The woman who solved the mystery of heavy elements!
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To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/FloatHeadPhysics. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. T shirt: Black: https://floatheadphysics.com/products/astronomers-periodic-table-black White: https://floatheadphysics.com/products/astronomers-periodic-table-white X-mass spl: https://floatheadphysics.com/products/astronomers-periodic-table-t-shirt-x-mass-special Elements heavier than Iron are not created by Nuclear Fusion reactions. And they are NOT created in supernova. Chapters: 00:00 Biggest misconception in astronomy! 01:06 The commonly told story of nuclear alchemy 02:37 Margaret Burbidge: The badass astronomer! 03:09 Why can't nuclear fusion create heavier elements? 05:01 How are heavier elements created then? 07:20 Why is supernova NOT the main site for creating heavy elements? 10:13 R-process & S-process 12:52 Margaret's extraordinary claim 15:28 The extraordinary evidence 18:50 Sing it with me! ho ho ho! 19:30 Let's learn to think, not just the facts! Links/Credits: AAS: https://aas.org/grants-and-prizes/annie-jump-cannon-award-astronomy Solar abundances graph: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Solar-system-abundances-of-heavy-elements-produced-by-r-process-and-slow-s-process_fig2_242113332 LIGO 2017 press release: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/press-release-gw170817 B2FH paper (PDF): https://cosmology.education/documents/B2FH_1957.pdf Neutron star collision animations: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10543 This video was sponsored by Brilliant
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