I'm really thirsty but I don't want to buy some water. I just created a universe but all I have is a lot of hydrogen and helium. How can I get the oxygen ?? I really don't want to walk to the kitchen and use the faucet.
A glass of water
Sep 30, 2011
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You have a bit of obsessive compulsive going on there
You need a few stars. Even low mass stars will eventually synthesise oxygen (by nuclear fusion) but it takes a while, but in a metal-free universe you can have really big stars that will synthesise everything in a few million years then spread the atoms around in a truly spectacular super-nova.
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You can probably make it to the kitchen and back while they are getting on with it.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
Oh, come on. You're hanging out in sci.e.design, and you don't know how to fuse hydrogen to helium, to carbon, to oxygen?
It does sound like you know how to light a match, so at least that part's covered.
Good Luck! Rich
Sorry, only one troll at a time. Please repost this next week,
I'm never going to grow up.
Hmph, fine then.
So where did the faucet and kitchen come from then?
Sylvia.
Murphy's law would suggest that he will only wind up with these stars, though:
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It may require two trips to the kitchen and back.
Jon
They won't help anyhow. First he'll need a water meter :-)
Regards, Joerg
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Just stay where you are and yell "Honey, get me a beer."
John
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." --- Carl Sagan
Cheers! Rich
Which came first, the kitchen or the faucet?
Thanks, Rich
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