by Dave Consiglio
You are solely hither temporarily, exactly most of the atoms inwards your trunk volition alive forever.
We volition bargain amongst the tiny exception to this at the cease of this article, but, first, let's await at what happens to us when nosotros die:
1. You die. I'm real lamentable virtually that.
2. You are either buried (embalmed or not) or burned. There are a few other options, exactly they are rare.
a. If you lot are buried, your soft tissues are eventually eaten yesteryear bacteria as well as small-scale organisms. Much of that becomes carbon dioxide, as well as the residue becomes the bodies of these organisms or their children.
b. If you lot are burned, your soft tissues are consumed yesteryear oxygen as well as generally turned into carbon dioxide, water, as well as to a greater extent than or less nitrogen as well as sulfur oxides.
3. In both cases, though, the long term finish for those chemicals is the biosphere. You piece of employment nutrient for other organisms.
4. Even your bones decay, albeit much to a greater extent than slowly. The calcium as well as phosphorus inwards your bones volition endure incorporated into plants.
Better endure a trivial nicer to that small-scale tree beside your describe of piece of employment solid at in i lawsuit piece you lot even as well as hence can.
5. Some solar daytime these plants volition endure consumed yesteryear animals. Those animals volition eventually die, endure consumed, as well as bike through the biosphere over as well as over again.
6. Eventually, tiny bits of you lot volition cease upwards inwards your keen grandchildren’s corn flakes or pork chop.
So you lot see, you lot actually WILL alive on -- on this planet-- non at in i lawsuit every bit a whole, thinking individual exactly every bit tiny, microscopic particles floating virtually the earth.
Oh, as well as the exception: radioactive elements.
You don't accept many, exactly a few of your elements volition decay into other elements earlier entering the biosphere.
Radioactive potassium volition plow into calcium.
Tiny amounts of thorium as well as uranium volition eventually piece of employment lead.
With most of this decay, the novel elements formed remain hither on earth.
But amongst that final set, helium is formed.
Earth’s gravity isn't potent plenty to represent helium, as well as and hence tiny bits of what in i lawsuit was you lot volition float off into space.
Some volition endure captured yesteryear the Sun as well as Jupiter.
A trivial volition escape the solar organization as well as drift off to the stars.
Looks similar yesteryear all agency your atoms are going to accept an exciting life afterward yours is over!
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Dave Consiglio
Chemistry as well as Physics High School Teacher as well as Community College Professor
Science Teacher, Math Nerd, Hypothetical Destroyer of Worlds. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/
You are solely hither temporarily, exactly most of the atoms inwards your trunk volition alive forever.
We volition bargain amongst the tiny exception to this at the cease of this article, but, first, let's await at what happens to us when nosotros die:
1. You die. I'm real lamentable virtually that.
2. You are either buried (embalmed or not) or burned. There are a few other options, exactly they are rare.
a. If you lot are buried, your soft tissues are eventually eaten yesteryear bacteria as well as small-scale organisms. Much of that becomes carbon dioxide, as well as the residue becomes the bodies of these organisms or their children.
b. If you lot are burned, your soft tissues are consumed yesteryear oxygen as well as generally turned into carbon dioxide, water, as well as to a greater extent than or less nitrogen as well as sulfur oxides.
3. In both cases, though, the long term finish for those chemicals is the biosphere. You piece of employment nutrient for other organisms.
4. Even your bones decay, albeit much to a greater extent than slowly. The calcium as well as phosphorus inwards your bones volition endure incorporated into plants.
Better endure a trivial nicer to that small-scale tree beside your describe of piece of employment solid at in i lawsuit piece you lot even as well as hence can.
5. Some solar daytime these plants volition endure consumed yesteryear animals. Those animals volition eventually die, endure consumed, as well as bike through the biosphere over as well as over again.
6. Eventually, tiny bits of you lot volition cease upwards inwards your keen grandchildren’s corn flakes or pork chop.
So you lot see, you lot actually WILL alive on -- on this planet-- non at in i lawsuit every bit a whole, thinking individual exactly every bit tiny, microscopic particles floating virtually the earth.
Oh, as well as the exception: radioactive elements.
You don't accept many, exactly a few of your elements volition decay into other elements earlier entering the biosphere.
Radioactive potassium volition plow into calcium.
Tiny amounts of thorium as well as uranium volition eventually piece of employment lead.
With most of this decay, the novel elements formed remain hither on earth.
But amongst that final set, helium is formed.
Earth’s gravity isn't potent plenty to represent helium, as well as and hence tiny bits of what in i lawsuit was you lot volition float off into space.
Some volition endure captured yesteryear the Sun as well as Jupiter.
A trivial volition escape the solar organization as well as drift off to the stars.
Looks similar yesteryear all agency your atoms are going to accept an exciting life afterward yours is over!
***
Dave Consiglio
Chemistry as well as Physics High School Teacher as well as Community College Professor
Science Teacher, Math Nerd, Hypothetical Destroyer of Worlds. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/