Marvel, Wonder...

... One of the most powerful motivations that led

Man towards art and science was the desire to
escape the quotidian
Albert Einstein

Marvel at life
and the
world

Let us take for example something as banal and

known as the sun.

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.

This is a dying
star, situated at
three thousand
light years from
us.
A lightyear is
about ten
thousand billion
kilometers.

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.

The Orion
nebula is
situated at
1500 light
years from
us.

This stellar system

resembles ours very much.
It has about three hundred
billion stars like our sun.

In the
observable
universe, there
are at least a
hundred billion
stellar systems,
each of which
have an average
of 150 billion
stars.

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).

Let us now pass on to

the microcosm from the
macrocosm.

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.

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.

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.

The brain
accomplishes twenty
million billion
calculations per
second, which
represents a speed
that is millions of
times the speed of a
computer.

So, marvel at all this!

at the perfect
symmetry of a
snowflake to...

the beauty of a
snowscape.

Fill yourselves with wonder at

the earth...

 and other worlds.

from the smallest

 to the biggest

marvel at
man as an
embryo

 to man at the
height of his
achievement.

Savour the pleasure of a

sunset...

 the pleasure of a photo

showing a planet -rise.

Look at the complexity

of a leaf.

 and the
mathematical regularity
of a piece of broccoli.

Let us end with these words from

the meister :

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

The End
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