Just thinking

/ J. F. Riordan

One of the things I love about sunrise is the giddy sense it gives me to contemplate that while it seems the sun is racing into the sky, it is we who are spinning through space at 67,000 mph (or so) while the sun stands still. At the same time, the earth is spinning on its axis, its mass creating the force of gravity to keep everything firmly grounded.

Meanwhile, tiny particles are spinning in their own miniature cosmos forming everything around us, even ourselves.

This morning the heavy fog was frozen on the branches of the trees, and an icy mist still hung in the air. The sun rose neon pink, turning the mists purple. All the invisible forces, large and small, at every moment, come together to make it possible for a human being—and her dogs— to sit here and think.

You don’t believe in miracles?

15 thoughts on “Just thinking”

  3. Absolutely stunning!!  I so enjoy your daily thoughts, they make me happy!  From you making your mom’s dinner, to the dogs you love so much!!

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    div>And, I love Charlie too.  Glad he will still be

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  7. I love how you explain a complex topic as quantum mechanics for us common folk. Its really a micracle how all that works and we don’t float off into the cosmos as quantum particles.

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  8. I love how you explain a complex topic such as quantum mechanics to us common folk. Its an absolute micracle we don’t float off into the cosmos as star dust.

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  9. One minor correction – it is not the Earth’s rotation that causes gravity but its mass. That is not to say the rotation doesn’t have an effect – an object does weigh less at the equator than at one of the Poles, and also less at a higher altitude at the same latitude, because of the centrifugal force induced by the Earth’s rotation very partially countering the gravitational force.

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