The Scientific Basis for the Man-Nature Partnership

The Connected Pathway:

• Formation of the Elements

• Thermonuclear Fusion in low mass stars --> Carbon, Oxygen

• Thermonuclear Fusion in high mass stars --> Iron

• Beyond Iron

Supernova represent the ultimate in CONNECTIVITY

The Cosmic Abudance of Iron will play a great role in the development of the properties of the Earth, including life

Moving Towards Uranium and a Hot Core for later development of Plate Tectonics

Making The Solar System

Delivering Water to the Rocky Earth

Evolving Models of the Solar System and The Scientific Method:

• Death of Imagination --> Two Sphere Universe

• EgoCentric Ptolemaic Model

• Copernicus Asks Why Mercury is Never seen at Midnight

• Galileo sees a mini solar system around Jupiter

• Tycho searches for stellar parallax --> sees none --> Aarogant rejection of Copernicun Model

• Tycho publishes data --> Kepler makes Geometrical Model

• Newton invents gravity, calculus but forgets about the speed of light

• Einstein invents causality and gravity as curved spacetime

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