How Did Gold Get To Earth? | Colour: The Spectrum of Science | BBC Earth Science 

Not according to to my Christian brother. We were all created in six days six thousand years ago. How can you argue with that?

as indian the universe was created when a lotus grew out of lord vishnu stomach, then separated into three parts. we indians believe this becase we have scientific proof of panchagavya concept. According to same teachings, cow is holy because a thousand god live inside it. This is why cow byproduct is holy and clean (natural antiseptic). And why we indians use cow dung soap, toothpaste, etc.

Religious nutcases in this comment section 😂 🤦‍♂️

@@rajeshgajwelly9035 You liar. There's no concept like that in any of our holy texts. And no Indian ever uses cow dung toothpaste or soap. I'mma report you to RU-vid for spreading misinformation.

"We are billion year old carbon, and we got to get ourselves back to the garden."

It seems that the latest science puts gold as being formed in collisions between neutron stars.

Something the average jeweler is ignorant about funny enough.

@@robson668 The average jeweller hasn't got LIGO (look it up if you don't know) to pinpoint it happening, and hundreds of huge telescopes to follow up and see it happening. It was said that during the first collision between neutron stars that LIGO detected there was enough gold produced and scattered across the universe to equal something like four of five earth sized planets.

After watching this short entertaining video I was actually going to comment the same, personally I believe the sun is partially gold but some would say why isn’t gold found in the moon or mars? Again my personal belief with the inter connected planetary system earth having the strongest fields might attract particles rather than other planets, I’m in Victoria Australia and surrounded by gold fields one of the richest in the world some prospectors find clean round nuggets pebble to stone size just sitting on top of the surface looking at you and they look like meteorites with the smouldering dimples I also believe earths core has something to do with gold

That was the common thought for quite a long time but the math never really worked out. Current consensus is that most of the gold is formed in neutron star mergers.

She did say 3:30

@@_Super_Hans_ Right haha

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The BBC never really explains anything. And Their news programs are pure propaganda.

Don't worry, she's still cute

The beeb doesn't make science programming anymore, just woke catechisms and enviro/climate hysteria propaganda. It's a shadow of its former self of even just a few years ago.

So get our there and get yours! Just don't mind the costs of storing and securing it too much. I mean, that is after you mine or harvest and transport it. And of course secure those two phases as well.

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I recall there being a *stone* age, *iron* age and *bronze* age. Far more important to human civilization and progress. Gold is just the property of the wealthy, possibly akin to slavery.

@@oortcloud8078 Gold made the Information Age possible. It's the era we live in now and is significantly greater than any era of ancient civilizations. Not that I'm disputing they had technology, they just didn't have the level of technology we have today.

@@AshleyRajam I'm not disputing our obsession and the allure of Gold, you're absolutely correct. Although, I think you'll find that our recent information age has been driven by Silicon. Then, what if we consider Silver, without it's special properties, we wouldn't have any photographic record of our recent past. However, it's very nice talking with you Ashley, thank you for replying and making this an interesting conversation.

From China via Amazon?

From the white colonialist patriarchy?

Martians?❤.

Ivory patriarchy.❤.

Do we are all rich persons. ❤.

Energy.

@@cybermonkeys energy? of what?

@@pikiwiki You name it? Motion, Mass, Heat, Light, Nuclear, Sound, Radioactive Decay...Did I miss anything?

Or the possibility that there maybe actual diamonds raining on Jupiter or at the centre of the Earth.

She said Jamestown, probably Virginia, USA. If you are foreigner, It's illegal todo mining with tourist visa, if you are from non OCED member nation getting any visa itself is hard.

@@Muralidharan001Jamestown, California. The gold panning is in the South Fork of the American River.

Fort Knox

Thanks for the info, and it would've been the correct answer, if the question was how do humans see colour.

We are Stardust.

This is just my theory. 😅 Everything wants to get to iron, because it's incredibly stable. That's why the core of most celestial objects is iron. Reaction stops with iron, so once the star reaches this point, and has no fuel to continue. It explodes under gravitational compression. Gold was certainly formed in the massive explosion of collapsing stars, but the heavier elements were probably the result of a magnetorotational hypernova. When has the weight of something ever determined it's value? It's the rarity that determines value. Lead is more abundant than Gold, but is heavier.

Let's not get pedantic here! Gold was certainly formed in a massive explosion of collapsing stars, but the heavier elements were probably the result of a magnetorotational hypernova.

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@@philipclift7205 We love gold.

Martians (they are all green) brought it to the Earth. ❤.

It's actually not formed in a supernova. It is formed as part of a Kilonova ....... the result of 2 colliding neutron stars

Let's not get pedantic here! Gold was certainly formed in a massive explosion of collapsing stars, but the heavier elements were probably the result of a magnetorotational hypernova.

what's that?

nevermind just googled it

Well I hope you're not going to keep us in suspense Mr Forrester, pray tell us the answer?

@@cybermonkeys Quartz occurs with gold because they are complementary on a molecular level. Not only that, but the mineral also features an accommodating structure that encourages the formation of gold within.

@@wforrest001 Thank you for replying sir, I didn't actually know that, and I'm now going to tell my friend that, when they ask me about gold, they'll be immensely impressed and think I'm really smart. They might even give me some gold. 🤓

@@thomthumbe what a weird response

😂 You're right! It was a charming response, and I'm very happy for you both. Although, it was exceedingly weird, because the original question was about gold from our sun. Not where you met your wife! 😅

@@user-cu9ww9tj4i Certainly.

That is a truly fascinating story.

I used to work for a copper mining company. In conversation with the boss, I suggested that he would be better off gold mining. He told me that they get gold out with the copper as a ‘residual’ and they earn’t several million dollars that particular year. I’m not sure gold is found in seams?

Does there need to be a why?

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I can here, *(∆)* can you see it?

@@cybermonkeys teach me i need

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@@TheCrunch4000 It's a greek Delta ∆ symbol on your keypad, which in physics implies a change in value, as in, velocity equals = ∆d/∆t

Yes

All these comments stating things as myth 😂😂😂

Pretty sure it's Dr. Helen Czerski

​@@Marwolaeth01 Correct. She never appeared in friends, because she is a marine biologist.

@@cybermonkeys is she? I thought she was a physicist. Her book Storm in a Teacup is a great read.

@@Marwolaeth01 I'm pretty sure her real passion is the oceans, as she gave the Christmas lectures on the subject a few years ago, but it's very easy to get her mixed up with Dr Becky, who is a real astrophysicists, and also didn't appear in friends.

@@cybermonkeys Dr. Becky Smethurst is another one that I recommend their book. 10 things you should know about space audio book is read by her, unlike Storm in a Teacup which wasn't even read by Dr. Czerski. And neither one was read by Helen Baxendale, who did appear in Friends. Well, not as an audiobook anyway.

Such an over simplification of reality, it can fit any claim which renders it useless.

You certainly are in the list? You're made of molecules and atoms and electrons and quarks. Aren't you? 😂

@@cybermonkeys No. I live on planet Mars. I am all green.

@@user-zt5xz5fz4q If that's true, then how come I received your message so quickly. It takes longer than three minutes for a comment to travel from Mars? 🤔

@@cybermonkeys Mars II.

@@user-zt5xz5fz4q Where's that? The only Mars II.I know is made of chocolate, and isn't green?

Well, Dr Helen Czerski has that effect on me as well, but that's not where gold comes from? Exploding Supernovae is a better guess.

Stop spreading myths we are not interested

I wasn't. I just said it was possibly from supernovae explosions. That's not a myth.

Amen.❤.

@metal87power Here comes the socialist

A silly amount indeed

Repellents are great!

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@@paulhammons7077 not cool 😯

Mmhmm

What a lame comment. Did you actually read the description? This 4 min clip was taken from a 2 hour documentary on *Colour - The Spectrum of Science (2015)*

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its an excellent conductor

It's used in nearly all technology

In the past it was a 😻 🧲 Today it has uses in electronics and science.

It’s shiny and doesn’t rust.

And that's an answer from incredulity. Thanks, just say god did it, why not the pixies at the end of my garden. They're great at digging gold. I'm rich. 😂

Can you elaborate?

@@winthropstatue Sure. The dust and gas cloud that the planets formed from already had gold, uranium, etc., dispersed through it. Gold was not sprinkled on the surface through meteorite bombardment. The planets grew through the process of accretion. The Earth eventually segregated into a solid inner core, liquid outer core, a crystalline mantle, and a very thin crust. Gold, uranium, zinc and many other metals are not readily compatible with the minerals that comprise the mantle - olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and garnet. As the mantle cooled and crystallized, these metals became concentrated in the last drops of melt the crystalize at the boundaries where these crystals meet. They are locked in place almost entirely at these crystal junctions. With plate tectonics and spreading centers in the oceans, as the oceans are pulled apart, hot mantle rock moves plasticly upward. As it does so, perhaps 10-15% of the mantle rock melts, creating basalt magma, starting at these junctions where those four minerals meet, releasing whatever miniscule quantities of gold, silver, zinc, uranium, etc. into the basalt magma. The magma moves upward. Faults and fractures in the ocean floor at these spreading centers allow ocean water to move downward, be superheated, at which point they can leach the metals out of the rock, move it to the surface where it is exhaled through "black smokers." This is a two-part concentration - first concentrating the metals at the crystal boundaries and releasing it into the basalt magma, then having the metals leached by hot seawater through fractures and precipitated on the ocean floors at the spreading centers. Do an internet search on "hydrothermal vents" and you see the metals being pumped out as cloudy black water.

That was certainly an accurate elaboration, thanks

I'd get my money back for your "degree" if i was you!

@@jezster Point out the errors in my explanation.

I'm tired of comments like this one. Speculation implies no evidence to back up the theory, but that isn't true here. If you want speculation, try this: aliens delivered the gold to Earth to see what we would do with it.

@@JohnnyAngel8 Please test this ideas in at least 2 different ways in a reasonable time. I don't see the tests. Not mentions the third condition: repeating test and the same results! This is science. Anything else is a beautiful story nothing more. Double slit experiment, gravity experiments, friction, any any other really scientific things fulfil those 3 conditions I mentioned in the first comment.

Amen.❤.

All swans are white. I see two swans that are white. I keep seeing swans that are white. This didn't work though as eventually we found swans of different colours.

I think “we” have an idea of how gold arrived on earth. Did you have chemistry in school?

What a stupid comment.