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Cosmology.

Quick Hits

10 random key ideas.

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In 1925, Cecilia Payne showed that stars are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, overturning Earth-centered assumptions about the universe.
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Change is the only form of permanence that exists—first glimpsed by ancient thinkers, and now woven into the fabric of modern science.
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From History: 4.3 Billion Years Ago
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Infinity is a powerful rational idea used to describe patterns, limits, and unending processes, but it is not something we directly observe as a completed physical object.
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Nicolaus Copernicus judged ideas not by tradition or authority, but by how well they fit the evidence.
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From History: born 1564.
Galileo, the Father of Modern Physics, showed that careful observation and math could overturn ancient certainty.
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We do not know the ultimate fate of the universe, but the leading ideas are that it expands forever, collapses and starts over, or ends in something more extreme.
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Wisdom begins with perspective. We are are expressions of the universe. The particles making up your body are ancient, borrowed for a time from a universe much older than you.
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From History: 180 Million years ago (+/- 5 million)
The breakup of Pangaea did not just reshape geography. It reshaped evolution by isolating populations, limiting movement, and allowing different branches of life to follow different paths.
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Eight planets. A planet is a celestial body that orbits a star, is spherical due to its own gravity, and has cleared its orbit of other debris.

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