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There is a lot less Lithium in the universe than you might expect being element #3

There is also a lot less Lithium in the universe than our models predict:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_lithium_problem



This stinks of bad science. All of the observations come from stars. "Older stars seem to have less lithium than they should, and some younger stars have much more."

"BBC Science Focus wrote in 2023 that "recent research seems to completely discount" such theories; the magazine held that mainstream lithium nucleosynthesis calculations are probably correct."

I am unconvinced.




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