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That one has cosmic significance (so I understand); that island is what choked off big bang nucleosynthesis from continuing beyond helium. The universe would be
by perihelions 2y ago
That one has cosmic significance (so I understand); that island is what choked off big bang nucleosynthesis from continuing beyond helium. The universe would be unrecognizable if there were a stable He-5 or Li-5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis#Heavy_elements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis#Heavy... ("Big Bang nucleosynthesis produced very few nuclei of elements heavier than lithium due to a bottleneck: the absence of a stable nucleus with 8 or 5 nucleons...")