Forty Thousand Feet Skyward

7月 22, 2010 · Posted in 未分類 

If we are to perish eventually by atom blast, we should realize that we also live by it. Nothing in our ordinary lives is commoner than atomic fission. Only a person congenitally and totally blind can honestly say that he has never seen an atomic explosion. For this is what happens on the sun, on a scale so vast that it eludes our ability to visualize, much less comprehend. Were you impressed by the world-shaking column of heat and light that reared itself forty thousand feet skyward over Hiroshima and Bikini? Consider, then, that solar “prominences,” flaring half a million miles into space, are commonplace on the mother-star.

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