Some atoms in your body, particularly hydrogen atoms in water molecules, formed 13.8 billion years ago during the Big Bang, making them older than the solar system (4.6 billion years old). These atoms have traveled through exploding stars, nebulae, dinosaurs, oceans, and other humans before becoming part of you. Your body is a temporary collection of ancient matter that you borrow from the universe for about 80 years, after which these atoms return to be used again by something else for billions more years. You are not permanent but rather the universe experiencing itself briefly.
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Some Atoms In Your Body Are Older Than The Solar System π #ShortsAdded:
Some of the atoms in your body are older than the solar system.
The solar system formed 4.6 [music] billion years ago.
But many of your atoms, the hydrogen in your water molecules, [music] formed 13.8 billion years ago.
In the first minutes after the Big Bang, those atoms [music] have been through everything.
Inside stars that exploded, floating in nebulae for billions of years, inside dinosaurs, [music] inside the ocean, inside other humans, and now inside [music] you.
Your body is a temporary collection of ancient matter.
You borrowed these atoms [music] from the universe.
You'll use them for 80 years, then return [music] them to be used again by something else for billions [music] more years.
You are not a permanent thing.
You are [music] the universe experiencing itself briefly.
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