Max Tegmark Quotes

The Laws Of Economics Tell Us That Atoms Are Expensive If They're Rare, And The Laws Of Physics Tell Us That They're Rare If They Require Unusually High Temperatures To Make. Putting This Together Tells Us That If Atoms Could Talk, The Priciest Ones Would Tell The Best Stories. Garden-variety Atoms Such As Carbon, Nitrogen And Oxygen (which Together With Hydrogen Make Up 96% Of Your Body Weight) Are So Cheap Because Garden-variety Stars Such As Our Sun Can Produce Them In Their Death Throes, After Which They Can Form New Solar Systems In A Cosmic Recycling Event. Gold, On The Other Hand, Is Produced When A Star Dies In A Supernova Explosion So Violent And Rare That It, During A Fraction Of A Second, Releases About As Much Energy As All The Other Stars In Our Observable Universe Combined. No Wonder Making Gold Eluded The Alchemists.

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