“The most
astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth,
the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that
cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme
temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them went
unstable in their later years they collapsed and then exploded scattering their
enriched guts across the galaxy guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all
the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of
gas cloud that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems
stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for
life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we
are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important
than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that
fact, I look up – many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe
is big – but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a
level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel
connected, and you want to feel relevant you want to feel like a participant in
the goings on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we
are, just by being alive…”
-Neil
DeGrasse Tyson
I want you
all to go right now to this video and watch it. I want you to watch it and take
in every word, every image that is shown.
And I want
you to ponder.
Ponder what
he says. Ponder what is shown to you, for the things he says are truly worth
thinking about. He is basically saying that we, us lowly Homo sapiens, are the
universe. We are all connected in some crazy weird way, and that way is in the
fact that a star went supernova, and gave its ingredients to create our planet
so that it could sustain life; our life.
It’s alright
if you cry while watching this video, I did too. It is also okay to watch it
more than once, for I did too. I went to my room, locked the door, blocked out
all visible light, and I just played it over and over again. It has a soothing
feel to it, but if you truly think about what is being said, It can really put
your mind, body, and soul at rest too.
~Blog Out~
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