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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The universe is full of Legos. When the universe first started there were only little 1×1 blocks. But then Lego building factors called stars formed which put a bunch of the 1x1s together to make 2x1s 2x4s 1x8s and many many more variations. When the stars finish building they explode and shoot all their different shaped Legos into the universe. Eventually those newly formed Legos joined together to create the Lego structure that is your body
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Quite simple. [When this universe started](http://www.urbanagandenergy.org/soe/) in the Big Whoosh, Dark Energy flowed from the universe next door and created a new quantum field bubble in which was created the aboriginal hydrogen with the Evolution instruction set, the information for the growth and reproduction of a new cell in a living organism we call The Multiverse. That aboriginal hydrogen formed star within which fused all the other atoms of which everything is made, then distributed as it goes Supernova, then recombines to form Solar Systems with planets. Planets that form under the right conditions become wombs that can grow Life.
So you see, everything you see came from Stardust in a Supernova, and everything you are is a quantum field that creates with it, just like the quantum field that provided the instruction set that creates everything in the multiverse.
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.
Neil Degrasse Tyson has a great book that explains. Astrophysics for people in a hurry. It’s a version of science for us commoners
If you really want your mind blown then think about how everything that makes us up comes from a different star to the one we orbit. A nameless star or stars gone billions of years before Earth even formed. The only way to even see it and give it a name would be to travel billions of lightyears from Earth instantly and look back. Right now with the James Webb we are taking pictures of the stars that have potentially given rise to who knows how many civilisations.
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