Star Dust
December 31, 2009
To follow on from the blog entitled “On The Formation Of Suns And Their Planets…” AND as a sort-of tonic to Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s three part BBC documentary series, entitled ATOM, which was aired on the BBC earlier this year… I’d like to present an amazing book by Theodore Gray that merges the art of photography with the wonder of science… “The Elements!”
I’ve said it before… And I’ll say it again…
“If all life is simply comprised of chemicals that are made up of various atoms, which were born from the hearts of stars… Then consciousness is purely just a by product of the chemical reactions between the different components of star dust in our bodies… I do not possess a soul. Rather I am a soul, forged in the hearts of stars, burning brightly in all I do, experiencing only the Here and Now, witnessing the birth of future generations in the vast furnaces of the heavens above.”
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Praise for The Elements:
“This glorious book is more than just a guide to the elements; it will fundamentally deepen your appreciation of the substances that make up our world.”
-Oliver Sacks, author of Awakenings and Uncle Tungsten“This is the element book that in style and content outshines all element books! My reaction: elemental delight.”
-Roald Hoffmann, writer and Nobel Laureate“The book is gorgeous. I lost an hour after it arrived just diving into it.”
-Adam Savage, star of MythBusters
To get your own copy, please click here.
[...] nothing more than the result of billions of years of pattern formation that has arisen from all the star dust found here on planet Earth. We are fortunate to be a part of this wild and unfolding universal [...]
[...] framework of a body via the brain’s structure and ability; a body which is built from the star dust of ancient suns long extinguished, working on principles of chaos, weaving unpredictability into [...]
[...] distinguished by its atomic number, which is the number of protons in its nucleus. The term “element” is also used to refer to a pure chemical substance composed of atoms with the same number of [...]
[...] the humbling reminder of what we are i.e. a mixture of star dust and chaos, comes to mind. No one is bigger than the rest. We are all simply human. We live and then [...]
[...] These cells are, in turn, granted the ability to function in the ways that they do only because the atoms – the very building blocks of matter itself, which cells are built from along with their [...]
[...] the abstract patterns of creation that gave rise to the matter that our bodies are built from, now unfold in ever more complex ways… Ways that we seem to [...]
[...] relationship between order and chaos inherent within the solar system’s accreted mass of star dust… In fact this same strange and unexpected relationship between order and chaos resides at the [...]
[...] They’ve even managed to naturally find their way into the experiential textures of my mind’s dynamic… Textures that the brain seems to weave together through strange attractor like eddies that occur between various nodes and hierarchical synaptic electrical discharges that fire so readily between various clusters within the brain’s overall structure… This in turn allows a type of consciousness to form i.e. myself, to perceive the material ‘aspects’ of the environment that I presently find myself in… ‘Aspects’ that are continually changing/moving/shifting. Most of these transformations are commonly seen as material changes i.e. day to night OR hot water turning into cold water… Changes that are forged from the same principles and material i.e. atomic debris/fabric of the universe, that …. [...]
[...] (all of which are made up from the numerous atomic elements, which are really nothing more than star dust) gives rise an orchestration of consciousness that allows all of us i.e. each and every type of [...]