0:00:01.680,0:00:08.200 What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe? 0:00:08.200,0:00:12.000 The most astounding fact 0:00:12.000,0:00:14.803 is the knowledge 0:00:14.803,0:00:20.000 that the atoms that comprise life on Earth 0:00:20.000,0:00:23.637 the atoms that make up the human body 0:00:23.637,0:00:30.618 are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements 0:00:30.618,0:00:34.249 into heavy elements in their core 0:00:34.249,0:00:36.520 under extreme temperatures and pressures 0:00:36.520,0:00:40.000 These stars, the high mass ones among them 0:00:40.000,0:00:43.283 went unstable in their later years 0:00:43.283,0:00:50.892 they collapsed and then exploded scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy 0:00:50.892,0:00:55.655 guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen 0:00:55.655,0:00:59.323 and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself 0:00:59.323,0:01:03.117 These ingredients become part of gas cloud that 0:01:03.117,0:01:08.828 condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems 0:01:08.828,0:01:16.102 stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself 0:01:16.102,0:01:19.108 So that when I look up at the night sky 0:01:19.108,0:01:24.200 and I know that yes, we are part of this universe 0:01:24.200,0:01:30.640 we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts 0:01:30.640,0:01:34.748 is that the Universe is in us. 0:01:34.748,0:01:38.446 When I reflect on that fact, I look up- 0:01:38.446,0:01:41.062 many people feel small because they're small and the Universe is big- 0:01:41.062,0:01:48.717 but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. 0:01:48.717,0:01:51.785 There's a level of connectivity. 0:01:51.785,0:01:56.292 That's really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant 0:01:56.292,0:02:01.160 you want to feel like a participant in the goings on 0:02:01.160,0:02:03.834 of activities and events around you 0:02:03.834,0:02:09.120 That's precisely what we are, just by being alive...