Our Body and Atoms
The conversation between research assistant to a physics professor at the university and his girlfriend, her quest for knowledge. From the novel Brida by Paulo Coelho “Just look at that sky. What we’re looking at now is how the sky would have appeared thousands of years ago. Many of those stars have already died, and yet their light still fills the Universe. Other stars were born far away, and their light has not yet reached us.” “So no one knows what the real sky looks like?” “We don’t know. We study what we can see, but what we see is not always what exists.” “What are we made of ? Where did the atoms that make up our bodies come from?” “They were created along with these stars and this river. In the first second of the Universe’s existence.” “So after that first moment of Creation, nothing more was added.” “No, nothing. Everything moved and continues to move. Everything was transformed and continues to be tra...