I’m taking a little break from writing for a couple of weeks, but I didn’t want to leave you with nothing to read, so for ten posts, I’ll share with you my Top 10 Ponderings of the Universe. Is the order meaningful?
Your guess is as good as mine. Today: The rhythm of the universe.
You probably have heard by now that Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has, what I’ll call for ease, a “water” cycle. We all learned it in grade school, how liquid water evaporates, and that comes down as rain, and the whole system feeds oceans and lakes and rivers. I mean that may not be entirely scientifically accurate, but you get the gist.
And that all happens on Titan.
But.
On Titan, it’s not water. It’s so cold, water is as hard as rock, and the liquid is methane, which is a gas here on earth.
Think about that for a moment. Imagine if there were life on Titan–we don’t know, maybe it could be, just calibrated a little differently–and how odd our own world would seem.
Liquid water? Methane as a gas?
But we only have to look a little further out into the universe to get the idea, because out there, they’ve found planets they suspect sustain temperatures high enough to have their own weather cycle…made of rock.
Vast oceans of lava, silicate rain.
Imagine how frigid our own world would seem to a being built for that heat.
It’s all a rolling perspective, isn’t it, what is normal based on what you know. Our rock is not always rock, what is solid here may not be elsewhere. And on perhaps it goes, there’s no way to know for sure.
And with that I wish you a wonderful Tuesday.
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