Have all of us been here since the dawn of time as little Atoms?

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Have all of us been here since the dawn of time as little Atoms?

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Not exactly.

If I have 300 wooden boards that have always existed since the dawn of time… I take those boards and build myself a nice pool deck and I name it “Bob.” Does that mean that Bob has always existed since the dawn of time? No, of course not. Bob didn’t exist until I built him. The wood I used to build him is old, but it couldn’t be considered “Bob” because they weren’t in the configuration of a pool deck yet, and I wasn’t around to name it yet.

Particles that we are made of are billions of years old, but we ourselves are not that old.