Who am I?

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Who am I indeed? We tend to define ourselves in terms of names, family history, birthplace, nationality, culture, religion, or profession. But such parameters only define who we have "become" rather than who we really are. To more accurately define myself, I can safely say that I am a lucky configuration of cosmic dust, fighting for only a few decades against the eternal and unconquerable forces of entropy. Soon the fight will be over, entropy will win (as it always does), and I shall go back to who I really used to always be: part of the cosmic dust that is ultimately recycled in this vast universe !

Monday, July 28, 2008

Dust to Dust


We humans have a very feeble view of who we really are. At the cosmic scale, we are less significant than a speck of dust.

No one is from Tanzania, or the UK, or India, or Japan, or Australia, or Brazil, or Canada, or France.

Where we are really from is shown in this picture, and all of us, together with our entire surroundings and the solar system we live in, will eventually be recycled into star dust again.

Star dust is what we used to be before we started to exist as living beings and star dust is what we will always look like after our last spark of life is extinguished.

If the life of the Universe is compressed down to only one single year, then the life span of our entire human civilization is only 10 seconds.
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1 comment:

Gibb said...

Great Blog! I'm excited to read about all your scientific facts and thoughts. Now, if we could only make your blog 3D!

August 15, 2008 at 12:12 AM

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