Isaac Asimov - Science

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English

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Young Adult (18-35)

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British (England - East Anglia, Cambridge, Hertfordshire) British (General)

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however glorious and vast the unimaginable depths of the universe, we cannot remain lost in its glories forever. We must return to the small family of worlds within which we live. We must return to our son a single star among the hundreds of billions that make up our galaxy and to the world that circle it of which Earth is one. By the time of Newton, it had become possible to speculate intelligently about the creation of Earth and the solar system. As a separate problem from the creation ofthe the universe as a whole, the picture of the solar system showed it to be a structure with certain unifying characteristics. Number one, All the major planets circled the sun in approximately the plane off the sun's equator. In other words, if you were to prepare a three dimensional model of the sun and its planets, I would find it could be made to fit into a very shallow cake pan Number two All the major planets circled the sun in the same direction. The sun. The sun is clearly the source of light of heat and of life itself on Earth. Even prehistoric humanity must have defied it the pharaoh ignite on who came to the Egyptian thrown in 13 79 BC and was the first monotheists we know off considered the son to be the one God. In mediaeval times, the sun was a symbol of perfection and, though not considered itself to be a god, was certainly taken as representing the perfection off the Almighty.