(December 24, 2022 at 12:37 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(December 24, 2022 at 12:21 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: Fun fact: An empty plastic bottle of water contains hydrogen atoms that were synthesized in the first few minutes of the Big Bang.
That's true of all elementary particles, indeed, all of matter. A chemical element's identity is simply its number of protons, and all the protons and neutrons (which can create protons via beta decay) were all present very, very early on.
By the epoch of last scattering the elements of hydrogen, helium, lithium, and beryllium existed. Oxygen had to wait for stellar nucleosynthesis to appear. But not according to the inerrant word of God Almighty, which has water existing days before the sun and other stars.