by dalore on 9/26/14, 10:59 AM
Woah, think of the impact this has on homeopathy! With water having memory, that memory goes back to older than our sun.
by unclebunkers on 9/25/14, 11:57 PM
This greatly increases my expectations of life on other planets if true.
by coldcode on 9/26/14, 12:41 PM
I've always wondered what percentage of water molecules on the earth have always been water molecules, i.e. since they became H20 how many have been separated by chemical processes and later recombined back into water. How you estimate that is beyond me.
by PierreDow on 9/27/14, 11:13 PM
by baxterross on 9/26/14, 5:04 AM
the sun's hydrogen is older than the sun.
boom.
by SergeyDruid on 9/26/14, 8:27 AM
Interesting article.
Now that I think of it, how comes that in all the (known) universe we have ice or ice blocks (such as comets)? Where from does it originates?
by EddyTaylor on 9/27/14, 8:24 AM
It is hard to believe but it seems to be true. Also, it ignites another discussion; Are we alone or do we have some company in this universe.
by kijin on 9/26/14, 1:02 AM
This is not surprising at all. What would the alternative be? The protoplantary disk that became the Solar System contained free hydrogen and free oxygen but no compound thereof? That's sounds unlikely.
Water forms naturally given enough hydrogen and oxygen at a wide range of temperatures. Since hydrogen is everywhere, and since main-sequence stars produce tons of oxygen via fusion, there's probably a lot of water floating around in the universe. When a nebula collapses into a protoplanetary disk, the increased density makes it even more likely that gas molecules will meet one another and form compounds.
by eapen on 9/26/14, 1:26 AM
I came to say that this changes everything since I thought the light came first. Still seemed relevant. (not trolling)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_there_be_light
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, and it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
by kp666 on 9/26/14, 4:22 AM
water on earth came from meteors and some of these meteors could have been older than sun
by IgorPartola on 9/26/14, 12:23 AM
Here is a fun fact: only elements up to iron are produced as a result of fission. The rest, including elements essential to human life, elements in your body, are only produced through fusion. Fusion is known to only occur in stars. You are stars.
by themodelplumber on 9/26/14, 3:17 AM
As someone interested in science, I was really excited to read the headline and see the HN discussion. As a Christian I was surprised and kind of creeped out to see the "so much for the Bible" talk. I feel like a Japanese person must feel when an American tries to get them to laugh at jokes. But I guess in a way it's nice though that nobody ever brings up the sort of beyond-Religion-101 topics that actually challenge my faith.
Edit: Why all the downvotes? I'm saying I'd prefer we let science be science, without the didactic religion talk, pro or con.