riddle

[DAL59]

I last billions of years or mere milliseconds.
I embody the Jurassic and the Renaissance.
I am composed of 24 letters of the English alphabet, and 116 chemical elements.
I am your entire life, and I am waiting on you.

Edited December 19, 2018 by DAL59

[razark]

116?

And I never noticed¹ those two were missing.

 

¹Or thought about it.

[kerbiloid]

11 hours ago, DAL59 said:

I last billions of years or mere milliseconds.
I embody the Jurassic and the Renaissance.
I am composed of 24 letters of the English alphabet, and 116 chemical elements.
I am your entire life, and I am waiting on you.

A billion-years-old hybernating dyno from the parallel universe where the English alphabet has 24 letters?

Edited December 19, 2018 by kerbiloid

[Green Baron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJsyVJeSXEc

... but i'm not telling. Don't want to spoil the fun

Edited December 19, 2018 by Green Baron

[p1t1o]

It always wees me off so bad that Im not a colossal supergenius that can just look at these and be like "Well its obviously starch isnt it."

Lemme have a think.

Its going to be something like "time" or "history" or something meta like that.

***

Ok, my guess:

Spoiler

The periodic table?

But from 2004, before element 117 was synthesised.

The element symbols on the periodic table, there is no "Q" or "J", ergo, only 24 letters.

Not sure what it has to do with "waiting for me" though, all other clues add up.

 

Edited December 19, 2018 by p1t1o

[kerbiloid]

But unlikely an abstract entity like time can be composed of chemical elements.

P.S.
"evolutionary biochemistry"

(24, I've checked thrice)

Edited December 19, 2018 by kerbiloid

[p1t1o]

5 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

But unlikely an abstract entity like time can be composed of chemical elements.

Only if you take the meaning of "composed of 116 chemical elements" literally. Could be code for something.

But I've already made my guess

 

[Piatzin]

46 minutes ago, p1t1o said:

The periodic table?

Psh. Don't be ridiculous - it's obviously @kerbiloid's immortal dinosaur :D

[p1t1o]

@DAL59

The christmas hols have passed...I really want to know what the answer is!

[Ozymandias_the_Goat]

4 hours ago, p1t1o said:

@DAL59

The christmas hols have passed...I really want to know what the answer is!

If bagginsses doesn’t tell us the answer, then we eats it whole, yes preciousssss