1 00:00:12,350 --> 00:00:09,430 I'm going to tell you a story you'd say 2 00:00:13,490 --> 00:00:12,360 you had one for everything inventing 3 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:13,500 them on the spot if you thought they'd 4 00:00:18,529 --> 00:00:16,290 help once when I was a child upset about 5 00:00:19,910 --> 00:00:18,539 something you told me it was important 6 00:00:23,750 --> 00:00:19,920 for difficult things to happen in my 7 00:00:27,589 --> 00:00:23,760 life you said it was beautiful in a way 8 00:00:29,660 --> 00:00:27,599 every challenge we face is beautiful you 9 00:00:32,870 --> 00:00:29,670 said each star in the sky was born from 10 00:00:37,610 --> 00:00:32,880 that view and later we used those stars 11 00:00:40,910 --> 00:00:37,620 to navigate we steer our ships Bible who 12 00:00:45,260 --> 00:00:40,920 discover new ground return to harbor by 13 00:00:48,540 --> 00:00:45,270 their life so the challenges we overcome 14 00:01:01,189 --> 00:00:50,820 when I was a kid he showed me pictures 15 00:01:05,810 --> 00:01:03,290 we turn lessons into bedtime stories 16 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:05,820 what this introduced to me was a 17 00:01:17,219 --> 00:01:08,490 universe inconceivable magnitude in 18 00:01:22,719 --> 00:01:21,070 I remember sitting in my classroom 19 00:01:26,230 --> 00:01:22,729 watching the launch of the space shuttle 20 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:26,240 Challenger lost with the same explosive 21 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:30,530 energy as the birth of star the birth of 22 00:01:47,530 --> 00:01:43,060 and it fell the same way 23 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:47,540 suddenly I felt aware violence the life 24 00:01:58,780 --> 00:01:49,370 and death of the universe's elements are 25 00:02:06,070 --> 00:02:03,100 on August 6 1944 number one songs when I 26 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:06,080 stopped at Bing Crosby the Detroit 27 00:02:13,690 --> 00:02:09,530 Tigers beat the white sides 3 2 1 28 00:02:16,870 --> 00:02:13,700 and you were born some 18 billion years 29 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:16,880 earlier time was born and with it our 30 00:02:21,820 --> 00:02:19,730 history they say it started from a 31 00:02:24,670 --> 00:02:21,830 single point of unfathomable density 32 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:24,680 outside of which nothing existed not 33 00:02:29,380 --> 00:02:27,410 space not time because it posed not even 34 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:29,390 nothing there was only a single point of 35 00:02:37,660 --> 00:02:33,770 pressure and from it came the greatest 36 00:02:40,630 --> 00:02:37,670 event of all time Big Bang and time came 37 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:40,640 into being along with matter 38 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:43,730 you said our greatest ancestor was that 39 00:02:49,930 --> 00:02:46,730 moment every element every particle had 40 00:02:51,730 --> 00:02:49,940 ever existed from our home to the 41 00:02:56,530 --> 00:02:51,740 furthest reaches the cosmos is shared 42 00:03:00,420 --> 00:02:56,540 with us we are of the stars and we among 43 00:03:02,990 --> 00:03:00,430 the stars we're not born into this world 44 00:03:05,780 --> 00:03:03,000 we were born out of it 45 00:03:09,410 --> 00:03:05,790 the event that started at all near in 46 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:09,420 each of us the universe creates us while 47 00:03:22,010 --> 00:03:14,130 we in turn of create the universe and 48 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:22,020 you move in infinite directions through 49 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:28,810 where I sit right now there are cinder 50 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:31,010 blocks covered with layers of paint old 51 00:03:35,140 --> 00:03:33,530 wood floors and the sound of tires and a 52 00:03:38,290 --> 00:03:35,150 wet road coming through the window 53 00:03:42,430 --> 00:03:38,300 I imagine where you are there are no 54 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:42,440 edges corners only curves an endless 55 00:03:49,290 --> 00:03:45,770 expansion atoms like dust blowing about 56 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:49,300 I believe that out there where you are 57 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:53,210 time exists all at once moments of our 58 00:04:00,490 --> 00:03:55,490 lives dog yard like the pages of a good 59 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:00,500 book waiting to be read again I believe 60 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:03,710 somewhere right now you're telling me 61 00:04:10,490 --> 00:04:06,090 about the Stars 62 00:04:14,470 --> 00:04:10,500 the Challenger is launching again right 63 00:04:19,460 --> 00:04:17,150 you're seeing your wife for the first 64 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:19,470 time and you just met your baby brother 65 00:04:24,170 --> 00:04:21,510 you thanking me in the kitchen for 66 00:04:25,070 --> 00:04:24,180 helping with the medicine and then you 67 00:04:28,220 --> 00:04:25,080 give me a hug 68 00:04:30,590 --> 00:04:28,230 and because all time exists at once I 69 00:04:33,980 --> 00:04:30,600 know that somewhere you're still there 70 00:04:38,930 --> 00:04:33,990 in that kitchen hugging me in that way 71 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:41,540 now when I look up at the stars I think 72 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:50,710 each star symbol buck in the curiosity 73 00:04:57,390 --> 00:04:53,090 and the effort of each of us that walked 74 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:00,090 the Stars every one of them in afterlife 75 00:05:04,929 --> 00:05:03,310 a reflection of all time at going on and 76 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:04,939 on 77 00:05:23,540 --> 00:05:18,890 I saw you looking through my sister's