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Neil dons a Cloak of Visibility and we see him purely synapses, from a molecule, to our memories of home.
as a being composed of atoms. The Ship of the The ultimate scientific truth is that we never truly
Imagination journeys to micro space – to the bottom touch each other and this is shown in a tender love
of a dewdrop – as we view the strange life there, and story between a young boy and girl. We look around
the struggle for life they are embroiled in. and view the world differently as we’ve never seen it
Further still, Neil takes us on a journey traversing before. The plants and trees breathe around us.
the complex neural networks in our brains, jumping In an ancient Grecian evening, Democritus tells a
magnificent tale of reality’s true nature that has been
long since proven. Looking deep into his wine glass we
see the intoxicating effects of the carbon atoms in his
wine – and why carbon is essential to life on Earth. Neil
drives us deeper to the inner chambers of atoms, to
the cathedral of the nucleus and onward to the very
heart of our Sun itself as we understand fusion.
Voyaging deep into the Earth, to a place unseen by
human eyes, we discover the mystery of the neutrino.
Our onward path leads us back in time to the Egyptian
Temple of Ramses, where the nourishing rays from our
star always halt before the Lord of Creation named
Ptah. Deeper, deeper and deeper still into the mists of
time, we come to that place on the Cosmic Calendar
beyond which the unknown beckons – but a great
barrier lies between us and the beginning of time itself.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood,
the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing
stars. We are made of starstuff.” – Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”
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