by Ann » Sun Apr 26, 2015 4:30 am
hoohaw wrote:Chris Peterson wrote:tomatoherd wrote:Say, how is there still so much unused hydrogen in the universe, at an alleged age of ~14 billion years, to have fresh star formation continuing?
Because there was a lot of hydrogen created. And only a small fraction of it ever ended up in stars.
In fact, if we did not exist, we would be certain that we could not conceivably exist in this empty, seemingly purposeless, frankly stupid, universe. And yet we DO exist. Hmmmm.......
Hoohaw, the next time you're having an ice cold one, or a golden pizza, or watch a favorite movie or a glorious sunset, or do or see anything else that you like - be thankful to the Big Bang for creating all this hydrogen, so that the tiniest fraction of it could go into creating the Sun, but only after previous generations of stars had recycled the hydrogen and cooked up the rubble that later went into creating your ice cold one and other nice things, including yourself. Be thankful to this "empty" (not!), purposeless (yes, I think so), frankly stupid (c'mon!) universe. It has given you all the pleasure you've ever had in your life!
And in any case... for almost fourteen billion years none of us existed in this universe, and in the blink of an eye and for as long as the universe will exist after that, none of us will exist. And maybe, probably, some time in the utterly inconceivably far future, the universe itself may cease to exist. That's life - and death. You don't blame your mama for giving birth to you, do you?
Ann
[quote="hoohaw"][quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="tomatoherd"]Say, how is there still so much unused hydrogen in the universe, at an alleged age of ~14 billion years, to have fresh star formation continuing?[/quote]
Because there was a lot of hydrogen created. And only a small fraction of it ever ended up in stars.[/quote]
In fact, if we did not exist, we would be certain that we could not conceivably exist in this empty, seemingly purposeless, frankly stupid, universe. And yet we DO exist. Hmmmm.......[/quote]
Hoohaw, the next time you're having an ice cold one, or a golden pizza, or watch a favorite movie or a glorious sunset, or do or see anything else that you like - be thankful to the Big Bang for creating all this hydrogen, so that the tiniest fraction of it could go into creating the Sun, but only after previous generations of stars had recycled the hydrogen and cooked up the rubble that later went into creating your ice cold one and other nice things, including yourself. Be thankful to this "empty" (not!), purposeless (yes, I think so), frankly stupid (c'mon!) universe. It has given you all the pleasure you've ever had in your life!
And in any case... for almost fourteen billion years none of us existed in this universe, and in the blink of an eye and for as long as the universe will exist after that, none of us will exist. And maybe, probably, some time in the utterly inconceivably far future, the universe itself may cease to exist. That's life - and death. You don't blame your mama for giving birth to you, do you?
Ann