re: The elements
Aubrey Matthews (paubrey@castles.com)
Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:08:44 -0700
>> >RJV 4/2
>> >Aubrey is brain dead. I wonder if he'd do a little calculation for me.
>> >(Chances are he can't....)
>> >
>> >The earth is about 5 billion years old. Any Neptunium that would be on
>> >this planet today that nature formed would be at least that old. (Most
>> >likely older since the solar system was around with the matter in it
>> >before the planets were formed...) Aubrey, how much Neptinium would have
>> >had to be present 5 billion years ago on earth for 1 gram of it to be
>> >present on earth today? (Anyone else remember me going over this with
>> >Aubrey concerning element 111 (which does exist and is on modern periodic
>> >tables) and it's 1/2 life?)
>> >
>> >Drain Bamaged. But at least Aubrey's postings aren't sermons. Magill and
>> >Woodcock would learn a bit from reading Aubrey's postings. Isn't that
>> >sad?
>>
>>
>Aubrey 4/3
>You missed the point. That element was created artificially and cannot be
>found anywhere else in the unverse and chance missed the chance to create
>it. Spelling seems to be a problem here so don't focus too much on me. I
>think "Miracle now knows how to spell protein thanks to me. See if element
>111 is recongnized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
>Aubrey
>
>RJV 4/7
>Does Aubrey understand how the elements are created in space? Nope...
>So, now it is time for a brief lesson in the creation of elements...
>Elements are created by nuclear fusion. However, stars have a limit on
>which elements they can create by this method before they go supernova.
>When they go supernova, they create a myriad of elements - including
>elements that they cannot produce as a star. Now, these elements have
>half lifes and some are around for billions of years, and some are around
>for millions of years, and some are around for only a brief period of
>time. But, all the elements can be made by a star going supernova. If
>any neptinium WAS formed, it wouldn't be too long before it all decayed
>and thus couldn't be found. Aubrey doesn't seem to understand this.
>Perhaps, if he would calculate how much neptinium would have had to be
>present on earth for one gram of it to be here on earth today, he would
>understand why we have to MAKE it. (He should also ponder the immense
>difficulty of finding one gram of this stuff in the entirety of earths
>volume...)
>
>As for element 111
Miracle,
Supernovas are a continuing event in the universe yet no Neptunium or its
isotopes are found in those supernovas. Supernovas of today are no different
than the supernovas of the past. Neptunium was discovered in 1940 by Edwin
M. McMillan and P.H. Abelson at the University of California. Neptunium is
formed by a process that doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe and
that is, by bombarding uranium with slow moving neutrons. Supernova or
otherwise, if Neptunium could be formed by supernovas then its isotope 237
would be found since its half-life is around 2 million years and supernovas
are being observed today. Go shop in the universe for Einsteinium and see
where your search will take you. Right back here on Earth. Check out
artificially created elements 104 to 108. They existed on the tables in 1993
but the International Union of Applied Chemistry didn't recognized them in
the same league as the others. Remember, those elements were created
artificially also and 'chance' missed the chance to create them too. The
matter and the process that created Neptunium didn't exist at the time of
creation and that is a scientific fact, so we know that Neptunium didn't
exist at the time of the "Big Bang." 1 gram or many. So the notion that
chance created the elements with all of the time and matter involved since
creation of the universe, missed the chance to create the elements mentioned
above. So the argument that Neptunium could have been formed billions of
years ago around the time of creation or by supernovas is MOOT because the
process that created Neptunium exist only on Earth and has not been found
anywhere else in the universe. God created the initial elements needed for
you to exist. Anything else was created by man and is not important to life
in the universe or Earth as far as its existence is concern.
Aubrey
World Book Encyclopedia, (Elements)