We are all made of the same stuff. Atoms.
The human body, every single one, is mostly made up of oxygen (65%), carbon (18%), hydrogen (11%), nitrogen (3%), calcium (2%), and the rest under 1%, including phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, and chlorine.
And with that, we are always changing. We are always in motion. That is because all atoms do have measurable vibrations.
Atoms are constantly in motion due to their thermal energy. And this causes them to vibrate. This movement not only goes for our atoms but also all the atoms everywhere. In your bowl of oatmeal. Your doormat. Your car tire. The Empire State Building. And more.
And this is regardless of whether the object is solid, liquid, or gas. This vibration happens on a microscopic level, but it’s present in everything.
This movement is part of what we perceive as temperature. Even at absolute zero (-273.15°C or 0 Kelvin), atoms would still have some residual vibrational motion. For the record, this is known as zero-point energy.
Scientists study these vibrations to understand the properties of materials and molecules, like their stability and behavior.
This amazes me on so many levels. The first thing, that we ALL are made up of the exact same things. And yet, each one of us is unique. Originals, we are. But. The combination of our makeup tells us how we’ll be. And here we are.
The other amazing and wonderful thing is the movement. The change. The constant coming and goings of our atoms. The constant vibrations and motion, synching, or not synching, with the world around us. We have no idea this is happening within us, in every single second, so miraculously. And here we are.
And here we are.
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“The more I learn about the universe, the more I realize how much is yet to be discovered, and how much of life is beyond our grasp, in the infinitesimally small and the vastness of space.” — Stephen Hawking
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“At the heart of matter, we find a paradox, an eternal dance of particles and forces, as tiny as a whisper but as grand as the universe itself.” — Brian Greene
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“In the microscopic world of molecules, it is the tiny, delicate dance of atoms that makes life possible.” — Albert Szent-Györgyi
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“Life as we know it is built on the interactions of molecules too small to see, yet capable of creating the unimaginable.” — Carl Sagan
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