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Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere
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Toehammer, is the phrase "we are all dead stars" original? It's seriously brilliant.
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That phrasing is original, but in grad school one of my fellow graduate students was an astronomer, and I asked him if it sounded logical that we (elements) all come from stars/nucleosynthesis, and he seemed to agree when I said that we must therefore be composed of dead stars.
unfortunately it seems I cannot claim "original" since I just did a google search and some song "we are all made of stars" comes up...
However, I think the idea that hydrogen has evolved to the point where it can think about itself is cooler
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One way I get people interested in physics is tell them this (totally original):
There are 4 forces in the universe, 2 nuclear, gravity, and electrodynamic. We do not feel nuclear forces, we never really feel gravity. When you are standing on the ground you "feel" gravity because of the force imparted on your feet by the electromagnetic force. Now what is happening between your feet and the ground? Electrons in the outer shells of the "ground" atoms are coming in close proximity to the electrons in your feet. In the ultramicroscopic boundary between the two, virtual photons are passed back and forth constantly. When you stand on the ground, you are standing on light. Everything in the universe that we experience as humans: chemical reactions, water careening down our esophagus, warmth of the sun, are all really just super intense and localized light fields.
Hehe, in this way, nobody is really blind