spread out... guess what's happening with exploded stars....
ever seen a piece of paper that's been burned returning to it's original state?
All energy will spread out, even from the big bang start(assuming that's what happened) and the clouds of gas produced by the big bang will have spread out and diversed by the second law thusly making it impossible to form a gravitational rotation strong enough to attract atoms and to keep those together without falling apart.
Another provement of the second law of thermodynamics is that's practically proven that the universe is spreading outwards
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae261.cfm
It is nearly universally accepted that the universe began in a much more compact and ordered state than it does now. If the Big Bang hypothesis is right then the universe began in a state of zero entropy. We can observe the matter in the universe spreading out and cooling down (i.e. cosmic microwave background) even now. If we apply the second law of thermodynamics to this then we can see that the universe will continue to spread out and become less ordered and if it survives for long enough will eventually end in the 'Heat Death' when all of the matter has reached equilibrium and the entropy is at its highest. There may well be almost infinitesimal fluctuations but other than that the universe as we know it will be dead.
So really... I can't see that without nothing to bound the gasses of stars stars could come into existance, and then even planets.
Michael