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Showing posts with label universe lithium problem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label universe lithium problem. Show all posts

Thursday, September 13, 2012

The universe still has a lithium problem.


That's the allegation of a paper in this week's Nature by Researchers from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Processes just after the Big Bang created ought To Have Certain Amounts of elements Such as hydrogen, helium, and lithium. Astronomers already knew the universe has far less of the isotope lithium-7 than it Should - studies of the old stars that surround the Milky Way