Creations by mankind?

Question

Can anyone name one thing that mankind has ever created? Anything that was "invented" or "made" from any source or material that does not already exist in the universe?
Do we not just discover what is already here? Do we not just discover ways amd methods to combine those things that are already here.

What "new" thing has mankind ever created? Really new, that is not part of here and now? Name one!

Nylon is made from oil and coal.
Other synthetics from by-products.

From what is Plutonium produced or combined.?

Ya'll vote.

Don't you think that " the Arts" may be about the only original "creations" by man?

All else are discoveries, of things already here, and/or combining them?

Answer 1

It's not possible, according to the 1st law of thermodynamics, to create or destroy matter.

Obviously, anything and everything we "create" is just a comibination of naturally occuring elements. We have synthsized non-naturally occurring elements like Einsteinium. So, in that sense we created something. But it isn't like we made it appear out of nowhere.

Answer 2

There are synthetic materials that cannot exist naturally. Nylon is created by pulling the material created between two chemical compounds and then stretched out. Ununhexium, or the element "Uuh", is the temporary name of a synthetic superheavy element in the periodic table that has the temporary symbol Uuh and has the atomic number 116. Some research has referred to it as "eka-polonium". It is believed to be a brittle metal melting at around 300-400 degrees and vapourising readily.

In 1999, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced the discovery of elements 116 and 118, in a paper published in Physical Review Letters. The following year, they published a retraction after other researchers were unable to duplicate the results. In June 2002, the director of the lab announced that the original claim of the discovery of these two elements had been based on data fabricated by the principal author Victor Ninov.

In January, 2001 the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) published results [1] that described the discovered in 2000 decay of the isotope 292Uuh, which was produced in the reaction of 248Cm with 48Ca. It has a half-life of about 18 milliseconds (0.018 seconds) and decayed into 288Uuq. On May 11, 2001, the institute reported synthesizing a second atom, and that the properties confirmed a region of "enhanced" stability (see Island of stability).

In 2004 in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research the synthesis of this element was confirmed by another method (the chemical identifying on final products of decay of element).

Ununhexium is a temporary IUPAC systematic element name.

edit: There ae hundreds upon thousands more, we have yet to explore them!

Answer 3

You have a good argument there, and it is probably for the most part true. The thing that comes to mind though is these genetically modified foods, and animals. This cannot be a good thing either. We must not tamper with genetics until we have learned a lot more about it.

Answer 4

Plutonium does not exist in nature, at least not on Earth as far as we know.

Answer 5

Well , as I don't know about everything in the universe,
I really couldn't say...Nor can anyone else...
Perhaps you might want to narrow this down to just earthly
consideration...

Answer 6

alloys are something that isn't created in nature but they are a manmade combination of materials that are found naturally.

Answer 7

Intellectual content and abstract ideas.

Thanks for the two points.