This is a clever and quite lovely mashup of science, astro-physics, meta-physics, spirituality and rhythm. A dance floor Tao of Physics. I think I’ll let these bodhisattvas of science speak for themselves…what a wonderful collection of muses, of musical musings they give us…and John Boswell, the head musician and producer behind the Symphony of Science and this vid.
–noun Buddhism .
a person who has attained prajna, or Enlightenment, but who postpones Nirvana in order to help others to attain Enlightenment: individual Bodhisattvas are the subjects of devotion in certain sects and are often represented in painting and sculpture.
John Boswell
“We Are All Connected” was made from sampling Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, The History Channel’s Universe series, Richard Feynman’s 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye’s Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking’s Universe, Cosmos, the Powers of 10, and more. It is a tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music.
See my websites for more original music:
The Symphony of Science
Color Pulse Music
Enjoy!
We are all connected: to each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe, atomically. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Symphony of Science
‘We Are All Connected’
We are all connected
To each other — biologically
To the earth — chemically
To the rest of the universe — atomically
I think nature’s imagination
Is so much greater than man’s
She’s never going to let us relax
We live in an in-between universe
Where things change all right
But according to patterns, rules,
Or as we call them, laws of nature
I’m this guy standing on a planet
Really I’m just a speck (I’m just a speck)
Compared with a star
The planet is just another speck
To think about all of this
To think about the vast emptiness of space
There’s billions and billions of stars
Billions and billions of specks
The beauty of a living thing
Is not in the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We’re made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
Across the sea of space
The stars are other suns
We have traveled this way before
And there is much to be learned
We are all connected
To each other — biologically
To the earth — chemically
To the rest of the universe — atomically
I find it elevating and exhilerating
To discover that we live in a universe
Which permits the evolution of molecular machines
As intricate and subtle as we
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable
To phenomena in the cosmos
That makes me want to grab people in the street
And say, have you heard this??
The beauty of a living thing
Is not in the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We’re made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
There’s this tremendous mess
Of waves all over in space
Which is the light bouncing around the room
And going from one thing to another
And it’s all really there
(Really, really there)
But you gotta stop and think about it
About the complexity to really get the pleasure
And it’s all really there
(Really, really there)
The inconceivable nature of nature
To think about all of this
To think about the vast emptiness of space
There’s billions and billions of stars
Billions and billions of specks
The beauty of a living thing
Is not in the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We’re made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
Across the sea of space
The stars are other suns
We have traveled this way before
And there is much to be learned
I grew up with Carl Sagan, and in many ways, I am a scientist today beucsae of him.As long as he focused upon astronomy, he was one of the most outstanding scientists the world has ever known.His ability to express complex aspects of astronomy, in ways that the public could understand, will be difficult to equal.In his last few years, he lost my respect when he fell into the “Nuclear Winter” trap.He was no longer teaching astronomy, but some form of religion. He believed in it with all of his heart, but the science ended up being against him.Those primitive computer models ignored such simple things like wind, on the planet Earth.Let this be a lesson to all of us, that consider ourselves scientists.Carl Sagan taught me so many things, and perhaps his last lesson, was the most valuable of them all.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Victor.
Yeah, Sagan –particularly his Cosmos series — had a profound effect on my world view as well.
I do remember quite vividly the Cold War fear of nuclear winter.
In defense of Sagan and the hundreds if not thousands of other scientists, they were working with the best science available at the time… the best any scientist can do. Hindsight is a luxury enjoyed by those who live on the other sidea of breakthroughs.
Moreover, nuclear winter as a theory appears to have not gone away, with studies being done in the past decade providing evidence in support. Recent studies have shown not only climate change but the potential for seriously damaging or depleting the ozone layer. Ozone depletion on such a scale as resulting from a nuclear war between Pakistan and India could result in lethal amounts of solar radiation reaching the earth’s surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter