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| Our journey to understand the nature of everything around us begins from a truly momentous event. It was nearly 10-15 billion years ago that a… hot dense explosion took place. A universe shaping event, it has come to be termed, the Big Bang… Following this spectacular explosion, some 300 thousand years after the Big Bang the rapidly expanding universe cooled enough… The original element probably formed was the hydrogen atom - Gravity condensed the hydrogen atoms into galaxies with billions of stars. Eventually, some of the first generation of stars exploded. It is from the debris of the explosion of one of such first generation of stars that our own solar system was formed. We are all made of stardust, as is everything that surrounds us. |
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| We don't own the atoms that makeup our body - we are simply their present caretakers. There will be many caretakers to follow. Atoms are so small that there are more than 10 billion trillions of them in each breathe we exhale - and we inhale atoms that were once part of everyone who has ever lived. |
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| We are literally breathing one another. In a way we are all one. We are all the children of a star. Let's explore the fascinating world of atoms. |
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