I had been introduced to Khan Academy a while back but never really got hooked or spent the time figuring it out. Last night, my girlfriend mentioned it and turned me back onto it. I enjoy re-visiting these mind blowing concepts occasionally, so I took a look at the Supernova video (below). Thinking in astronomical terms allows me to feel lightly out of body and reminds me of what we really are... we are the result of iterations of randomness.
This video and the concept itself made me think...wow, we are really lucky to be alive. We, and everything in our realm of existence is basically the result of atoms being randomly but methodically blasted and squeezed together by incredible forces. Luckily, over billions of years, the right combination of temperature, physical and spatial elements combined and created a living organism which adapted to its environment and allowed us to become who we are today.
We are extraordinarily lucky to simply exist, moreover here and now. I always wonder, with such a transient speck of existence, why as individuals, do we feel so important? Why are we so afraid of doing simple things or failing? Nobody cares, soon It will all be over just as randomly as we came to be. I mean, just look up to the sky, there are FREAKING HUGE galaxies out there, we are merely quarks existing for fractions of a millisecond in this universe.
This video and the concept itself made me think...wow, we are really lucky to be alive. We, and everything in our realm of existence is basically the result of atoms being randomly but methodically blasted and squeezed together by incredible forces. Luckily, over billions of years, the right combination of temperature, physical and spatial elements combined and created a living organism which adapted to its environment and allowed us to become who we are today.
We are extraordinarily lucky to simply exist, moreover here and now. I always wonder, with such a transient speck of existence, why as individuals, do we feel so important? Why are we so afraid of doing simple things or failing? Nobody cares, soon It will all be over just as randomly as we came to be. I mean, just look up to the sky, there are FREAKING HUGE galaxies out there, we are merely quarks existing for fractions of a millisecond in this universe.
