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Author Topic:   We ain't made of what we thought
Taq
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Message 6 of 23 (816247)
08-01-2017 12:03 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by Stile
08-01-2017 11:04 AM


Stile writes:
1. I was always (uneducated-ly) under the assumption that all atoms/elements we see today were created from previous long-ago star explosions and such? Not like... a few star-generations ago.. but loooooooooong ago.
The atoms we see today did come from a previous supernova explosion, but half the matter, according to this study, that made up the star which went supernova came from other galaxies.

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Message 14 of 23 (816454)
08-04-2017 5:20 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by Tanypteryx
08-02-2017 12:43 PM


Re: Why stop there?
Tanypteryx writes:
Why the one million light year boundary?
Material is being kicked out of galaxies at a limited speed, so the age of the universe probably puts the limit on how far away the material can travel. Specifically, the boundary probably comes from the supercomputer simulations.

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Message 23 of 23 (816681)
08-09-2017 11:02 AM
Reply to: Message 17 by Phat
08-06-2017 2:08 AM


Re: Mind Over Matter
Phat writes:
I, as a staunch monotheist, am emphasizing what it is that really makes us human...no matter where the bricks in our house came from.
I would say that part of what makes us human is curiosity, a sense of adventure, and the seeking of knowledge. We are now answering questions that we thought we could never answer just 1,000 years ago. We have learned more about the universe in the last 50 years than the entire history of mankind before that. I would consider that to be one of the greatest human achievements.

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