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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jimmifett" data-source="post: 5679415" data-attributes="member: 55006">I seem to recall that all matter comes from space <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Gold, specifically, is the result of supernovae (regular suns can't fuse past Iron if i'm not mistaken). Large suns blow up like a woman in florida that doesn't get her chicken nuggets when they start trying to fuse silicon and iron. When the sun busts open it's can of whoop-ass, these temperatures are much higher than regular solar operations. Something called nucleosynthesis occurs. Several neutron capturing processes happen, bulking up atom isotopes like steroidal freaks on Muscle Beach. These unstable nuclei then break down like the sissy losers that can't bench press a tank on said beach, and result in more stable, heavier elements. These heavy atoms, gold, uranium, etc, float around the cosmos until the Empress of the Racnoss decides to hide her children by encasing her cacoon in a gravity well that attracts other stellar dust forming the Earth. Some time later, some planet decides to get all up in Earth's grill, sucker punching it like 2 sumo wrestlers. Earth turns into a big molten ball and vomits out the moon like a freshman at a frat party. Earth sorts itself out, with nickel and uranium and stuff sinking to the core and everything cooling around it. Except the uranium is now much closer together now and sets off a fission rave at the Earth's core, keeping it hot and fluidic... like rave girls...? This stirs the magma pudding and can keeps it circulating heavier atoms back towards the surface. Meanwhile, the crust cools down, the moon stabilizes the Earth's wobble, we get lovely Fjords (thank you Slartibartfast) and David Tennant. Meanwhile, there are still chunks of rock floating out there in space, filled with supernova excriment, waiting to fall from the sky...</blockquote>

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