30 April 2012

Star dust and multiverses

It's almost impossible to imagine, but less than 80 years ago, we lived in a static universe that was the Milky Way... that was it. One galaxy making up the totality of the universe we knew of and lived in. And it was as it is, and would always be.

Today we live in an evolving exponentially expanding universe, made up of hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars, clumped together in clusters and super-clusters, linked by filaments, held in place by dark matter and pushed apart by [the dominant force of] dark energy.

More than that the math suggests that not one but trillions were created in the Big Bang [super string theory], each in it's own unique dimension of space... a multiverse.

And it's possible that the Big Bang which created this multiverse, was not the first nor will be the last... big bang.

We also know that every atom in in our body, and making up our planet, was at some point created in the belly of a star. From star dust we are made and to star dust we will return.

Extraordinary... I am simply astounded. I find it humbling, liberating and empowering. And I ask, can I hold this big vision while simultaneously going about my daily activities, and how would that change, how I behave?

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