• mycatiskai@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    1 year ago

    The atoms that you are made of will not cease to exist until our sun explodes and makes them into something else.

    You will either get buried and rot into sustenance for worms and bacteria or you will get cooked into carbon and calcium to be spread out and become intermixed with the soil.

    So will everyone that currently exists barring nuclear annihilation. I find solace that my atoms will maybe be a tree or a bird or even just grass.

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      The sun isn’t massive enough to explode. It will just expand and get hotter, making Earth too hot to support life, and then burn out, making Earth too cold to support life. And even a supernova probably won’t destroy atoms. Most of our atoms will probably survive the ‘death’ of the sun.

    • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Well, no, but we’re all made out of atoms but I don’t think anyone would say that a human and an equivalent pile of raw material are the same.