Thanks Robert A. Cook, PE.
Posted on 09/10/2011 10:57:34 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Cheers!
How wonderful! Touch doooooooooooooown! Let us know when the covershot on Sports Illustrated is coming out! ;)
As for Because of tungsten's high melting point, it is not commercially feasible to cast tungsten ingots.
It wouldn't be--if they were valued as tungsten. If you're getting gold prices, though, it's a shoo-in.
I believe the jewelry is tungsten carbide—incidentally, the same thing used to make cutter inserts in some oilfield drill bits.
Careful how you hit that—it is very abraision resistant, but they will shatter if you whack them the wrong way.
True, though as a scientist, I live in constant awe and wonder at the things He has created. One cannot appreciate the art without appreciating the artisan, after all.
As a geologist, I am thankful daily for the wonderful puzzle that is this Earth, only a glimpse of the Mysteries of our Creator.
Unless you believe that supernovas and miracles are not mutually exclusive.
As a non scientist, I observe the Almightyness of God in His creation. He created us last after He had everything in place for us. He didn’t spare us one thing - gave it ALL. The tinest seeds have life in it. And no one has seen all He created and He saved the best for last - heaven. So He is my focus, first, last and always.
Since He created it all for us alone - it’s shows He wants the very best for us in every area of our life - from the rising to the setting. And I believe that speaks through His creation. It’s all about HIM and what He did for us. How’s that for love? It goes beyond the core of the earth. How many are interested in that puzzle? His love, the height, depth and width of it is unexplainable so we are to accept it by faith.
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek HIM”. Heb 11:6
Seek HIM, not His earth. And for doing so He rewards us - that’s amazing love!
When Feynman said there is a lot of room 'down' we might also apply that to back in temporal volume. We have a lot of temporal volume now, but in the early universe there was 'not so much'. I'm the crazyman who asserts that time has three variable expressions, similar to dimension space (linear-past; planar-present; volume-future and all past and present as a unit; from The Creator's perspective, all of variable expressions of time are occurring simultaneously).
Like you and P.S.Wesson (5D2T) I keep my mind open to additional expanded dimensions of time. Vafa's f-theory also allows for additional dimensions of time but compactified following Kaluza/Klein (string theory.)
And thank you, dear Robert A. Cook, PE - for that delightful jab at the gold/supernova theory!
BTW, the inflationary model includes an early phase where the universe expanded faster than the speed of light. The same research puts the era of reionization at about 400,000,000 years after inflation.
It could look like photons are ‘existing’ in one of the compacted dimensions of Time (I called them variable expressions of the larger called dimension Time).
You assume that my answer “supernovas” is the only answer.
Evidently I should have been more explicit: One source of Au is supernovas.
Evidently I should have been more explicit: One source of Au is supernovas.
I'm going to (politely) disagree with you there: “Conventional” astrophysics only recognized supernova building of the elements (above the Fe and Ni isotopes) and stellar fusion->collapsing star->layered “burning” for isotopes past the 3-alpha carbon “bottleneck”. And each step of that stellar fusion and collapse adds millions (billions ?) of years to each lifetime of each isotope that is created. Making it less and less and less likely that the elements were actually formed that way.
On a one-by-one basis, the "conventional theory" is correct: It works in the mathematics, it works at the individual atomic level of each individual binding energy and each individual decay rate and fusion cross-section, it works in the laboratory as each individual particle accelerator results as a new isotopes are deposited on the collectors one by one. And all of those steps are (by themselves) correct: we can establish that atoms (isotopes) are built up that way. I've made atoms that way myself. I've burned atoms that way myself.
But.
There must be some other process where by all of the isotopes and atoms we know by measurement are present on earth have been built. Created. Formed. Fused up. Or fused up and eventually fissioned back down.
We just cannot build enough isotopes in the "conventional wisdom" way, then transport those finished gold atoms across space between the stars fast enough to get enough of them here inside earth's crust to make a single ounce of gold. Much less a single Holy Grail. 8<)
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear Robert A. Cook, PE!
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Commodity Numbers FAQs
How much gold is there?
In the world there are currently somewhere between 120,000 and 140,000 tonnes of gold ‘above ground’. To visualise this imagine a single solid gold cube with edges of about 19 metres (about three metres short of the length of a tennis court). That’s all that has ever been produced.
Divided amongst the population of the world there are about 23 grams per person, about 1.2 cubic centimetres each. This equates to about $250 - $350 worth per person on Earth, depending on the current price.
Somewhere in the middle of that you forgot to carry the 1.
Everyone knows gold comes from pirates, yarrgh matey.
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