I get that all of the elements that make us are from stars but I just can’t wrap my head around how I am made of star dust… is this just a broader way of looking at the creation of elements in the periodic table or am I literally made of star dust.
Sorry if this was a stupid question!
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Ultimately, every element in your body was at one point floating around in space.
Just as our mother had to eat and drink to nourish herself, while we were growing inside of her, once we came out, we too had to consume food and liquid to survive.
All of the food that grows on Earth draws nutrients from the air, soil and water around it. That air, soil and water was created from the raw materials of our planet.
Everything around us, in nature, in the desert, in the city, and up in the air, all started as motes of star dust, out in the universe, millions of years ago. As our planet formed from star dust, gathering itself and condensing, cooling and growing, it collected more star dust to shape itself. Once it became a certain size, it developed it’s own magnetic field and gravity to keep things on it’s surface. As it continued to evolve, the core became condensed, the mantle and crust cooled, volcanic eruptions tossed the land, and as the dust shot into the sky, eventually an atmosphere formed.
Over time, millennia, the planet we see today came into being. All of which was created, shaped and adapted from….. star dust. As it was then, so it is now.
We ARE star dust.
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