Steven
Hawking has created a six part series that he calls "Genius." He
believes that regular people can answer really BIG questions using their
brains. In Episode two three non-genius people learn that a tablespoon
of sand represents a model for 50,000 stars. Dr. Hawking sets up
numerous small experiments that allow for the discovery of the Big
Questions: like how big is our Galaxy?
Dr. Hawking intertwines the
discoveries of great scientists with his creative experiments to assist
the non-geniuses into a questioning journey into "Infinity and Beyond,"
to quote Buzz Lighyear. We learn that there are 300,000,000,000 stars
in our Galaxy, and there are 100-200 Billion Galaxies!
Does
anything in Tony's work resemble small universes? Perhaps getting lost
inside of one of these photographic creations will ease you mind and
allow some of the trauma that we hear and see step aside so that we
might rest in that peacefulness.
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hawking_genius_ep02_galaxy/counting-the-stars-in-the-milky-way/
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