THE STORY OF STARDUST (ATOMS) PART 2
Peter R. Solomon
We advanced the time to 5 billion years after the Big Bang.
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8.8 BILLION
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Star size
Wow, there are more exploding stars. I see lots of Supernovas.
We advanced the time to 5 billion years after the Big Bang.
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2nd generation star supernovas
8.8 BILLION
5,000,000,000 YEARS
Star size
The supernovas of 2nd-generation stars produced all the biggest atoms.
Yeah, but there is also another source of the biggest atoms.
A Quadrillion Tons of Gold
Now we have all the elements in the periodic table needed to form Planet Earth. How many tons of atoms would we need?
It is the result of two neutron stars merging. You can see it in the video.
TIMELINE FOR THE STORY OF STARDUST (ATOMS)
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About 9 billion years after the Big Bang,
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the solar system and planet earth form
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the Solar System with Planet Earth formed.
Our sun is a 3rd-generation star.
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first life appears on earth
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10.1 billion YeaRS
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At about 10 billion years after the Big Bang,
life
begins forming on Earth.
Life started with single cell bacteria.
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first life appears on earth
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At about 10 billion years after the Big Bang,
life
begins forming on Earth.
The dinosaurs became dominant about 230 million years ago.
But All the land dinosaurs died
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land dinosaurs become extinct
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when a huge asteroid
hit Planet Earth 66 million
years ago.
human beings evolved on Planet Earth
Then about 200 Thousand years ago,
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humans appear on earth
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13.8 billion YeaRS
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HUMANS APPEAR ON EARTH
66 mILLION
13.8 billion YeaRS
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that was once in the body of the Last T-Rex.
of Albert Einstein.
And Einstein and us kids have STARDUST
And us kids have STARDUST that was once in the body
How did Einstein get Dinosaur Atoms?
Millions of years ago, the Last T-Rex exhaled Carbon Dioxide molecules made of one carbon and two oxygen ATOMS.
And 66 million years later, lots of that T-Rex’s Carbon Dioxide molecules were still in the atmosphere and used to make an apple.
Einstein ate the apple. By eating food, Einstein collected lots of Carbon ATOMS. Guess how many he got from just that one T-Rex.
1.6 MIN
Each of us has 5000 Trillion Carbon ATOMS from each T-Rex.
And 300 Trillion Carbon ATOMS once in the body of Albert Einstein.
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land dinosaurs become extinct
66 mILLION
13.7 billion YeaRS
normal
And that is the amazing story of how we are made of Stardust.
The next slide has a timeline summary of the events.
And there are some more videos about ATOMS too.
TIMELINE FOR THE STORY OF STARDUST (ATOMS)
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How Big are My Atoms?
1.1 MIN
Hey, Milo. How big would you get if all your atoms became the size of sand grains?
1.7 MIN
How Many Atoms do I Have?
Hey, Johari. How big a beach could I make if I had as many sand grains as the atoms in my body?
What is Aluminum Made Of?
Hey, Johari. What are we standing on?
It’s a crystal made of aluminum atoms.
What Determines the Densities of Materials?
Hey, Milo. Why does the same size piece of aluminum weigh less than platinum?
It’s because of their density, Neddy.
THE END
The Stardust Mystery Project was funded in part by grants from The National Science Foundation (grant number #1738291)
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