Assuming that their was a big bang?

Question

Then we all are made up of the cosmic dust of that time!. Does that mean that we all as old as the planet itself.?

Answer 1

Sorry to just jump in here but why is it when I mentioned a fear of death you made me out to be some lazy good for nothing mother but when someone else asked a similar question you answered saying that you also feared the same thing?  Was just wondering.

Answer 2

protons don't decay, so our atoms are appr. 16 billion yrs old. Our solar system is made from the remnants of an exploded giant star, as well as some of our neighboring solar systems.

1st generation galaxies only had hydrogen and helium. Stellar explosions were necessary to create and disburse the other chemical and mineral elements in the universe. We are made of stellar materials.

Answer 3

The molecules that make us up are, yes. Gives one a nice sense of solidarity with the cosmos, doesn't it?

Answer 4

You bet.... matter just changes form.  you could have the molecules of a dinosaur in your body right now (not DNA... just basic particles and elements).  Cool, huh?

By the way, who says there was only one big bang....  maybe there's been more than one in this universe....

Answer 5

if the theory were true technically the original life forms were made of dust and and stuff so yes we would be in my opinion

Answer 6

Technically, except as living beings our cells grow and die but i guess never dissappear.

Answer 7

Not necessarily: the human body is mostly hydrogen and oxygen, a large part of which is thought to have come from impact by comets, which are composed of dirty water/ice. When a Mars mass body impacted the proto-Earth, we would have lost a considerable proportion of both water (steam) and atmosphere to space. But the bulk of that cometary water would have come in the first few hundred million years after that impact. You almost certainly have some in your body from the Tunguska impact in the early 1900s in Siberia, which is considered to be of cometary origin, since it devastated a huge area of forest, yet no remains were ever found.

Answer 8

In a way, yes. We are all made up of recycled matter that will continue to be cycled again and again. One of my favorite quotes is by Carl Sagan, when he simply says "we are star stuff which has taken destiny into its own hands."

Answer 9

In a way, yes, that is what it means.

On the other hand, if you don't believe in the Big Bang, but you do believe in Creationism, we are also as old as the planet itself.

Genesis 2:7

"The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground."

So whichever way you look at it, we all appear to be cosmic dust.

Answer 10

If you want to say we are, then go for it.  I doubt many people will agree with you.

Answer 11

Yes, 4.6 Billion years old, to be exact...

Additionally, our bodies are composed of the same chemical elements as the stars we see at night...with  one exception, we are breathing, we are an animate life form!