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Dec. 9th, 2008
Sing it, Delenn.
Prompted by a couple of discussions, I was reminded of how I've always loved knowing that supernovas are the major source of the heavier elements, not least iron; our planet is likely made of atoms created in a star's death-throes, and thus so are we. I love this idea; I love imagining the atoms of sulfur and iron and calcium within us forming in the cooling debris that had once been a massive, seething, radiant star (the nuclei are made in the star, but it would take some cooling before they could really form atoms, I would think). It would really make a great poem, how that transformed star-ash coalesced into a wet rocky planet where chemistry developed into biology and thence into sentience.
Maybe I'll write it one day, or, more likely, maybe I'll give this plotbunny to a more talented poet than I am, of whom I have several on my friendslist alone. Maybe someone else has already written this poem, and if so hopefully someone will point me to it.
Prompted by a couple of discussions, I was reminded of how I've always loved knowing that supernovas are the major source of the heavier elements, not least iron; our planet is likely made of atoms created in a star's death-throes, and thus so are we. I love this idea; I love imagining the atoms of sulfur and iron and calcium within us forming in the cooling debris that had once been a massive, seething, radiant star (the nuclei are made in the star, but it would take some cooling before they could really form atoms, I would think). It would really make a great poem, how that transformed star-ash coalesced into a wet rocky planet where chemistry developed into biology and thence into sentience.
Maybe I'll write it one day, or, more likely, maybe I'll give this plotbunny to a more talented poet than I am, of whom I have several on my friendslist alone. Maybe someone else has already written this poem, and if so hopefully someone will point me to it.
