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Very interesting,
I went and checked out the web site, and added it to my favorites. I had been looking for a site like this one.
posted by
justAcarpenter
on November 24, 2004 at 2:46 PM
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westwind
My best guess is the first hebrew one, the one about the galaxy, or at least the nearby stars. The light reflected from your body which could be seen by a telescope as well as the radiation from heat and electromagnetic activity generated by your body goes out into space at the speed of light. In the eighty or so years of our lives, this energy reaches most of the stars visible to the naked eye. Tiny though it is, it is never lost. After our deaths, the source is cut off, but the impulse travels on, joined to all the other light in our galaxy. All the life and all the light in the whole galaxy is joined and becomes a single beacon that reaches all the other galaxies. Our usual human response to things that are smaller than us, at least before the science of the last century, is that it is unimportant. Maybe it is only that response that is unimportant.
posted by
pappy
on November 22, 2004 at 4:07 PM
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