The Most Astounding Fact
VIDEO: The Most Astounding Fact About the Universe
If there is one thing we all want in life, it is to feel connected. We want to feel relevant. We want to feel like participants in the goings on of activities and events around us. That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist and science communicator who is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Neil deGrasse is also a research associate in the department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.
Neil deGrasse Tyson has hosted the educational science television show called NOVA scienceNOW and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jeopardy!. In 2011 it was announced that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.
During an interview with a TIME magazine journalist, Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked what the most astounding fact about the universe was. His response was so well put that a freelance videographer (MaxSchlick) has created a video using spectacular footage from NASA and various other sources.
The video clip “The Most Astounding Fact” is both emotionally moving and hugely insightful. Neil deGrasse Tyson has a knack for explaining cosmological events with such passion and simplicity.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Most Astounding Fact
As quoted from the video link, Neil goes on to say: “For me, that is the most profound revelation of 20th century astrophysics and I look forward to what the 21st century will bring us, given the frontiers that are now unfolding.” One of my favourite quotations is from Neil deGrasse Tyson, which goes as follows:
“We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically” ~ Neil Degrasse Tyson
If you are interested in cosmology, quantum physics and more about how our Universe works, here is some interesting reading:
