We are Stardust & God element

We are all made of stardust. It sounds like a line from a poem, but there is some solid science behind this statement. Almost every element on Earth was formed at the heart of a star. Everything we are and everything in the universe and on Earth originated from stardust, and it continually floats through us even today. It directly connects us to the universe, rebuilding our bodies over and again over our lifetimes.

We really don’t realize how transient we are. Our bodies are made of fragments of stars and massive explosions in the galaxies. All the material in our bodies originates with that residual stardust, and it finds its way into plants, and from there into the nutrients that we need for everything we do think, move, grow. And every few years , our bodies are newly created. Our bodies are never static. We're dynamic beings, and we have to be dynamic to remain alive. This is not just true for us humans. It's true for all living things.

We have stuff in us as old as the universe, and then some stuff that landed here maybe only a hundred years ago. And all of that mixes in our bodies. To keep alive, our cells have to divide and grow. Very little of our physical bodies lasts for more than a few years. we perceive ourselves when we look into the mirror. But we're not fixed at all. We're more like a pattern or a process. And it was the briefness of the body and the flow of energy and matter needed to counter that transience that led us to explore our interconnect with the universe.

History began in outer space. Take salt. What we usually mean by kitchen salt. It has two chemicals. Where did they come from? They were formed inside stars that exploded billions of years ago and at some point, found their way onto the Earth.

We age because we lose the balance between cell deaths and regeneration. That's what we see in the mirror when we age over time. We're literally not what were a few years ago, and not just because of the way we think. Everything around us does this. Nature is not outside us. We are nature.

Our death marks another remarkable journey , we are again transforming into dust , in turn we will be part of some others, may be in a plant , another microbe, another element All again back to stardust  ........ the journey continues 


Courtesy; Different books