Do you know the story of the universe? Have you taken in the immensities of time and space? Do you have a sense of a 14 billion year continuum from a speck of pure energy to everything we can see around us?
Much of the time we’re intertwined in our daily events–family, food, work, maybe some exercise and recreation. And then there are…
Every human culture organizes itself with a fundamental story or a group of stories that expresses its primary meanings and values.
Fish emerged out of primitive life forms on ancient ocean floors. Scientists aren’t sure but they probably came from starfish, tunicates or conodants (now extinct).
Planet earth has been around some five billion years and gone through many phases. The earth has been a molten ball. The earth has had climatic events such as the early lightning storms that did not just light up the sky but were so huge that the electromagnetic power in them gripped the surface of [...]
While still controversial among scientists, Gaia Theory offers one of the best overall pictures of how our planet works. It postulates that biological life in its myriad forms plays a role in the regulation of the Earth’s climate to provide hospitable living conditions. The economy of the Earth (i.e., the management of resources) is organized [...]
In his new book, The Sun’s Heartbeat, Bob Berman writes an expose on the Sun. He starts with the human quest for knowledge of the Sun. Ancient civilizations, the Greeks, Galileo and all the science heroes and heroines all played a role to bring our current understanding to light. The Sun, it turns out, is [...]
Look around you. All the people, trees, birds, water, land and the sky—everything you see came out of the vast, wide universe. In the beginning, a single quantum of infinitesimally tiny energy brought forth hundreds of billions of galaxies each with two hundred billion stars or more. Solar systems formed around some of the stars. [...]
The story of the universe presents a startling new picture of our origins and journey over time. No one could have imagined what we now know of the universe, the earth and humans a couple of hundred years ago. It’s a total surprise. The story of the universe is based on the scientific discoveries of [...]
From a single quantum of energy at the beginning of time the entire universe pours forth. The universe expands and cools. Atoms form. Massive clumps of atoms form into majestic spirals and ellipses. Stars burst forth in the newly formed galaxies. Supernovas blast the galaxies with new elements. Out of one supernova blast comes our [...]