COSMIC DUST? WE ALREADY KNEW THAT
Posted on 07/27/2017 9:08:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Every one of us contains alien atoms that originated in a galaxy far, far away, a new study suggests.
Scientists have discovered that up to half the matter making up our galaxy, the Milky Way, used to belong to other clusters of stars.
The sun, the Earth, and even our own bodies probably contain a large proportion of this galaxy-hopping material, which migrated to our part of the universe across vast expanses of space.
Lead researcher Dr Daniel Angles-Alcazar, from Northwestern University in the US, said: “Given how much of the matter out of which we formed may have come from other galaxies, we could consider ourselves space travellers or extra-galactic immigrants.
“It is likely that much of the Milky Way’s matter was in other galaxies before it was kicked out by a powerful wind, travelled across intergalactic space and eventually found its new home in the Milky Way.”
The findings are based on supercomputer simulations of galaxy formation so complex they required the equivalent of several million hours of continuous number crunching.
By tracking flows of matter in the simulations, the team spotted signs of gassy material migrating from smaller galaxies to larger galaxies such as the Milky Way, where it coalesced to form stars.
The gas was blown across space by powerful “galactic winds” – streams of high-speed charged particles – over periods of several billion years.
Currently, the nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way is Andromeda, which is an unimaginably distant 2.5 million light years away and on a collision course with our own home galaxy.
But the Milky Way is also surrounded by smaller “companion” galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds, that are much closer.
Professor Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere, also from Northwestern University, who co-authored the research published in the journal Monthly Notices
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Half of mine come from a Snicker’s........................
“Can I buy some pot from you?”
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden
CS&Y and Joni..................
Well, I can see why they’d think Hillary Clinton was made up of “gassy material”.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock
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We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
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...wait, what were we looking for?
Not sure I buy this. Perhaps in the ancient universe when galaxies were closer some of this happened. Our nearest full-sized galaxy is Andromeda which is 2.5 million light years away. The galaxies are just so far apart for much matter of any significance to move between galaxies.
That explains O’muslim’s alien citizenship
All major galaxies, like our own, are conglomerations of smaller dwarf galaxies that merged over time.
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That’s funny.
A lot of us knew this back in '72.
Michael Moore is what astronomers call a “gas giant.”
God is outside and inside the galaxy, always eternal, always knowing. It’s no secret where these atoms come from unless you’re willfully blind and ignorant.
Who said “we are made of starstuff?”
What is new is a simulation that demonstrates how the process might have taken place. The basic idea has been out there for some time:
1) The universe began with a singular event called the Big Bang.
2) Initially all or almost all matter consisted of hydrogen (1 proton and 1 election). As these gathered together to form the first generation of stars, helium (2 + 2) started to be form through fusion.
3) As these first generation stars got old, some of them started to “burn the ash,” that is, to fuse hydrogen and helium into heavier atoms; e.g., carbon.
4) When these early stars exploded, yet heavier atoms were formed, and all of their material - including in particular the heavier atoms - was emitted in the explosion so that next generation stars include heavier atoms. We are probably on a third generation star system.
5) In our star system, much of the heavier stuff was gathered in the disk emanating about the center. Our planet in particular consists largely of iron or maybe iron-and-nickel (our core), a rocky crust, oceans of liquid water, and a thick atmosphere composed mostly of nitrogen and oxygen.
So, yes, a lot of what we humans are consists of material originating in first and perhaps also second generation stars that went nova. All of this enormously long period of time was necessary for a planet such as ours to be formed.
All of this is subsumed in Genesis 1:1. By Genesis 1:2 we’re on the surface of the early planet Earth, a much different place than it is today.
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