COSMOS

*** THE SHORES OF THE COSMIC OCEAN ***

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us.
There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory of falling from a great height.

We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries.

The size and age of the cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding.
Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home, the Earth.

For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves.
This is a time of great danger, but our species is young and curious and brave, it shows much promise.

In the last few millennia, we've made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the cosmos and our place within it.
I belive our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

We're about to begin a journey through the cosmos.
We'll encounter galaxies and suns and planets, life and consciousness comming into being, envolving and perishing.
Worlds of ice and stars of diamond.
Atoms as massive as suns and universes smallers than atoms.