Marvel, Wonder...

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• Marvel, Wonder...

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• ... One of the most powerful motivations that
  led Man towards art and science was the desire to
  escape the quotidian
• Albert Einstein

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Marvel at life and the world
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Let us take for example something as banal and
known as the sun.
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The sun is a star, a million times bigger than
the earth. Every second, the sun consumes six
hundred million tons of hydrogen. It will
continue to do so for another five billion years
before being extinguished.
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This is a dying star, situated at three thousand
light years from us. A lightyear is about ten
thousand billion kilometers.
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This nebula is millions of times bigger tahn our
solar system. It is here that stars like our
sun are born. Nebulae are the delivery wards of
our universe.
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The Orion nebula is situated at 1500 light years
from us.
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This stellar system resembles ours very much. It
has about three hundred billion stars like our
sun.
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In the observable universe, there are at least a
hundred billion stellar systems, each of which
have an average of 150 billion stars.
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This picture represents the observable universe.
Its a huge ball, with a diameter of 28 billion
light years, containing 15 trillion suns. A
trillion is 1 followed by 21 zeroes (1000 000 000
000 000 000 000).
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Let us now pass on to the microcosm from the
macrocosm.
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Our body contains a hundred thousand billion
cells, which work together so that we can live
for several decades. There are hundreds of sorts
of cells each sort having its own function,
its own age and its own place in the body and
which are in constant communication with each
other.
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Our brain is composed of 100 billion brain cells
each of which is connected to thousands of other
cells.So, in our head, there are a hundred
thousand billion connections, that is to say, as
many as there are stars in a thousand Milky Ways.
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Certain brain cells, like the Purkinje cell shown
here, have contacts with 250 000 other cells.
These Purkinje cells are important for learning
automatic reflex actions, like driving a car.
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The brain accomplishes twenty million billion
calculations per second, which represents a speed
that is millions of times the speed of a computer.
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So, marvel at all this!
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at the perfect symmetry of a snowflake to...
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the beauty of a snowscape.
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Fill yourselves with wonder at the earth...
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and other worlds.
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from the smallest
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to the biggest
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marvel at man as an embryo
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to man at the height of his achievement.
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Savour the pleasure of a sunset...
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the pleasure of a photo showing a planet -rise.
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Look at the complexity of a leaf.
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and the mathematical regularity of a piece of
broccoli.
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Let us end with these words from the meister
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There are times when one feels liberated from
ones limits and human imperfections. At such
moments, we see ourselves there, in a little
corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in
wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that
which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life
and death are fused together and there is no
evolution, nor destination, there is only
BEING. Albert Einstein
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The End

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