GAINING PERSPECTIVE
There are three books that drastically altered my concept of the universe: The Cosmic Mind Boggling Book by Neil McAleer, Galaxies by Timothy Ferris, and Visions of the Universe by Dr. Raman Prinja. Could such a vast and complex universe as ours have come about purely by random chance? You be the judge. To help put things in perspective, let’s take two journeys: one across our universe, and the other into the realm of atoms. Fasten your seat belt and let the journey begin. On the first leg of our trip, we are going to take a journey to the sun. If there were a highway from earth to the sun, at fifty-five miles per hour, it would take us approximately 193 years to drive there. Now, since we’re having such a great time, let’s say we decide to take a little drive on over to Proxima Centauri, which is one of the stars in the Alpha
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