Posted on 09/27/2014 3:49:17 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
To find out, scientists turned to chemistry. Here on Earth, about one in every 3,000 molecules of water is made with a deuterium atom instead of a hydrogen atom.
A deuterium atom is similar to a hydrogen atom except that its nucleus contains a proton and a neutron, instead of a lone proton. (Both atoms also contain a single electron.) That makes deuterium twice as heavy as hydrogen, which is why water molecules made with deuterium atoms (HDO) are known as heavy water.
At the time that our sun was born, the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen throughout the universe was about 1 deuterium molecule to every 100,000 hydrogen molecules. But for water in the solar system, the proportion is significantly higher.
Water with a high deuterium content can only form under specific conditions. The environment needs to be very cold, and there needs to be enough energy to power the reaction that binds hydrogen, deuterium and oxygen. Over the past several decades, researchers have come up with two possible and competing explanations of how this heavy water took up residence in our solar system.
The first is that it came from interstellar water ice that formed in the huge cloud of gas that gave birth to our sun and the solar system. Stellar nurseries can be found throughout the universe, and they are rich in both heavy water and regular water (H20), the researchers said.
The second possibility is that the violence and energy of star birth ripped apart that interstellar water, and its building blocks got reprocessed within the protoplanetary disk that would eventually coalesce into the planets and other heavenly bodies.
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>> At the time that our sun was born, the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen throughout the universe was about 1 deuterium molecule to every 100,000 hydrogen molecules.
And you know this how, Deborah?
Well, I’m guessing that she is not relying on something somebody wrote down in a book a few thousand years ago.
This is a hypothesis - maybe even a tentative conclusion - based on the determination of facts via measurement and experimentation, and a certain amount of speculation based on experience and other facts known to the researcher, also based on measurements and experimentation.
Does tis sort of thing make you nervous?
Just add the koolaid.
> Well, Im guessing that she is not relying on something
> somebody wrote down in a book a few thousand years ago.
No, she is relying on conjecture masquerading as hypothesis.
The sun was born? Who's the father? Mother?
Uh. Didn’t the sun come first?
That’s what I thought...
Not according to Genesis 1.
She doesn't know how old the Oxygen is.
Genesis was a word of mouth tale, eventually written down by men who had a limited understanding of the universe as we now know it.
If the book has sufficient supernatural creds, it might stand to be taken seriously.
Anyone who follows its accounts of early earth will see that there are at least four past eras described (not that there can’t be more). The initial creation era, the edenic era, the pre-deluge era, and the post-deluge era.
Scotty could not change the laws of physics, but Scotty was not God.
That is what arrogant moderns who think they can contain all wisdom in their so called scientific hypotheses, tend to say.
I read that and it says that the Earth existed before the Sun.
This is science?
“Genesis was a word of mouth tale, eventually written down by men who had a limited understanding of the universe as we now know it.”
No it isn’t it is word for word what God Almighty wanted written down.
It might not be the clearest account of the theory.
It’s positing that water which later appeared on earth was of pre-solar creation.
The theories of human science come and go. It wasn’t all that long ago that only as a curiosity were people talking about a strange stuff called dark matter. Now it has finally reached orthodoxy that this dark matter is scattered throughout the universe. What happened? Well, it was a glorified vote.
I believe in our Creator. I also believe our Creator invented gravity.
Planets only form after gravity reduces mass into a star. Only then can planets form from the castoffs of mass.
Our creator invented math and physics. By that we discover our origins.
And it is not just a permissive will. It is a desirous will; actually a love story. Humans complain about there being no love in the world, but they cling tightly to their hate.
I see this attitude a lot. “Oh, God gave you brains... use them.”
Trouble is, they are missing the grander sweep of scripture as they so proudly play with those brains in hatred towards God.
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