In it, Prof Brian Cox talked about how all the elements that make up our bodies - and all the elements that make up everything on Terrestrial - were formed in ancient stars. "Whichever happen as expected of you and me was put-on in the furnaces of space," he thought.
Yes, we are stardust; we are all finished of stars; and every man and every woman is a star - to quote two songs, one write down and one celebrated occult marks.
Stardust was a fascinating documentary - and very pagan gone it was about hard science. It started with Brian Cox attending a Hindu wake on the banks of the Ganges and explaining that everything that dies is reborn. Whichever element that makes up our bodies has in the when been part of other bodies - breed, nature, vegetation and the very rocks that make up our planet. After we die persons elements decision return to the earth to become new vegetation, nature and human beings.
Of course, he was lingo about this in a physical savor - bit he was likewise stirring on questions of metaphysics such as what are we and where do we come from?
I found that this helped me come to language with the death of my mother view week.
Her name was Stella. And she was a star.
The BBC series is given away on Sunday evenings on BBC2 at 9pm and in it Prof Brian Cox tells the massive story of our foundation and shows how its story is likewise our story. Programmes on BBC TV Channels are in total here and there in to guard on iPlayer for at negligible a week whilst they are shown: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
Based on the series, the sign up book Wonders of the Universeis here and there in outspoken Amazon as is the Wonders of the Hole [DVD] [2011]
Getting on attached posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/03/my-mother.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/03/my-mother-has-died.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/10/quantum-tarot-20-tarot-of-physics.html