When you look out the window at the world around you, pause, and contemplate what you see. The world may be just the same as it was a few hundred years ago, trees, soil and sky. Aside from modern structures mostly things haven't changed.. You could go back 200 years or more and see something similar. The most amazing and earth shattering comprehension is how much we now know and understand about our world.

 

We understand how plants grow, how substances are made up of basic atoms and even how atoms are made up of sub-atomic particles. We can look at the faintest objects in the sky and see the earliest light. We now know that there are billions of stars in our galaxy but within the universe there are billions of galaxies just like our own each with billions of stars..

 

When I was a boy transistors, the basic build block of electronics today, were something large enough to hold in your hand. Today our knowledge and and ability allows us to put 100 million transistors onto a tiny chip - the basis of mobile phones.

We now know and understand so much more than ever before. What we see out through the window is a world that science has opened to our eyes. The beauty and wonder is poignant with the understanding of the fragility of it all.

 

This is not the time to be killing and fighting but a time to realise our place in time and space as a special thing for all of us to live in.

Stop Putin's war