Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it.
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.
Specifically with respect to the Inhumans, they are almost a mythological creation in and of themselves – the way they work, the way they operate, the fact that they’re royalty – and they’ve always been involved with a lot of the big cosmos events that Marvel has done.
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there’s inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big Bang and a time when the cosmic chemistry set had enough ingredients to make rocky planets (and squishy biology).
I find the world with its inequities and injustices to be messy, unfair, and complicated. The cosmos, on the other hand, is orderly and beautiful – this I find terribly alluring and captivating.
By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don’t think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there’s only going to be life on Earth, and that’s it.
Astonishingly powerful and poignant, ‘Gravity’ is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.
Belief and trust in the power of the Cosmos gives even the most chaotic life a new sense of order and purpose.
How the original ‘Cosmos’ affected me personally was long-term. I wasn’t born early enough to see the original series, but after getting a hold of it in my teen years, it was one of the driving forces behind my passion for science.
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