Living with the Stars How the Human Body is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars
Living with the Stars How the Human Body is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars
- ISBN 13:
9780198835912
- ISBN 10:
0198835914
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 03/17/2019
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
We rebuild using elements captured from our surroundings, and are thereby connected to animals and plants around us, and to the bacteria within us that help digest them, and to geological processes such as continental drift and volcanism here on Earth. We are also intimately linked to the Sun's nuclear furnace and to the solar wind, to collisions with asteroids and to the cycles of the birth of stars and their deaths in cataclysmic supernovae, and ultimately to the beginning of the universe. Our bodies are made of the burned out embers of stars that were released into the galaxy in massive explosions billions of years ago, mixed with atoms that formed only recently as ultrafast rays slammed into Earth's atmosphere. All of that is not just remote history but part of us now: our human body is inseparable from nature all around us and intertwined with the history of the universe.