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Originally Posted by Buzz
Star stuff? Your a regular genius, I digress.
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FYI... He's completely correct. You've never heard that saying before?
The molecules that make up our body, and everything on Earth for that matter, were created in the 10 million degree furnaces in the center of stars. Everything on Earth is carbon-based life. When the universe was really young, the only elements that existed were hydrogen, helium, and a couple others.
After millions of years, stars formed. The hydrogen and helium atoms that stars are made of were smashed and heated under the insane pressure and heat in the center of a star. Smashing those simple atoms together, makes heavier more complicated elements through a process called nucleosynthesis. Eventually, those stars run out of hydrogen to burn, and starts burning the heavier elements that were already created, which then creates even heavier elements. Elements like oxygen, iron, carbon, and others. After this process goes on for billions of years, the star eventually explodes into a supernova. When that happens, all those new elements the star created are dumped into the universe. Which eventually over a long time allows things like Earth to form from the carbon and other elements that were created. And in turn, humans.
The universe is in us. We are part of it, not just living in it.