Friday 1 December 2017

astrophysics - How likely is it that the mass of all humans was generated by the same supernova?





All humans are brothers. They came from the same supernova.


─ Allan Sandage (1926 - 2010)



My gut (not a physicist) says not very likely at all.


That being said, he was probably referring to the creation of the solar system, Earth, etc.




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