12. You are the universe experiencing itself.
Your atoms were once inside stars.
Your consciousness?
A fragment of something much bigger.
You’re not in the universe.
You ARE the universe
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12. You are the universe experiencing itself. Your atoms were once inside stars. Your consciousness? A fragment of something much bigger. You’re not in the universe. You ARE the universe Read this book for proof: https://t.co/cMajBpUPZ0
As physicist Paul Davies writes in The Goldilocks Enigma (Allen Lane, 2006): Somehow the universe has engineered, not just its own awareness, but also its own comprehension. Mindless, blundering atoms have conspired to make not just life, but understanding. The evolving cosmos has spawned beings who are able not merely to watch the show, but to unr
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“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
Sari Azout • 10 things worth sharing this week
When stars explode at death, all the matter that built up in their outer shells gets blown out into interstellar space. Carbon, oxygen, silicon, gold, and silver were all floating around as clouds of elements in space, then gravity pulled them together to form the planets. This is how the planet Earth formed with its ninety-two natural elements, al
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