If not god...who?

[tectak]

Yes we are more than merely hydrogen: we are Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorous, sodium, potassium, calcium and some trace elements assembled in a bag over a support structure. Bag is a good analogy for our integuments, organs and even the very plasma membranes of our cells. You other concept of a zoological entity inoculated with a soul to become what we call human is intriguing.



I enjoyed your simplified theory of aging and death that logically posits that our atoms remain intact while our biopolymers hydrolyze and high-order molecules break down. I like the idea that it is through those breeches that the soul escapes upon passing.



However, there is no solid hydrogen in stars (it’s a bit too warm). Therefore, suns do not sublimate hydrogen, i.e., cause the solid form to go directing to a vaporous one. I would do something with helium, the major by product of hydrogen fusion within the sun, something like: ‘…more than the helium that suns exhale…’



I like the passing through metaphor of current through copper as electrons. Some might argue that our paths are any less restricted than to a single wire. Are we ‘agglomerates’ from a single source of material or ‘conglomerates’ of matter from various sources?



I am not certain if the carbon digits belong to the spirits or represent the bonds, probably the latter. ‘Grasps/grips’ has some nice alliteration, but the terms are almost synonyms for me.



‘lets slips’ seems off, sonically if not grammatically.



I like this existential pondering at the atomic level. Thanks for the post./Chris

High Chris,
Forensic as is fitting. I only argue that at the atomic level we are very much mostly hydrogen, being what...65% water at a raitio of 2-1 hydrogen to oxygen. You are right with "sublimation" but I said "sublime"...the difference is subtle and perhaps just too off-the-wall if not downright wrong, both physically and semantically.....but like "carbon digits" there is a twist in the meaning to both words. Digits, fingers...digits valency bonds...fingers grasp (reach out through weak nuclear force) and grip (strong nuclear force).
This was an attempt to carry the metaphor right down to sub atomic level wherein I considered the final god particle to be solid and all other states were sublimates in that the combinations would, in all likelihood, be gases in the sun...even though "made" from the one true solid particle....harrumph. I know what I mean.
Regarding the use of "spontaneous", I was really trying to force the definition away from the behavioral and in to the chemical where it is rather more defined as an inevitability...without the need for godly input.

Definition of agglomerate in English:agglomerate
Line breaks: ag¦glom¦er|ate
verb
Pronunciation: /əˈɡlɒməreɪt
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Collect or form into a mass or group:

Hmmm... yes...no?

I think we are above mere mortals in this, chris(Smileys no longer work)

Someone will bring us down to earth....and soon I hope!

Best,
tectak