To wonder how anyone can read this without their head exploding!

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Not literally obviously! But the ideas and scale of space I just find completely mind blowing! After a few minutes I just have to think about something else!

www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/16/astronomers-witness-neutron-stars-collide-global-rapid-response-event-ligo

It is always a head exploding type of topic.

I love that sciences have started to combine and are no longer the isolated chemistry, physics, biology and never the twain shall meet!

It's all physics anyway. Anything else is stamp-collecting.
(Said by Ernest Rutherford, allegedly. He may have been biased.)

The heroes of biology have slain one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, while the heroes of physics gathered in the desert to create a new one - Randall Munroe, xkcd.com/1520/

(Whatever the topic, there is always a relevant xkcd )

Lakie there's actually a series of physics books for babies. About quantum physics, astrophysics, general relativity, ect.

When I was a practising Catholic and used to go to Ash Wednesday services the priest would tell us to remember we were dust and to dust we would return.

Some literal truth there?

MN rocks sometimes. Bacon sandwiches, MLM FB crisis and utterly profound, scientific, mind-blowing stuff in the space of 5 minutes.

Lemon I am with you, utterly clueless and completely unable to understand it all. I half wondered if they were lying too. They could lie all they like to me and I wouldn't have a clue.

What does this mean - Everything in the universe was once crammed into a space smaller than a pinhead - that's you, me, Mount Everest, Jupiter, meerkats, pom bears and all the rest?

It's probably not worth answering my question because I won't understand the answer!

I'd love to read an answer to your question Nicecuppatea21 even though I am unlikely to understand it too but this is fascinating stuff. Even bioscientist dh did not know about how gold came to be on earth.

When I was a practising Catholic and used to go to Ash Wednesday services the priest would tell us to remember we were dust and to dust we would return. Interesting

I seem to have stumbled into the intelligent posters thread! I have bookmarked at page 2 somewhere and so will read more when I have time to read it! Because I love this kind of stuff even if I don't understand a lot of it!