21/01/2011
My love affair
I love science; it describes so elegantly the universe around us. I can see why people see it as lists of dry, arcane facts with no real application; but what science describes, allows not only our life, but our enjoyment of it. Physics describes wave motion through gas, which our brains interpret as music, or words. Light activates chemical groups in your eye that allow you to see the world around you, and through billions of years of evolution, biology describes the process by which the entire world lives. The waste you breathe out is used by plants to grow, and every breath we take in is full of vital oxygen because of plants. Our oceans exist as liquid because water is a bent molecule, allowing ice to float instead of sink; preventing a frozen wasteland from forming. There is so much beauty around us, when you stop to really contemplate what is in and around us, a sense of sublime humility washes over. The components that make you up, allow you to think, and feel, have existed always, have been on this earth for billions of years, and for this blink of an eye, you have the opportunity to utilize a wondrously complex make up of chemicals to experience life. To make it better for those around you, to bring joy and beauty into the world. Before our earth was even a molten lump, a star emitted a photon. Every time you look up into the night sky, streams of those photons end their journey as beauty in our minds.
From a series called Symphony of Science
