QCCQ Welcome to the Solar System

Quote " Now the first thing you are likely to realize is that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful. Our solar system may be the liveliest thing for trillions of miles, but all the visible stuff in it, the sun, the planets and their moons, the billion or so tumbling rocks of the asteroid belt, comets, and other miscellaneous drifting detritus fills less than a trillionth of the available space." Comment: This quote gave a lot of information stating opinions and facts that were unbelievably real but hard to comprehend when it is taken in just one moment. Reading this was very interesting and particularly informative to the point that I wanted to learn more about what Astronomers have discovered in the past years and how it affects what we think regarding our solar system and the amount of space that we have. It's definitely amazing how much space we have to explore in order to say that we "know" what is out there in space, but for now we may have to settle with only knowing that are 8 planets in our solar system, and who knows maybe there are more to come just like Pluto, which had been discovered just recently. Connection: I have always wondered about space and time, why there is such a mystery to it and why we always think we have it figured out but rather we just find little pieces to the bigger puzzle that keeps getting bigger and bigger. Questions: Hasn't Pluto been said to not be considered a Planet anymore? Will we ever know the accuracy of the space there is in space? Are there really other living things in other planets other than Earth? Why did Lowell get all the credit for the finding of Pluto, if Tombaugh finished his research when Lowell had died, he should have taken some credit right?

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Quote: "We have a universe. It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the same time it takes to make a sandwich." Comment: This quote really stood out to me because of the way it explains how everything literally happened without giving to much or too little. The information that was inferred in this quote was made to be very well understood by everyone, giving that it intended a simple message. In my understanding it was clear to me that there are various things that make up the world today, and without any of them nothing would have existed. One thing leads to another and once we realize it, there we have the world that we see everyday, growing and growing. And it really amazes me that it all happened very fast to a point where nobody can define the accuracy of the time period in which the Universe had started in. Connection: My connection to this is personal. Reading this has made me open my mind to many curiosities in life that I would like to know more about. As I was growing up I always wandered where everything came from and how everything was made, but I guess that's everyone. But as time went by I started noticing that there were certain beliefs and facts that people had of the universe. And at the time, I only believed in one certain person that could possibly ever create such a world, and that was God. And as of now I'm almost in between my beliefs and the facts researchers have came across. Question: How do the small atoms know what to form? What guides them? Do people really now why the ocean is salty? Whats the key of the start of the universe?