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Gold is weird in ways people never talk about. Every piece of gold on Earth is older than the planet itself. It was forged when neutron stars collided, blasting heavy atoms across the universe before the sun even existed.
Gold is so malleable, you can take a single gram and hammer it into a sheet the size of a small room, thin enough for light to pass through. That's not a metaphor. Gold leaf is semi-transparent.
Your phone contains gold because it never corrodes. Other metals decay. Gold just refuses. The atoms don't want to react with anything. There's gold in your blood. Not enough to see, but enough to measure. Tiny traces moving through you right now.
If you melted all the gold humanity has ever mined, it would fit inside a cube about 22 m wide, less than half a basketball court. And here's the strangest part. Gold isn't rare because it's hard to find. It's rare because Earth can't really make it. Every atom had to arrive here from a cosmic catastrophe.
Gold isn't wealth. It's evidence that the universe once broke itself open.