The "Stuff" That We Are Made Of

Barbara: One of the ideas that has been exciting me lately is my newfound awareness that this connection we all feel for one another—even when we hate or disagree with each other!—comes from a very simple source: the stuff from which we are made.

We’re talking about it in my Quantum Physics class and we’re talking about it my writer’s circles. We’re talking about it scientifically and we’re talking about it creatively and spiritually. Because, whether it resonates with you or not, at our very most atomic level, we are exactly the same as everything else. Everything else in the UNIVERSE. It brings that “we are one” mantra to a kind of whole other level, doesn’t it?

Here is a beautiful video by Max Schlickenmeyer that illustrates one such answer from astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson in a Time Magazine interview.