Aliens Of Gold
Garland Flugum
Today is World UFO Day. People in different countries are coming together to share stories about alien encounters. Many will stay up late monitoring the sky for UFOs, but alien experts will remind people that the best evidence could be found hidden in ancient ruins on Earth, and at the bottom of old religious sites like Guatavita in Colombia.
The gold rituals at the circular mountain lake Guatavita, located just north of Bogot, inspired the legend of El Dorado and other mysterious cities of gold. Ever since Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century witnessed an indigenous chieftain covered in gold dust dump precious metals into the lake, legends of vast wealth captivated future generations of fortune seekers. And while the lake continues to attract gold hunters who are keen on dredging Guatavita for sunken treasure, many people would be surprised by researchers who believe that the bottom of the lake also contains evidence of extraterrestrial life that came to Earth in search of gold.
Others believe that aliens used ancient civilizations to mine for gold, and argue that if we examine old legends and temples we could identify patterns that prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. Following this argument, indigenous temples built over 1,000 years ago to commemorate the visitation of a god, and strange tribal chants and rituals that were designed to communicate with other worldly beings, could be interpreted as cultural evidence of alien contact.
One of the most famous alien visitations is supposed to have occurred in Cusco, Peru. The sun temple Qurikancha had a giant golden disc that some alien experts believe was a symbol of a gold-plated UFO that had landed in front of the Inca emperor Atahualpa, legendary for having direct contact with the \"sky gods.\"
Other theorists go even further, claiming that the Great Pyramid of Giza is an ancient reactor that aliens used to make gold. But independently from whether you believe in aliens, ancient temples and mausoleums are like giant repositories for old sciences that have been lost. And these sciences can remind us that our ancestors were not only concerned with the environment and the planet, but also believed that survival was dependant on having a deep understanding of our solar system.
In its early days, some 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth was basically a ball of magma. During the cooling process, the denser materials sank towards the centre. As a result, they were drawn into the core, which is composed mainly of iron, most of the heavier metals.
Nuclear fusion processes are constantly taking place inside stars. The most abundant and simplest element is hydrogen, whose atoms contain one electron and one neutron. When two of these atoms fuse together under pressure and gravity, a helium atom is produced. In turn, the fusion of helium produces lithium. And the fusion processes continue until iron is produced, which begins to form when there is no more fuel left in the star to fuse.
Supernovae are massive stars that can no longer develop thermonuclear reactions in their core. The pressure causes them to suddenly contract and collapse. It is in this process that many scientists think that heavy materials such as gold are formed, although some astrophysicists doubt that the neutron flux inside the supernova is sufficient to form the necessary amount of heavy elements.
The other possible origi for our gold would be a collision of neutron stars, which form after the collapse of supernovae. Very recently, on 17 August 2017, one such cataclysmic event was detected. It is estimated that two neutron stars of only about ten kilometres in diameter collided, containing as much matter as the Sun.
Scientists believe that such an event could have generated as much gold as the mass of the Earth. This requires iron to be in a very neutron-rich environment in order to capture neutrons very quickly. As some of these neutrons undergo rapid radioactive decay and are converted into protons, iron, which has 26 protons and 30 neutrons, can be transformed into gold, which has 79 protons and 118 neutrons.
Although gold can be found all over the world, the geographical distribution is very uneven. The United States, Canada, Australia, China, Russia and South Africa are the countries with the highest concentration of this precious metal.
The first chapter of the series The Golden Thread, which deals with the importance that gold has in different areas of our lives, focuses on the fundamental role that this precious metal has played in the exploration of space.
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The findings provide weighty new evidence that the gold, platinum, palladium, and other iron-loving elements found in the crusts and mantles of Earth, the Moon, and Mars arrived on mini-planet-sized impactors during the final phase of planet formation in our solar system. These massive collisions occurred within tens of millions of years of the even bigger impact that produced our Moon, say the researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California.
To determine the answer, Walker and colleagues James Day of the University of Maryland and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, William Bottke and David Nesvorny from the Southwest Research Institute, and Linda Elkins-Tanton from MIT, used numerical models to see what size objects would best match the needed criteria.
These criteria included (1) providing the right amount of iron-loving metals to Earth, the Moon, and Mars; (2) being large enough to breach the crusts and mantles of these bodies, creating local molten rock ponds from their impact energy and efficiently mixing into the mantle; and (3) not being so large as to cause a fragmenting and reformation of the planet cores. The latter would have resulted in most of the newly added iron-loving elements being pulled down into the cores, as well.
The researchers showed that they could best reproduce these results if the late accretion population was dominated by a limited number of massive projectiles. Their results indicate the largest Earth impactor was 1,500 to 2,000 miles (2,400 to 3,200 kilometers) in diameter, roughly the size of Pluto, while those hitting the Moon were only 150 to 200 miles (250 to 300 km) across.
Where does gold, the precious metal coveted by mortals through the ages, come from? How, where and when was it produced? Last August, a single astrophysical observation finally gave us the key to answer these questions. The results of this research were published on October 16, 2017.
Despite the simplicity of this explanation, numerical modelling of supernovae has proved extremely complicated. After 50 years of efforts, researchers have just begun to understand its mechanism. Most of these simulations do unfortunately not provide the physical conditions for the r process.
In the last decade or so, some researchers have begun to seriously investigate an alternative scenario of the heavy-element production site. They focused their attention on neutron stars. As befits their name, they constitute a gigantic reservoir of neutrons, which are released occasionally. The strongest of these releases occurs during their merging, in a binary system, also called kilonova. There are several signatures of this phenomenon that luckily were seen on August 17: a gravitational-wave emission culminating a fraction of a second before the final fusion of the stars and a burst of highly energetic light (known as a gamma-ray burst) emitted by a jet of matter approaching the speed of light. Although these bursts have been observed regularly for several decades, it is only since 2015 that gravitational waves have been detectable on Earth thanks to the Virgo and LIGO interferometers.
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