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26 January 2012

schnee

nach sechs wochen arbeiten in england, ganz in der naehe des englischen kanals,





und lustiger zeit mit laura, noam und paul in london





wieder in frankreich angekommen und sofort wieder unterwegs, in die pyrenaen zum skiurlaub, sieben erwachsene zwei kinder...





06:54:19 - ulrika -

05 January 2012

andromeda



entschuldigung an diejeniegen die es lieber auf deutsch hätten, hab ich für einen newsletter geschrieben, deswegen englisch... sorry...

what inspires me these days is the universe. i try to grasps its existence, its age and size, understand its beginning and working, and because this is just so much over the limits of my minds capacity to understand and see i often just let my mind be blown away by the few simple facts i know.

for example andromeda. that is a galaxy, the one closest to our own galaxy. we can see it on the night sky, its a little below cassiopeia, the w -shaped constellation. what we can see looks like a star, a tiny little dot shining. but in fact its trillions of stars unimaginable far away. its so far away, that its light took 2,5 million years to arrive on earth. so what we see is far far away and ago in the past, it is older then human mankind. 2,5 million years ago we were just in our beginnings.

the andromeda galaxy is approaching our galaxy with 140 kilometers per second. both galaxies are expected to collide in 4.5 billion years.

or the magic tale about the elements. all matter on earth and in the universe is made of 92 different chemical elements. they are born in fusion which needs incredible amounts of energy. this energy is only reached when a star dies, when gravity makes it fall in onto himself and the star finally explodes in a supernova. that is the process in which elements are fused and we and all which exsists as matter on this earth and everywhere are made of these elements born in a dying star. all now more complex combinations of matter we are made of came from supernoves in the beginning of their existence and then took the time the earth exists to form things so incredibly wondrous like cells of the eyes which are sensitive to light...

i am not a scientific person, so i am afraid my view of these things is amateurish and maybe even incorrect.
it puts things in a different perspective for me, i try to find this perspective, which is the hugest and widest i ever catched a glimpse of, and its so much bigger then i could ever really beheld of...
05:50:09 - ulrika -