Marvel at the Universe

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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 theworld


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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 oursolar system.

It is here that

stars like our sun

are born.

Nebulae are the

delivery wards of

our universe.


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The rion

nebula is

situated at!"## 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

observableuniverse, there

are at least a

hundred billion

stellar systems,

each of which

have an averageof !"# billion

stars.


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This $icture

re$resents the

observable

universe.

It%s a huge ball,

with a diameter

of &' billion light

years, containing

!" trillion suns.

A trillion is !

followed by &!

(eroes )!### ###

### ### ### ######*.


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Let us now pass on to

the microcosm from the

macrocosm.


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ur 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 $lace in the body

+ and which are in constant communication with each other.


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ur brain is

com$osed of !##

billion brain cells

each of which is

connected tothousands of other

cells.o, in our head,

there are a hundred

thousand billion

connections, that is to

say, as many as thereare stars in a

thousand Milky -ays.


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ertain brain cells,

like the /urkin0e cell

shown here, havecontacts with &"# ###

other cells.

These /urkin0e cells

are im$ortant for

learning automaticreflex actions, like

driving a car.


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The brainaccom$lishes twenty

million billion

calculations $er

second, which

re$resents a s$eed

that is millions of

times the s$eed of a

com$uter.


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o, marvel at all this1


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2at the $erfect

symmetry of a

snowflake to...

the beauty of a


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2the beauty of a

snowsca$e.


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3ill yourselves with wonder at

the earth...


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2 and other worlds.


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from the smallest 2


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2 to the biggest


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2marvel at

man as an

embryo


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2 to man at theheight of his

achievement.


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avour the $leasure of a

sunset...


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2 the $leasure of a $hoto

showing a $lanet 4rise.


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5ook at the com$lexity

of a leaf.

and the


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2 and the

mathematical regularity

of a $iece of broccoli.


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5et us end with these words fromthe meister 6


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“There are times when one

feels liberated from one’s

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 iseternal, that which is

elusive.

Life and death are fused

toether and there is no

evolution, nor destination,there is only !"#$%.”

Albert "instein


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