I spent the last 30 years of my working life contracted to ESA. In all those years I have never heard this well known story explained so succinctly. Thank you so much Professor Burnell.
She's right about female physics professors being a bit more insane than the already insane male ones. One of my professors live tweeted tumble drying a towel
i dedicate this to my friend Gururaja Rao my ertswhile colleague in A.D.E. Bangalore who was a great astophysics enthusiast. Unfortunately nature took him away a few years back!
I Remember asking My Grandma About Anything Interesting that she knew about Ancient Aztecs/Mayans and she Told me that Our Ancestors use to Emphasize that " We Came From the Stars" Now I don't know if This Lady and The Aztecs Knew each other but Apparently Have the same Idea. 😎
The catastrophic explosion of a star reminds me of something similar I witness in nature namely ' pollenation' when the seeds burst out of ripened fruit or flower of a plant to aid in dispersal and germination. Is this the way nature work ? I wonder !
Actually, the 1st and 2nd generation stars of the universe are called seed stars. They literally seeded the universe with the elements needed for life to be able to exist..
It’s not clear to me whether some of the planets are formed before the star sparks into life or they are made after. It may be both in a dynamic system…..ever evolving…..never static.
You could even compare earth to what is was portrayed as in Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. An enormous supercomputer. Yes, the 7 billion minds on this planet form a supercomputer, albeit with excruciatingly high latency due to communication speeds never exceeding about 10 bytes/second(speech). But what has been achieved on this planet was never done by a single individual, but by many. On that note, Elon Musk's neuralink is intended to remove that 10b/sec barrier.
whoa whoa whoa hold up, those answers came from evangelical students in rural America lololol. Every urban citizen of a modern country reserves the right to disassociate themselves from those who live in backroads!!!
Because it is believed that all life was once in the water but then one fish came out on land and adapted to live on it which later led to further evolution of life on land....and in turn us humans
