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I came across any interesting thought in Geology class on thursday. Nothing in the world goes anywhere. I knew this already, I'd just never thought about it. Let me explain. On an atomic level everything thats on this planet has always been here. Every two hydrogen atoms that ever joined with an oxygen atom to make water was part of the original dust cloud that spun this planet into exsistence. Of course those atoms have changed a billion times. They joined with other atoms, been broken apart, been melted in the core of the earth, blasted through a volcano and started the cycle over again. There is little on this earth at a molecular level that hasn't always been here and won't always be here. So I got to thinking about what this could mean for us, for people. I mean the Law of Uniformitarianism is that the way things work now is how they've always worked. And human bodies are after all nothing other than atoms in specific order. We begin as atoms borrowed from our parents genetic material, just as they began. And if you follow it all back and back, past evolution back to the one-celled organisms that began life on our planet and before that it was all the dust cloud spinning in space. Are we recycled material, like everything else on earth? Are we all more directly connected to those ancient creatures than we thought? More importantly what about the earth? Or each other? This would mean that we are alot more connected to each other than I thought. Not just sharing a common experience here on earth but literally made of the same stuff over and over again. Hmm, maybe I need to shut up.
Whatever,
Kathryn
Whatever,
Kathryn