As the gas cloud gradually contracts, any slight rotation of the cloud gets amplified, just as a figure skater spins faster when she pulls her arms closer to her body. The centrifugal forces from this ever-faster rotation prevents gravity from crushing the gas cloud down to a point—instead, it’s crushed into a pizza shape, just as when the pizza baker near my old elementary school spun his dough to flatten it out. The main ingredients of all such cosmic pizzas are hydrogen and helium gas, but if the ingredient list also contains heavier atoms such as carbon, oxygen, and silicon, then while the
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Wouldn't This mean that depending on the distance from the sun the planets should made off of heavier elements primarily? As if the pizza was a giant centrifuge, splitting the components as it spins. However, that is not the case
