• someguy3@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    That’s actually an interesting question, how many of the atoms we have today are directly from the big bang?

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      1 year ago

      All of them :)

      Edit: Or none depending on how you see it. No atoms were formed directly at the Big Bang because too hot, but all atoms’ existence is a pretty direct consequence of it

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        1 year ago

        If that’s the case I would say none then. The constitute parts aren’t the item. (How many ships are produced by a forest? None, we use the wood to make the ships.)

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      All of them? At what point do we consider new atom formation to not be a part of the big bang? Isn’t it still ongoing, at least until expansion and atomic formation stops?

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        1 year ago

        I would consider a sun forming new atoms to not be atoms from the big bang.