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Is it true there is a good chance that there are atoms from the second after the big bang in my glass of water?
It's my understanding that every atom that makes up the universe today are all atoms that came from the big bang. Take humans as an example: We're made up of mostly carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms. Now I know there wasn't any carbon or oxygen atoms a second after the big bang, but carbon atoms, oxygen atoms and all other atoms on the periodic table are simply evolved hydrogen atoms. So every atom that makes up our body originated from primordial hydrogen atoms. As one physicist put it "We are what hydrogen atoms can do after 13.7 billion years."
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Also that Jesus, if he existed, has gasped some of the same O2 molecules, or composed of a shared atom? Or are these popular zeitgeist tidbits?"
If Jesus existed I believe it is true that you have gasped some of the same oxygen molecules as he has. You have also gasped some of the same oxygen or nitrogen molecules as dinosaurs. And surely some of the water molecules you drink have passed through Jesus's bladder. I think elementary probability explains this. There are a lot of atoms out there.
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If so there is a good chance 'you' will become some peanut butter on the toast of the president of the European States.
Surely some of the atoms that once made up our body are already in the peanut butter sandwich.
If anything I said is wrong someone please correct me.