Shock proof: Humans were born from the most terrible thing in the universe?

The world's most powerful supercomputer and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have successfully simulated how carbon-12 - the seed of humans, species and even aliens - is created from polar environments. best in the universe.

The study was led by astrophysics professor James Vary from Iowa State University (USA) and professor Takaharu Otsuka from the University of Tokyo, the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Chemistry and the Center for Scientific Research Advanced Science from the Atomic Energy Agency of Japan.

According to Sci-Tech Daily, research results show that creating carbon-12 is not easy, even during the most explosive events in the universe.

Supernova, which is most likely the "smelter" of carbon-12 - the "seed" of humans.

The extreme heat and pressure in the nuclei of stars or in the collisions and explosions of "cosmic monsters" - such as white dwarfs, neutron stars - create excited carbon nuclei, unstable, with 3 clusters of loose connections. Each cluster has 2 protons and 2 neutrons.

A small fraction of those unstable nuclei can shoot off some extra energy in the form of gamma rays and turn into a seed of life - stable carbon-12.

Carbon-12 is a key isotope for creating early organic molecules, the "building blocks of life," which often undergo a mysterious period of interstellar, interplanetary space travel before landing. down to a young planet and, with luck, gradually evolve into real life.

That's what the article published in Nature Communications describes, according to the simulation results of the mysterious carbon-12 construction process based on alpha particles - helium-4 atoms, with 2 protons and 2 neutrons, can gather. into much heavier atoms.

Simulations were performed on the most powerful supercomputer Fugaku at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe - Japan. Statistical techniques based on AI "artificial brains" have also been developed to aid supercomputers.

Neutron star collisions, supernova explosions from white dwarfs . which are the most terrible events in the universe, can cause extinction for the unfortunate habitable planets near them. The Earth itself also has near-supernova-related extinction events, either revealed in paleontological data or hidden in ancient tree growth rings.

However, this study once again confirms the hypothesis that the most ferocious "cosmic monsters" also bring life or rebirth.