Super Blue Blood Moon 2018

I never thought I was going to be reading about physics. But today I finished a book that beautifully mixed physical theory with history, nature and emotions. I cannot believe that finally in my 30s I can find find wonder in physics. Magnificent laws, mysterious and unfinished conclusions. I learned about time, space, stardust,  heat, neurons, emotions and human nature. All in less than 90 pages.

Tonight there is a Super Blue Blood Moon. Besides appreciating it with my eyes, tonight I am amazed by the fact that we are all made by the same elementary particles. We are all the same stardust. 

Below are some of my favorite quotes

““We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can’t help but be: a part of our world.””

““Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.” ”

““Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us.””

““There are frontiers where we are learning, and our desire for knowledge burns. They are in the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, at the origins of the cosmos, in the nature of time, in the phenomenon of black holes, and in the workings of our own thought processes. Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.” ”

““We are made up of the same atoms and the same light signals as are exchanged between pine trees in the mountains and stars in the galaxies.” ”