Hi, Do you remember in school when we learned about the water cycle?
How water evaporates then falls again as rain!
But, there was always a lingering question in my mind.
How did water first form on our planet in the first place?
As the years passed, physicists have been able to answer this question.
One in particular, Carl Sagan
Asserted that water first arrived on our planet when stars first appeares.
Stars aren’t simply shiny things that twinkle in the night.
Inside stars, a series of nuclear burning stages
Transforms the star into an onion-like shell structure
That produces heavier and heavier elements in various stages.
Elements like silicone, neon, calcium, copper, chromium, carbon, oxygen
The list goes on and on, and this causes the star to expand more and more.
The last element to be produced by the star, the one that sits in the very core of the star
Is iron, which makes the star resist any further compression
And lose its ability to expand.
The star then becomes a bloated ball of gas
With a dense iron core slightly smaller than the size of planet Earth
Resting at the very center. No more energy can be produced by the iron core
Because iron doesn’t burn.
This causes the star’s store of energy to become depleted
And it is this process that spells the end for the star.
The end of a super-massive star results in an explosion: a supernova.
After the star explodes in a supernova, it leaves behind its core as a remnant.
The core of this remnant is more rigid than steel.
This remnant is the densest star known to exist in the Universe.
It’s called a neutron star or a pulsar.
This pulsar is characterized by unique characteristics.
First, it is very dense. How dense? Let’s put it this way
A teaspoon of matter from a neutron star or pulsar
Weighs as much as Mount Everest.
Secondly, it punches holes in stellar disks
In NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory
Scientists have observed a pulsar punching a hole in a disk of gas or stellar disk
Around its companion star.
They published this information along with an image of the pulsar on their website
On July 23rd, 2015.
In the form of stardust, supernova scatter the elements that surround the core of the star
And that are made through nuclear fusion by the star out into the cosmos
And these are the same elements that make up other stars, planets and everything on Earth,
including our bodies.
In her research work published in 2014
In astrophysics journal, Goranka Bilalbegović and her research team
Described exploding stars as cosmic cement mixers
In order to explain the presence of building material in space.
They recorded that when very massive stars die,
They explode and litter space with a variety of elements.
All the ingredients of cement have been found in such stellar remnants.
Meaning that stardust is not just dust, it is cement like dust,
Which solidifies after being mixed with water.
The oxygen synthesized in stars via nuclear reactions
Is dispersed with the stardust through the cosmos
And combines for the first time with hydrogen to form water
(H20)
And here lies the answer to the question I posed at the beginning
Where does water really come from?
Water was formed and emerged for the first time from between the cement like dust
And the remnant star core, which is more rigid than steel: the pulsar.
Meaning that the dust grains that float through the solar system
Contain tiny pockets of water
And water has been found trapped inside real stardust.
Scientists believe that this stardust rained down continuously on young planet earth
And brought with it the organic material needed for the eventual origins of life.
The discovery of water in stardust suggests that the continuous stardust falls
Have acted as a continuous rainfall which brought water to our molten planet.
In the Quranic chapter called "Al-Tarek or The pulsar"
God swears by the star, which punches holes that we are made from the showers of water
The water which emerged from between kinds of cement like dust and steel.
The Holy Quran says “By the heaven, and by the Pulsar.
And have you understood what the pulsar is?
It is the star, which punches holes. There is not a soul that does not have a guardian over it.
So man must consider from what he has been created.
He was created from the water, ejected.
That is emerging from between the steel and cement like dust.
God has all power to resurrect him.”
It is beyond incredible that a book from 1400 years ago would mention such topics.
So, when the famous physicist, Carl Sagan said
“We are all made of star stuff.”
He wasn’t speaking poetically or figuratively, he meant it literally.
But, before Carl Sagan and his great great, great grandfathers were even born
The Quran had already told us that showers brought the elements that make up everything on Earth
Including our bodies, when it says
“Have you not seen that God has sent water down from the heaven
To make fruits of various colors,
Mountains of various colors like white, red and intense black mountains
And also to make the various colors of people
Moving creatures and grazing livestock.”
In 2004, NASA sent a spacecraft called Stardust
On a mission to collect cosmic dust samples
From a comet to be brought back to Earth for analysis.
Andrew Westphal, a planetary scientist and the study lead of this mission said
“By analyzing interstellar dust, we can understand our own origins.”
Mr. Westphal was right.
The analysis of the cosmic dust collected yielded some informative and sometimes puzzling results
About the physical characteristics of stardust
Other than the fact that it is similar to cement.
They found that it is sticky (covered in organic matter)
As stated by Dr. William Reville The Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at University College Cork in Ireland
It is soft (amorphous, not crystalline silicates)
As stated by Dr. Francisca Kemper 2004 in astrophysics journal
And it is dark (tar-like) as stated by Dr. Franz R. Krueger
And Jochen Kissel at Max-Planck-Institut in Munich, Germany
It was also described as similar to cement
By Goranka Bilalbegović in astrophysics journal in 2014.
But, you know where else we can look to learn a great deal about our origins? The Quran.
Not only does the Quran state that humans were originally created from dust,
But it also states the physical characteristics of this dust
In the following verses and they are strikingly similar to what the scientists described later
Other than its similarity to cement, the Quran describes the dust that we are created from as sticky,
soft and dark or tar-like
Chapter 30, verse 20: “And of His signs is that He created you from dust.”
Chapter 37, verse 11:
“Indeed, We created men from sticky clay.”
And Chapter 15, verse 26:
“And indeed, We created man from potter’s clay of altered black smooth mud.”