It's a beautiful thought. I did something in a book a while ago about stars being giant balls of burning gas and also holes in the sky -- reality being a flexible construct.
When I've been in places with an awful lot of sky (Mongolia at night, the Everglades, my backyard), I've always found knowledge of astronomy and astrophysics to be an aid to awe. Rudolph Otto says that overwhelming difference in scale ushers us into the experience of the holy, and nothing bears him out for me quite so much as seeing the dust of the Milky Way and thinking "These are all as big as the sun or larger, and some of them are millions of years dead now."
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Date: 2009-04-12 06:30 pm (UTC)When I've been in places with an awful lot of sky (Mongolia at night, the Everglades, my backyard), I've always found knowledge of astronomy and astrophysics to be an aid to awe. Rudolph Otto says that overwhelming difference in scale ushers us into the experience of the holy, and nothing bears him out for me quite so much as seeing the dust of the Milky Way and thinking "These are all as big as the sun or larger, and some of them are millions of years dead now."