the animation is so adorable

TED-Ed: We can manufacture gold! also TED-Ed: We actually cannot, but hypothetically yes!

The ancient Aztecs called gold "the sweat of the sun". Seems they knew what they were talking about

Him: Gold is about 20x denser than water Me: Laughs while watching duck tales on tv

This video ends on such a happy note. "Oh, and if a star dies close enough to us we could either get rich or completely die out!"

Everybody knows that gold comes from the end of a rainbow.

Can I invest in Gold? Any specific guide please?

Two notes. First, to the best of my knowledge, the majority of gold and other heavier elements in the universe is produced not in supernovas but in much more rare events - neutron star merges. Second, all gold that we mine actually came to Earth on meteorites over billions of years of its development, since the original gold, platinum, and other heavy elements present during the formation of the planet should have sunk into its core.

"Diamonds have been crushred for like a million years." "Gold is literally made from space explosions."

am i the only one who felt bad for the alchemist

Well done. When the very young earth was still forming and molten, most of the gold that arrived settled deep within its mantle and core because of its relative weight and although moderate amounts of stirring have occurred, most of it is still down there. Occasionally volcanic activity lifts some into the crust mixed with many other heavy elements (magma) and even some of it rarely makes it to the surface (mixed in the lava). Additionally, cracks in the crust (earthquakes) permit hot acid water to flow toward the surface, slowly depositing dissolved minerals in these cracks (such as quartz and gold) as it cools. Most quartz and hot water veins sadly brought no gold with it (those quartz veins are called "bull" quartz) and sometimes this hot acid water flowed toward the surface too fast (steeper angle than 67 degrees) to permit the gold to settle (precipitate) out and it remained diluted in the 3 to 5 parts per million concentration. So, every time you hear of an earthquake deep within the crust, just think more gold may be heading near the surface for you to find some day.

"Gold is Extraterrestrial" - If you're going to put it like that, everything is extraterrestrial.

First, the Server generates some chunks, and then we find them. Make sure to use an Iron Pickaxe.

Medieval alchemist: "where did that 3km long particle accelerator come from?"

Beautifully imagined and animated ❤️

Me: So we can create gold? TED-ed: Well yes, but actually no.

I think they are missing the more important question: could Scrooge McDuck really swim in one of those Olympic swimming pools full of gold? Sadly, the world may never know.

"Did you know that gold is extraterrestrial?" < well it's been on earth since it formation billions of years ago, so it's as "extraterrestrial" as we are, or anything on earth actually.

Beautiful story! Humbling to think that a gold necklace came from the heart of a dying star.

Some ancient cultures believed gold to be from the remains of their "gods", also known as the fallen angels.

Holy cow, learnt more about physics in these minutes than during the last 41 years

this cartoon is so awesome, please do more in this style! haha

Informative video. The end part of this video shows a distortion of our disconnection; giving something worth due to rarity and assigning it a monetary value at the cost of disruption of ecosystems and potentially causing bloodshed (wars and infighting because of the lust for it). I think we need to recognize that living systems are worth more than applications and value in the materialistic sense, that we give these wonderful byproducts of important celestial bodies that give life and light through its own energy, temperance and respect, and in turn receive it.

This was excellent and beautiful. One interesting side note, attempting to make gold this way will most likely contaminate it with radioactive gold as well. This is one way you would know it was "manufactured". Au-197 is the only stable isotope, and there are many radioactive ones. If you were to transmute some other element into gold, you'd very likely have contaminated any gold that you made with radioactive isotopes of gold.

"Gold is extraterrestrial" Isn't everything cooked up in space?

what if people in the future no longer considering gold as a valuable substance? like what if people value dirt/soil because of the nutrient in it to make plants?

THE MUSIC FOR THIS VIDEO IS JUST ON POINT!

This is the best animated learning I have ever encountered!!!

those hydrogen atoms are cute af

1:00 those hydrogen atoms looks like as if they r holding breath 😄

Sometimes I forget how beautiful science actually is. Thanks for the reminder

As a side note it seems much of the time gold veins are located within Quartz formations. If you find a sizable quartz rock laying around always worth a look to see if there is any yellow in it. While very rare this is actually a way to find gold just laying around on the ground.

1:00 What do you see? A circle with eyes and a letter H A circle with eyes and cheeks

So that’s where gold comes from! I wouldn’t have guessed that in a bullion years.

1:40-1:43 is so well animated. love it

Excellent in its simplicity and clarity!

Three swimming pools? that's it?? I find it hard to believe...

The video makes it sound like gold is just iron with a bunch of extra neutrons. I think it left out the protons.

This video is really easy to understand if you already have a good understanding of Chemistry.

Best animation with superb comic angle to it.

Stages of gaining metabolism 1: Hydrogen 2: Helium 3: Iron 4: argon 5: Gold 6: Lead 7: Uranium

Voice, animation, content beauty of this channel.

*2 years ago and I still enjoy this 😅*

Our daily shout out from Mr. Anderson’s 5th grade classroom of the Lowman Hill Leopards in Topeka Kansas. Our classroom motto is, “We are not held back by where we came from!” We always RISE UP. Our favorite word is LEXICON: the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge.

1:09 Im thinking of eggs right now...

4:14 And there I was. I had just become the richest man in the entire universe. And poorest

I have to know what it looks like for a piece of iron to suddenly turn into gold in mere seconds.

"even tho this means it's a high concentration of mass, since gold is 20 times more dense than water" Uncle scrooge: *wait what-*

Every rare thing is precious, not just gold.

This video taught me more than my 12 years of schooling.

I liked how they used the TED talk intro sounds for the supernovae

If this was not a TED-ED video , I would not have believed Gold is not from earth

So gold was literally showered on earth from the heavens 🤷🏻‍♂️

I can't stop watching this beautiful video, everything about this video is so perfect. The animations, narration, sound effects, and background music.

That supernovae explosion is so beautiful

The way I bursted into laughter when his alchemy experiment blew up in his face!! 😂😂

"Maybe some future supernova will occur close enough to shower us with [gold] (wohoo!)... and hopefully not eradicate all life on Earth in the process" (Boooo!). That escalated quickly T_T

By putting gold in the title they made sure people will view this video about stellar nucleosyhtesis. Nicely done.

That background music, so good....

That was super smart. I’m saving this for the grand kids!

I recommend Domics as an animator!

whats the piano background song at 00:38?

All gold came from a guy named Midas! Lol

That neutron gun with lead was hilarious!

I literally paused this video in the middle just to give a like. Dude, the art and your voice is extremely good.

0:59 the H of the hidrogen looks like they chubby cheeks

The fact that people in medieval times believe that philisopher stone can turn lead into gold, in which they dont know periodic table. Is amazing itself. because lead is the closest one we have to put into particle accelerator to turn it into gold. They were so close

Thank you for this!

Everyone knows it comes from golden egg goose

Seeing ted ed videos is always worth time, always

Appreciate the animation.🤗

A star's normal life and energy production only makes elements up to iron - all of the heavier elements are produced in Supernovae.

On a side note, the night time music is so nice, it made me feel sleepy

The animation and sound effects were amazing!

Ted-Ed: Where does gold come from? Me, and intellectual: *The ground.*

Wow such a picturesque depiction..

In short "From the same place as pretty much everything".

The Hydrogen is Absolutely ADORABALE!!!!! 😁😁😁

That the heavy metals comes from space, the debris of supervova, is just mind blowing. (Is that a pun?) Great video. Thank you.

A Gold like video, happy to have mined this gold. 😊

4:07 bring on the Golden Shower!

4:10 That would be literally be a "golden shower".

It’s very hard to fuse past iron, even in a supernova. Neutron star mergers seem to produce much more.

I gold prospect up in Maine. I find gold often. I love it. Not just its value but there is something almost other worldly about holding Gold pieces. Truly a marvel and Mankind's greatest mystery. 🙌 I love gold panning. 💛

Ted-Ed: "Where does gold come from?" The ground *bam*!

this channel is so great why has it garnered so less views?

Well done on the graphics

This video was truly a GOLDEN EXPERIENCE-U

what a masterpiece, thanks ted.

Its funny tho gold has no vale what so ever, it's only that everyone agrees it does that makes it valuable

Omg the ending was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

Nice. Thanks. Good work.

3:26 is somehow the cutest yet most disturbing thing I've ever seen. It's like watching someone develops Stockholm syndrome on fast forward

We're taught that the heavier elements come from supernovae, but the pressures from neutron star collisions much better fit the bill for heavy element creation than those from supernovae.

Literally the only reason they want to explore space.

Thanks a lot

It amazes me how man has figured out how this actually happened once upon a time. Protons, electrons, nuclear fusion..... my actual intellectuality saddens me sometimes when I see these things.

I guess now we know most of the heavy elements like gold are usually produced in neutron star collisions..

There was a smirk at the end

I must say I have never seen such a cute atom in my whole life