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Pretty much every element from lithium and up came from another star's death. The fusion reaction of a star goes from H -> He -> and on up the periodic table u
by di456 4y ago
Pretty much every element from lithium and up came from another star's death. The fusion reaction of a star goes from H -> He -> and on up the periodic table until the star implodes and/or goes supernova, creating gold and other heavier elements.
Most of the matter on our current planet has interstellar origins, including humans. We are all made of star dust!
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoIt is wild to consider that all the gold mined on earth can fit in a block measuring 22 cubic meters, and all of that gold has an origin in a supernova that pre-dates our sun.
- BenjiWiebe 4y ago12,600 cubic meters is what some quick googling and math suggests. Did you mean a 22-meter cube?
- moloch-hai 4y agoI think they attribute gold to neutron star collisions nowadays. All the gold ever mined arrived by meteorite; whatever was here at the start sank to the core. We are terribly lucky that gold sort-of dissolves in water and then is deposited in cracked quartz rock the water filters through. Sometimes it bonds with tellurium instead.
- filoleg 4y ago> 22 cubic meters This doesn't sound right. 22 cubic meters could be represented as a cube with an edge length of roughly 2.8 meters. There is no way there is less gold on the entire Earth than there is in every single bank heist movie that features gold bars.
- vecter 4y agoI think a mean a cube with a side of 22 meters.
- kzrdude 4y agoThat's a nice way to visualize the value of a gold ring or necklace I think. You have one small piece of that chunk of gold we've found.