Posted on 11/24/2004 1:22:08 PM PST by Phsstpok
Actually, many elements are formed in stars long before they go nova or supernova. Once hydrogen fuel is depleted, stars start fusing helium into carbon and oxygen, then those elements are subsequently fused into even heavier elements such as nitrogen and silicon, finally culminating in iron. All elements heavier than iron are formed in supernova explosions. The fact that Earth is rich in those heavy elements is proof that the primordial dust cloud of our solar system was enriched by supernova explosions, which also probably started the initial gravitational collapse of the dust cloud.
Yeah, These are the same guys that interpret the constitution to BAN GOD from the public discourse!
I have always been under impression that EARTH itself was Supernova Debris.
You know, creationists have been claiming the death of evolution for more than a century now. I guess y'all assume you might be right one day.
Tens of thousands of biologists are not holding their breaths, however.
"Impossible! The earth is only 3,000 years old.< /creationism >"
Creationism is a much wider field and encompasses far more views and theories than that. Earth being changed to become more receptive to human life as a result of super nova matter distribution could fall into both progressive and theistic views of Creationism.
The Imminent Demise of Evolution. (The endless crisis.)
It wasn't really a Supernova it was 69' Nova SS with a 454. At 5500 rpm a rod went through the side of the block, allowing some pieces of cast iron, Valvoline 20-50w and Prestone Anti-freeze to be expelled into the atmospere and along the side of the road. Also causing a noticable decrease in forward velocity. But no scientific facts of change in human evolution, except maybe on not using old connecting rods in a high h.p. engine.
..predicting the past is no trick.
Just need to know the bias of who's doing the 'predicting' of what has already happened.
The curve of binding energy. :-)
Sorry if I misrepresented the creationist viewpoint.
I was trying to be funny. (Dang, failed again!)
Anyway, I believe the Bible. God did it!
Supergiant stars have short life in cosmic terms, like 100 million years. Smaller the star, the longer itn will live because it is burning less fuel. It is likely that billions of years ago, there were supernovas not too far from our Solar System. When supergian stars exploded, they produce heavy elements like iron to uranium. When stars have iron appearing, it is sign it will start to die and go supernova. If a supernova happened near us, we would be bombarded with deadly gamma and cosmic rays. It would kill almost all life on this planet.
Not exactly true, (other than the man-made elements) there are fusions that create elements
just above iron, but obviously a pittance compared to iron.
I agree. It is impossible to date anything with any type of isotope unless you have something that you can prove was made at the date you are looking at. A million years, a billion years or 50 years... it does not make any difference unless you already have a sample that was also made at that time. This is all intellectual BS.
I think ancient SUV debris was also found in the rock layers.
The fusion of iron consumes more energy than it releases, so it doesn't occur except in the case of supernova explosions, with their enormous neutron flux bombarding iron atoms to form heavier elements.
I've heard that heavier elements can form in the accretion disks of black holes, but that's the exception that proves the rule.
What where you referring to?
Beef eating SUV owners.
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