Recently I have returned to one of my loves, science and it's applications within our universe.
One thing has become abundantly clear, the reality of our universe, is far more impressive and fascinating than any Science Fiction book, or holy text describing the creation of the universe.
If you take just 2 seconds to look outside into the stars, you will be gazing into billions of years of history, not just lights in the sky, but history, living history, of stars that may have gone supernova many billions of years past.
When you actually start to take an interest in the vast machine that is the universe, you realise how insignificant, and yet significant you really are, one of untold billions of planets, and yet, within the few lightyears away from our planet, the only known life.
This spawned the most poetic phrase in physics "Humans are made from stardust", and it's true, not science fiction, we're the remnants of huge stars that exploded, sending their atoms billions upon billions of lightyears into space, to create the planets, and ultimately, life.
How can you look at the universe and not be fascinated, or think "My religion explains it better" or anything like that. That's mind boggling to me.
If you think that you being here doesn't matter, if just being here isn't enough for you, then you really need to look at this video to know how amazing it is that you exist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlP6znMKnr8
Narrated by the great Morgan Freeman
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