Was all of the gold in the universe created during the Big Bang process?
unlike diamonds that can be manufactured in a laboratory
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answers:
Jeffrey K say: No. No gold was made in the big bang. Only hydrogen and helium were made then. All gold was made in the supernova explosion of stars. That is the only thing with enough energy to force protons and neutrons together to create a gold nucleus.
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Clive say: Certainly not. Only hydrogen and maybe a little helium and lithium were created immediately after the Big Bang. Everything else was made by nuclear fusion in stars, as far up the periodic table as iron. Any heavier elements such as gold require a huge energy input to make and are made by nuclear fusion in supernova explosions. So apart from any theories about colliding neutron stars, it was all made in supernovae.
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Ronald 7 say: Gold was only one of the Elements produced in distant Supernova
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John say: It has been explained but for one part. Gold, and CARBON, were formed in the stars. They are each elements. Diamond is just a certain crystalline structure of carbon. And carbon is one of the most common elements in the universe.
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SumDude say: No. The contraction and growth of stars and black holes caused atoms of more and more electron, protons, and neutrons to be created.
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say: Only a few of the very light elements were created in the Big Bang, heavier elements are all created in ancient supernova explosions.
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poldi2 say: No, much of the gold was synthesized in the cores of massive stars after the Big Bang itself.
The Big Bang created hydrogen, helium, some deuterium, and some lithium. Everything heavier is created in stars.
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billrussell42 say: no. none of it was. Gold and other heavy elements are all created in supernova explosions.
wikipedia:
Gold is thought to have been produced in supernova nucleosynthesis, and from the collision of neutron stars, and to have been present in the dust from which the Solar System formed. Because the Earth was molten when it was formed, almost all of the gold present in the early Earth probably sank into the planetary core. Therefore, most of the gold that is in the Earth's crust and mantle is thought to have been delivered to Earth later, by asteroid impacts during the Late Heavy Bombardment, about 4 billion years ago.
Traditionally, gold is thought to have formed by the r-process (rapid neutron capture) in supernova nucleosynthesis, but more recently it has been suggested that gold and other elements heavier than iron may also be produced in quantity by the r-process in the collision of neutron stars. In both cases, satellite spectrometers only indirectly detected the resulting gold: "we have no spectroscopic evidence that [such] elements have truly been produced," wrote author Stephan Rosswog. However, in August 2017, the signatures of heavy elements, including gold, were observed by gravitational wave detectors and other electromagnetic observatories in the GW170817 neutron star merger event. Current astrophysical models suggest that a single neutron star merger event generated between 3 and 13 Earth masses of gold.
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Jake No Chat say: Yes, all of the gold was created in the beginning. Diamonds and hookers came later.
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Ominous Cowherd say: No.
Some gold is produced by supernovas, but most is produced when neutron stars collide.
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drake say: No, but by supernovae nucleosynthesis and colliding neutron stars.
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james say: Gold can be made in labs. But with world wide surplus of gold. It would drive gold prices down. So Government's band production of lab produced gold.
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CarolOklaNola say: No. Gold was NOT made during the Big Bang Gold is made only when massive stars go super nova, or neutron stars collide. It was bought to Earth be impacting meteorites and asteroids.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosy...
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say: Gold can be created but is ludicrously expensive.
https://www.cnet.com/news/bling-researchers-create-24k-gold-in-the-lab/
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