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Originally Posted by SilverTrees
Thank you for the marvelous contributions Lonely Chemist! I too am in awe of the Universe. The idea of a limitless expanse makes me feel equal parts humble and curious! My partner watches videos about space most nights before he goes to sleep. He was looking at the images of black holes the other day. He's thoroughly intrigued.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I think you have a beautiful mind  |
Neil DeGrasse Tyson once was asked, "What is the most astounding fact about the Universe?"
He replied,
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The most astounding fact [about the universe] 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 clouds 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. You want to feel relevant. You want to feel like you are a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are just by being alive
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I particularly like the italic part.
Congratulations on having a partner who's interested in astronomy! My (potential
) partner could not care less about his studies of chemistry and geology at undergrad level. Let alone something like astronomy. Only if shared similar interests, I'd have had a massive profit (LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL)
Thank you for your compliment. It is my dream to be a part of the scientific community. It's after all, the only place where bias and all negative things are kept at minimum.