Complexification Events are not Instantaneous

you took away the destination, the universe would have no point, so would never have been created.

In the grand scheme of time, in a universe billions of years old, it is easy to demark Complexification events as instantaneous. While that may be true on a broad scale, the truth is that things are a bit fuzzier when you look at them on a more granular scale. In fact, there is some overlap between complexity and Complexification that can get overlooked if we’re not careful.

Take, for instance, the epoch of the Atomic and Molecular. We might casually say that the Molecular Epoch occurred at the end of the Atomic Epoch because complexity could no longer continue on its path. While this is true, it whitewashes some interactions that we should bear in mind.

The periodic table at the end of the Atomic Epoch was not nearly filled out. Heavier elements simply did not exist because they required processes that didn’t exist in order for them to be made. It wasn’t until well past this epoch that stars had both been born and died until heavier elements could be produced.

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