Stephan Martin: Cataclysm – When Things Fall Apart

Fig. 6: A cataclysm is a cosmic process that breaks down structures over time (source: NASA)

We bring you an excerpt from the book Living the Cosmic Life / Reflections on the Cosmos, Everyday Life, and Personal Experience by American astronomer Stephen Martin, published by the PILGRIM – Wandering University of Nature association in 2019 as its first publication in the On the Road series (translated by Jiří Zemánek). These are the chapters “Cataclysm: When Things Fall Apart” (pp. 40-45) and “Awakening to an Evolving Universe”…

Stephan Martin: The Universe is Change

Stephan Martin at the seminar Living a Comical Life on August 1, 2019 at the Švarná Hanka chalet in the Beskydy Mountains (on the left is Hanka Bernardová)

We bring you an excerpt from the book Living the Cosmic Life / Reflections on the Cosmos, Everyday Life, and Personal Experience by American astronomer Stephan Martin, published by the PILGRIM – Wandering University of Nature association in 2019 as its first publication in the On the Road series (translated by Jiří Zemánek). These are the chapters “The Universe is Changing” and “We Are Cosmic Beings” (pp. 15-29). Stephan Martin is an astronomer, lecturer,…