Posted on 10/01/2020 9:43:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Gold is an element, which means you can't make it through ordinary chemical reactions though alchemists tried for centuries. To make the sparkly metal, you have to bind 79 protons and 118 neutrons together to form a single atomic nucleus. That's an intense nuclear fusion reaction. But such intense fusion doesn't happen frequently enough, at least not nearby, to make the giant trove of gold we find on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system. And a new study has found the most commonly-theorized origin of gold collisions between neutron stars can't explain gold's abundance either. So where's the gold coming from? There are some other possibilities, including supernovas so intense they turn a star inside out. Unfortunately, even such strange phenomena can't explain how blinged out the local universe is, the new study finds.
Neutron star collisions build gold by briefly smashing protons and neutrons together into atomic nuclei, then spewing those newly-bound heavy nuclei across space. Regular supernovas can't explain the universe's gold because stars massive enough to fuse gold before they die -- which are rare -- become black holes when they explode, said Chiaki Kobayashi, an astrophysicist at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study. And, in a regular supernova, that gold gets sucked into the black hole.
During a magneto-rotational supernova, a dying star spins fast and is wracked by such strong magnetic fields that it turns itself inside out as it explodes. As it dies, the star shoots white-hot jets of matter into space. And because the star has been turned inside out, its jets are chock full of gold nuclei. Stars that fuse gold at all are rare. Stars that fuse gold then spew it into space like this are even rarer.
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Too much verbiage. Bottom line-it is a product of supernovas. Stars of a certain mass will make more than others
I was going to say heaven was leaking...
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We here at the Lab know.
We know where most of it went, too.
We keep it stored securely in the basement vault, resting on bedrock at 40.7084o N, 74.0087o W.
Never touch the stuff.....make my own.
Do yall know the aliens came here to earth thousands of years ago and made us from monkeys to be slave labor to mine the gold they needed to save their own planets atmosphere from effects of their own alien made global warming? Its a fact! I saw it on TV, you know, the guy with the weird hair and unpronounceable last name.
Fascinating speculations there. I guess the science is not so settled on ...... lots and lots of things.
So now that they know how to create many elements can they do it in a cost efficient manner?
Mine comes fresh off the grill.
The terrifying thing is that they’re all linked underground by a vast mycorrhizal network.
One huge global organism.
/I, for one, welcome our new fungal overlords
This thread is devolving.
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Does this indicate that the universe was not created completely out of randomness?
Obviously, there is exactly as much AU in the universe as there “should be”. We just don’t understand the universe very well.
>>There is also too many fungi, more than a million species, and no one knows where thy came from either. So what?<<
I am heavily invested in fungus bullion.
I passed gas once that turned my drawers inside out. Is that. Supernova?
It did leave a black hole
Well,at least we know this much is true!
Interesting that it’s so valued in this life but it will be under our new bodies feet in the next. The ways of God are not those of man.
Our Lord put it here. Simple explanation.
LMAO! I don’t care what anyone says, that’s funny!!!
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