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And all of this..all of us..basically coalesced from star dust that will one day again be star dust :)



Maybe. Might just end up being a dense ball of nothing.


To be fair, "star dust" is not rigorously defined, and the cosmological definition of "dust" includes some pretty big chunks. So after the sun swallows the earth, there's a very good chance we'll qualify. :)


Also we are more patterns in the dust given that most of the atoms in our bodies swap for new ones over a couple of years. The patterns may be able to continue separately from the dust.


At the cosmological scale, stars are dust.


I thought that at any scale, that they were atoms. Or quarks. Or quantum fields. Or whatever.


A dense ball of _everything_.


That's what we are, entropy generating star dust.




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