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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There’s a bunch missing from Libya too. I’ve heard.
Probably those ubiquitous Fools Supernovas producing all that "gold".
So have you ever been inside one and experienced it from the inside or even in relative close proximity, or are you just speculating again?
God is going to use it to pave the streets in Heaven.
That’s why there’s so much of it.
The article indicates that this much gold being created by chance is highly unlikely. Does this indicate that the universe was not created completely out of randomness?
It’s relatively common because someday it will be used for paving....
It’s mine, and I’d appreciate it if y’all would return it, thanks.
The universe is incredible. Astronomy is wonderful and the scientists that figure these things out make all of our lives more interesting. Science is great. Math and science are the most important things
Somebody better tell William DeVane and the folks at Rosland Capital.
I know where to put all that gold. My address is ****.
There is also too many fungi, more than a million species, and no one knows where thy came from either. So what?
Yes, but science is not exact. Newton, Leibnitz, Descartes and the others were philosophers before they were scientists, because Pure Reason is the exact foundation on which all sciences derive both their origin and their standard of accuracy.
We are talking of forging inorganic dead materials, not organic lighter materials or life.
Obviously black holes and gold are the most inorganic and dead materials out there. So the article makes sense.
It’s not missing. I believe it’s been moved to the Clinton Foundation fot safe keeping.
uh,huh ... why just gold? the same “reasoning” would apply to ALL the heavy elements, not just gold ...
I knew a man named sarcasm, have you seen him?
Geese lay the stuff in eggs, f’Petessake. I thought everybody knew that.
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