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This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.
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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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a cosmologist wouldn't even know what carbon is. it's just some kind of metal.
Still boggles my mind that literal matter came to be out of literally nothing but radiation and heat.
And now we can coax some matter to convert back into energy to produce power.
Let's time travel and take a look!