Friday, June 17, 2016




   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.

Steven Hawking's Genius
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hawking_genius_ep02_galaxy/counting-the-stars-in-the-milky-way/

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