The Most Mysterious Element in Space and Earth

This is a guest contribution. The author Hubert Filser is a science journalist and physicist. His original article was published in "Horizonte" Nr. 144 (March 2025), the research magazine of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academies of Sciences. ______________________ The history of the currently most sought-after element of the world begins in the first five minutes after the Big Bang. At that time about 13.8 billion years a…