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| origin, from the macro to the micro
Janet Kuypers 12/7/16 The thought of it has always gone through our heads. Where did we come from. How did this all begin. When we think of when our mom held us we were little we wonder, there has to be something more. Something bigger, something more, this was ingrained into our American heads. We look up to the stars — and yes, some did that, to understand the greatness of not only our world, but of the entire cosmos. Scientists figured out the laws of physics on the macro. This is their heaven. And that is where everything works. I look at the gold wedding band and engagement ring on my hand, and think of the gold, the titanium — elements we value so much here on planet earth because they are so rare. But thanks to astronomy we know that when the Universe was formed, the only elements around were small, hydrogen, maybe helium. It was only when these energetic atoms gained mass that they clumped together and formed the first stars. Elements from carbon to iron are produced in the cores of stars, in high temp fusion reactions there. But what about those heavy rare elements we ascribe so much value to? Well, the scientists researched (that’s what they do), until they discovered that collisions of neutron stars in our cosmos have the energy to produce elements heavier than iron. An astronomer named Berger even said that “they do it efficiently enough that they can account for all the gold that’s been produced in the universe.” You might think that the death of a star is a nasty thing — and it is — but that science makes what we love. Wow, I love quoting astronomers when it works out so beautifully like that. But this is micro — I’m only thinking locally here, with the metal on my hands, the hematite I wear, like what Mars rovers found. I can look at mountains and canyons from ice age melts hear a babbling brook or see a flower in bloom... And when I look around, I think that these work too — but now put it all on a celestial scale, to observe a close encounter between a small galaxy and the outer edge of a larger galaxy, sending it spinning, to form arms of a new spiral galazy, not much unlike our own Milky Way. The elements in our bodies are formed by the stars. So make the macro micro, since we’re made of stardust. Remember the static on your television is not unlike the cosmic radiation scientists found when studying the universe, when they accidentally discovered the noise from the Big Bang. Wow, it almost makes me starry-eyed to think of what astronomical theoreticians may come up with next, since a scientist’s job is to postulate theories, then work to prove or disprove. And really, how beautiful is that? Because once you get the right equations, micro or macro, that is when everything truly works. |
