All gold comes from the death of neutron stars. (Or supernova events.)
A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. Neutron stars pack one-and-a-half times the mass of the sun into a ball only 10 miles across. A teaspoon of material from their surface would weigh 10 million tons. Many stars in the universe are in binary systems – two stars bound by gravity and orbiting around each other. A pair of massive stars might eventually end their lives as a pair of neutron stars. The neutron stars orbit each other for hundreds of millions of years. But Einstein says that their dance cannot last forever. Eventually, they must collide.
This stellar explosion creates gold.
I love it when people talk about how the value of gold will crater when we begin mining gold on the floor of the ocean or on asteroids. Right now the price of gold barely covers the all in cost of digging a hole in the ground, refining it, and minting into a bar or coin. What will deep sea or space mining cost? Heh!
All gold comes from the death of neutron stars.
A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. Neutron stars pack one-and-a-half times the mass of the sun into a ball only 10 miles across. A teaspoon of material from their surface would weigh 10 million tons. Many stars in the universe are in binary systems – two stars bound by gravity and orbiting around each other. A pair of massive stars might eventually end their lives as a pair of neutron stars. The neutron stars orbit each other for hundreds of millions of years. But Einstein says that their dance cannot last forever. Eventually, they must collide.
This stellar explosion creates gold.
I love it when people talk about how the value of gold will crater when we begin mining gold on the floor of the ocean or on asteroids. Right now the price of gold barely covers the all in cost of digging a hole in the ground, refining it, and minting into a bar or coin. What will deep sea or space mining cost? Heh!
All gold comes from the death of neutron stars.
Neutron stars pack one-and-a-half times the mass of the sun into a ball only 10 miles across. A teaspoon of material from their surface would weigh 10 million tons. Many stars in the universe are in binary systems – two stars bound by gravity and orbiting around each other. A pair of massive stars might eventually end their lives as a pair of neutron stars. The neutron stars orbit each other for hundreds of millions of years. But Einstein says that their dance cannot last forever. Eventually, they must collide.
This collision creates gold.
I love it when people talk about how the value of gold will crater when we begin mining gold on the floor of the ocean or on asteroids. Right now the price of gold barely covers the all in cost of digging a hole in the ground, refining it, and minting into a bar or coin. What will deep sea or space mining cost? Heh!