Was sat in traffic the other day,watching dust blowing about from a building site,and i got to thinking where does it all go to?
I'm not talking about general household waste but, well......dust,brick dust,house dust,animal fur,skin we shed every day, where does it go?
It's not as if it's water soluble,even if it was it would still be there.
All the dust and dirt we produce every single day,where does it go?
every second of every day we produce more and more dust,all of us,but where does it end up.
Will the earth eventually be so small what with having to accomodate all the dust and dirt that we will no longer be able to live here?

Matter cannot be created or destroyed. Natire has its own recycling processes ( of which we and all living things, and all inanimate substances) are products.

Yeah but......where does the dust go?it multiplys at an alarming rate.......but where does it end up?
Or is it just the same dust that moves around alot:suspect:

it all ends up in my house, which is why I spend most of the weekend hoovering.

it all breaks down into molecules and begins the great circle of life again! the dust we have in our homes is mainly the dead skin and stuff breaking down.

What about solid matter,like brick dust for example?

Originally posted by deano
What about solid matter,like brick dust for example?
questions like this are similar to, how big is the universe, whats at the end of space and the likes! mind blowing:suspect:

I guess some of it will be washed down the drains by the rain, in to the water courses, out to sea and get dumped to form future land masses or getting dissolved away.

Really fine stuff I could see getting whisked up in to the upper atmosphere and maybe finally even getting out of the gravitational field of the Earth? Not sure about this but I remember reading years ago of something called Arrhenius Spores, which were possibly a way of life getting from one planet to another as tiny motes of dust that get out of the gravity of one planet and then get blown by the solar wind to other worlds.

Joe