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Re: There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from.

By: ribit in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 03 Oct 20 6:24 AM | 21 view(s)
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...so you guys are in agreement that it's not the "golden goose" ?




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Re: There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from.
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Sat, 03 Oct 20 3:27 AM 		Msg. 06862 of 60014

Beldin:

Re: “Something is raining gold across the universe. But no one knows what it is.”It's an interesting question.

The early universe was populated by massive stars that burned through their hydrogen in a scant 2-3 million years, went nova and scattered heavier elements throughout space. Smaller stars coalesced from the debris, lived their lives and again exploded, spreading still more heavy elements. Our sun is [at least] a third generation star, and it was thought until recently that this process of star formation, life and death created all the heavy elements like gold. I gather that in the last few years, that theory has been set aside in favor of an as yet unknown phenomenon. It looks as if novas and supernovas don't really create very much gold, and other phenomena such as colliding neutron stars aren't common enough to be responsible either.

One thing I wonder about is the period of inflation that happened in the first trillionth or so of a second (more like ten to the minus 34th of a second) of our universe's life. Much of the universe's volume came to be in that scant period. We know that nothing moves faster than light, but while cosmic inflation was occurring, the fabric of space-time grew WAAAAAAAY faster. The force exerted on whatever matter and energy there was had to be unimaginable, and I wonder if some of the unexplained features of our universe didn't result from THAT.

Just a thought.

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