fredag 7. september 2018

Gold is older than the Sun

by Robert Wood – Sociologist
Your gold is the oldest object you possess. The golden metal is older than the Earth. It is 100 million years older than our sun. In short, the gold in your wedding ring is 4.7 billion years old.

“Research has provided further clues about how the solar system building blocks came to be. In 2014, for instance, scientists in Australia showed that some heavy metals, such as gold, silver and platinum on Earth and in meteorites, arrived in the neighborhood some 100 million years before the birth of the sun. A portion of the rare earth elements, such as neodymium, arrived in the sun’s gestational environment some 30 million years before it formed. The sun therefore incubated for a lengthy period with an upper limit of 30 million years.”  – Scientific American. June 2018 – The Scecret Life of the Sun

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