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[Watchmen] Why did Dr Manhattan become God instead of just dying?

When he was initially disintegrated, why did he become a god instead of just staying dead like those other people q he o got disintegrated?  Is there anything special about him?  

Is it because he's a supergenius?  Does that mean any supergenius put through the machine would become a god too?
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He's smart, he had the scientific underpinnings of what happened to him, and he was trained in traditional watchmaking as a kid.  Somehow, he saw how every part of him was disintegrated in that moment, and his consciousness was then able to rebuild itself using the fundamental energy of the universe.

Chances are anyone else that would (and probably *was*) put through the same process just got killed.