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Ever wonder where everything that makes you who you are came from? Obviously from your parents, but where did they get the material to make you? And where did the material that makes them come from? Where did it all come from?
The answer is wonderfully cosmic. Every atom in your body indeed came from the exploded innards of an unimaginably massive ball of gas and dust. Forget Jesus, stars died so that you could live.
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss puts it in a poetic way that can give you much more perspective on life than a religion ever could.
This picture was actually posted onto Twitter by Miley Cyrus, which got her into a lot of hot water with her Christian fan-base. I say that if she is deciding to take an atheistic position, I’m all for it.
It’s a great quote, though Krauss’ exact words (from the video below) are:
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics:
You are all stardust.
You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements — the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution — weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
But the cosmic explanation goes even further than this. Physics not only tells us that your are made of star stuff, but also that everything that we see in the universe can come from nothing. Again, Krauss is on the case with a new book on that very subject. You can order Lawrence Krauss’ new book A Universe from Nothing, which explains why all that is something could indeed come from nothing, following the laws of physics (no god required), on Amazon.
You can also see the hour-long lecture that inspired that book below. It is one of the only lectures that I have ever seen go viral (watch it, it’s enlightening).
Enjoy.
I’ve enjoyed ur posts, thank you.
Great video and post, thank you! I rarely buy books, I move often and moving with books is not very practical…however I do use libraries and have A Universe From Nothing on hold. While I don’t like having to wait for it, I do find it encouraging that so many other library users are also wanting to read it. I’m happy though…I got a notice yesterday that Space Chronicles, which I also had on hold, is available for me to pick up tomorrow! This makes the wait SO much easier.
A Universe from Nothing is pretty dense for a lay book, but the insights are worth it.
The book sounds great. I just ordered it from Amazon. Great post!
But where did the stars that exploded come from?
Ultimately from the light elements that were created in the Big Bang, which itself was manifest from random quantum fluctuations in empty space.
“…stars died so that you could live.” Catchy ;) but it logically doesn’t exclude Jesus from anything. I mean, trees died so that I could live. So did bananas and cows. But that doesn’t exclude exploding stars, of course.
It’s more of a clever turn of phrase than an argument against the existence of Jesus. But all of your atoms were once in the ridiculously hot and dense core of a star. This is true of stars, but not necessarily of bananas or trees. The atoms that make you up may have been in a tree at some point, but every atom certainly was in a star.