You're alive! Fact. You have a past. Fact. You are younger now, than you are now. Transience can leave a person feeling blue. Assuming you are at least three years old, your brain contains about one quadrillion synapses (structures that allow nerve cells to pass electrical or chemical signals). Human bodies are fascinating, sure, but in most respects, they are limited, finite. If time were a women, we'd be her bunnies, or maybe her fingernail polish.


While we cannot fully comprehend the concept of infinity, we can toy with the idea through art and science, particularly astronomy and classical music. Maybe, in pushing the envelope containing that which is human and finite, we will make discoveries efficacious of love and awe... we shall take time to indulge.


We learn from history that we do not learn from history. So, well, maybe, we can try our best, and enjoy our lives. Remember: the world is big and full of many good things. Enough of my nonsense? I think so. Without further ado, I'll say 'adieu' and reference some experts who better explain the transcendent power of and similarities between astronomy and classical music.



Saturday, November 24, 2012

This book


"In A Short History of Nearly Everything, beloved author Bill Bryson confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as his territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. The result is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it." 

http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything-Illustrated/dp/0307885151/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353789983&sr=8-1&keywords=a+brief+history+of+nearly+everything

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