20 Essential Scientific Facts of Life
1. You are unique, with your own special place in the Universe. 2. All your energy, your life, your vision, originates from solar radiation absorbed and transformed by our planet's web of life. 3. The atoms forming you right now are ashes from blown up stars. Over 96% of the atoms are Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen. The remaining 4% are mostly Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Sulphur. 4. The atoms in you right now are the exact same atoms that formed our planet 4.5 billion years ago. You take them from the planet and arrange them in new patterns to become you. 5. You flow the planet's atoms through your body, replacing even the calcium in your bones and teeth. In three months you will have replaced more than 50% of your atoms with new ones. In a year, 80 to 98% of the atoms will be new. A year ago you were completely different earth atoms. Next year you will be "materially" new, again. 6. You are the dance of more than 100 trillion litt...