Thursday, August 28, 2014

Where's the Lithium?

Measurement at Big Bang Conditions Confirms Lithium Problem

Lithium, aside from hydrogen and helium, is one of the three elements that are created before the first stars form. These three elements were – according to the theory – already created early on, through what is known as “primordial nucleosynthesis.”

But, many observations of astronomers show that the oldest stars in our Milky Way contain only half as much lithium-7 as predicted. So where is all the missing Lithium?

See the complete article at:  HZDR

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