Gold is considered the world's hard currency, is it possible that it is a scam marketed by merchants like diamonds? Is there a difficult pure gold planet in the universe? In fact, it is all hard currency in the universe!
Diamonds were once regarded as a rare treasure, businessmen relied on marketing methods, touting the strong connection between diamonds and love, so that diamonds have been shrouded in a mysterious halo for more than 100 years, people have paid huge sums of money to buy diamond rings in order to express love, however, with the development of science and technology, the emergence of man-made diamonds, finally unveiled the mystery of diamonds.
Man-made diamonds are relatively simple to manufacture, and only need to imitate the arrangement of carbon atoms inside natural diamonds, and ordinary carbon elements can be used to synthesize man-made diamonds that are indistinguishable from real diamonds.
Indian businessmen took advantage of this, mass-produced man-made diamonds, packaged them, and successfully sold them as natural diamonds, coaxing many diamond merchants, for a while, even diamond merchants could not distinguish between real diamonds and man-made diamonds, and could only acquiesce to the existence of man-made diamonds.
In stark contrast to diamond, gold can hardly be successfully artificial, and the reason for this is that gold has no isotopes, that is, in order to make artificial gold, it is necessary to start from other elements and change the nucleus to make gold, which is extremely difficult to convert artificially.
As early as many years ago, a Japanese scientist made an attempt to make artificial gold, he chose the element mercury with one more proton than the nucleus of gold to carry out the experiment, and irradiated the mercury with strong gamma rays, and successfully knocked out the excess proton and turned it into gold.
However, this process requires so much electricity that the scientist conducting the experiment is approached directly by the power company to talk to him, because he has consumed more electricity than he needs to pay.
The reason why gold is difficult to be man-made is that it has extremely high stability, in the natural environment, gold will hardly change its atomic structure, which makes gold a rare natural element, artificial gold not only has a high technical threshold, the cost is expensive, but also can not achieve the same stability as natural gold, because of this, gold will become such a rare and precious element.
So, how did this rare and precious gold form in the universe? To understand where gold comes from, we need to start with its atomic structure.
Gold's atomic number is 79, which makes it a rare heavy element, in contrast to hydrogen and helium, which are at the front of the periodic table, which have atomic numbers of 1 and 2 respectively, and are the most common elements in the universe.
In the early stages of the formation of the universe, the high temperature and pressure produced by the Big Bang provided excellent conditions for the synthesis of hydrogen and helium, which constituted 99% of all matter, and then, the hydrogen nuclei continued to fuse, eventually forming the nucleus of helium, and when the helium nuclei accumulated to a certain amount, they began to merge to form heavier elements such as carbon and oxygen.
The greater the mass of a star, the heavier the element it can make, until the iron in the center of the periodic table is made, the situation changes subtly, the fusion of the iron nucleus becomes extremely difficult, and once it appears, it triggers the supernova explosion of the star, and the high temperature and pressure generated by the supernova explosion make it possible to make the element heavier than iron.
Even after the supernova explosion, gold still did not appear in the universe, and it was only when two neutron stars collided and merged together that gold and silver were produced in the process.
However, the collision of neutron stars is a very rare event in astronomy, and because of this, gold is still a rarity in the vast expanse of space.
One might ask, if the universe is so vast, why doesn't there be a planet made entirely of gold? The reason is that in addition to gold, the collision of neutron stars also produces many other heavy elements, the most important of which is iron.
Because the atomic number of iron is smaller, it is easier to synthesize under natural conditions, so in a gold-bearing planet, the content of iron will generally far exceed that of gold, and it is impossible for a "golden planet" in the true sense of the word.
No celestial body can be made up of just one element. Even an element as universal as hydrogen cannot occupy all the components of a planet, the elements in the universe are always diverse and combined, and the proportion of gold will always be scarce.
Therefore, whether on the earth or in the vast universe, gold is a rare and precious element, and its rarity makes gold a currency-like existence, a stable and valuable value embodiment.
The contrast between diamonds and gold symbolizes the relationship between scarcity and value, and also indicates the impact of scientific and technological progress on traditional things, and people's definition of rare things may be changing.
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