Ode to Henrietta Leviatt - A tapestry of light

The 
Discovery of the earth 
With its perfection 

And imperfections, 
Small and beautiful 

Yet large and ancient 
How is it so that 
Our place in the universe 
Is so simple yet complex- 

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Using  
Parallex, when looking at the stars 
We can see how far the stars are - 
Measure the brightness of the stars 

As did the astronomer 
Henrietta Leviatt (1912) who examined 
The relationship between stars by 
Measuring the rate of change of star brightness in the sky and 
The distance between 

Stars and faraway galaxies ....

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So where do all the stars come from 
Where does it lead to...
Head to a 
NASA vacuum chamber - an 
Airless chamber 
Built of aluminum 

To perform a 
Galileo experiment ~ 
Feathers drop slower than a ball due to 
Air resistance 
Remove the air 
Drop the ball and the feather simultaneously and 
Without air resistance this time 

They come down together at the same time 

WOW! 
Newton said it was gravity but 
Einstein said they are not falling 
They stand still instead 
The force of gravity is an illusion 

WHAT! 

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General relativity - a theory 
The death of giant stars
Suns eaten by black holes in a 
......beautiful universe
With a  perfect moon 
And God said let there be light
In our constantly changing universe
Babies growing up
Adolescents shooting up
Adults growing old 
Into the birth of the cosmos

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Discovering the lights of the ancients
The afterglow of the Big Bang is 
The birth of the first atoms and light 
This is the story of our earliest origins
A tapestry of light and our ultimate destruction