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 Ways 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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“This is too much!”
Oh, wow! gee! I’m impressed! NOT.
Articles like this get to meet the underside of untrained puppies.
Before there was an Earth, there were atoms. None of those atoms were on Earth. Then there was Earth, and every last $hitfaced atom came from someplace NOT on Earth! Wow! can you imagine? Non-Earth atoms!
In other news, there is a 100% chance that you are breathing in at least one of the oxygen molecules that went through Stalin’s lungs! Are you impressed? Gonna become a dictator?
Carl Sagan in "Cosmos".
Could have saved all that time and money on an education by just picking up a bible and reading it...
Yes, he is the most prominent fairly recent user of that weighty phrase. But I was surprised to learn that others said it before him.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/22/starstuff/
Thanks for the info ... very interesting!
And who paid for that "study"? Of what benefit is it to any of us? Why do we need to pay for "suggests" instead of hard answers?
Excellent step-by-step list of what's believed to have occurred. And identifying that it's all in Genesis 1:1 was good for getting me to think about the wonder contained in those few powerful words.
Right, i bet they know all about it.
What a joke.
...and this just came in from the East Anglia Science Department.
powerful galactic winds
A Mighty Wind: braaaaaaap~~~
Mine are 1/3 pasta, 1/3 sauce and 1/3 meat.
Many of you have probably heard of the “Paracas Skulls”. Over three hundred elongated skulls dated to 2000 years ago that were discovered in Peru.
These skulls have some distinguishing characteristics that are different from normal human skulls. Now there are DNA test results that conclude they have some genomes that do not match normal humans and also they have some genomes that are characteristic of the Middle East and Egypt.
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