Astronomy
Space, the final frontier…
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Astronomy
Look up!
“The universe is a self-reconfiguring machine, with nothing being created from the void nor destroyed to nothing. At the core of reality are four forces guiding 17+ particles. We see these particles combine into atoms and molecules. Those molecules bundle into materials, and those materials evolve into life.” –M. A. Prestwood (Paraphrased from chapters 1 & 18 of 30 Philosophers)
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“We are all connected to each other biologically, to the Earth chemically, and to the rest of the universe atomically.”
- Carl Sagan
- circa 1980
We Are Stardust
TAKE-AWAY: Carl Sagan reminds us that we are intimately connected to the universe. The particles that form our bodies are borrowed from a cosmic pool of just 17 particles and four forces. Even more humbling, the molecules within us were forged in the hearts of stars, linking us directly to the vast cosmos that surrounds us.
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CRITICAL THINKING: Does the Fermi paradox lack good thinking?
CRITICAL THINKING: The Fermi Paradox.
TAKE-AWAY: Good thinking isn’t just about asking big questions like the Fermi Paradox—it’s about recognizing the biases that shape our answers and staying open to possibilities far beyond our current understanding.