Why Music? pt1

In my life, I have found three things that completely fascinate me: Astronomy, Theology/Mythology, and Music.

Astronomy-
When I was a young pup, I had a big National Geographic book called, "The Universe." Each chapter was about something in our solar system, starting with the Sun, than to Mercury, Venus, and even Pluto had its own chapter (You see, Pluto was still a planet back then). The last chapter was about what was past the solar system, what other life might live out there, and how long it would even take to get from our planet to the nearest star (about 4.5 years if traveling at the speed of light). There was a page that had all the planets next to the sun to show just how big everything was. That page started me down the path to learn more. Even with how big the Earth was, we were so tiny compared to Jupiter, not to mention our Sun itself. And the idea that our Sun is just one of hundreds of billions of other stars in our galaxy, not to mention the Milky Way is one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe, made me feel so incredibly small, so insignificant, and so humble. I wanted to learn as much as I could, but at the time when I was a child, math was not one of my strong cards and the equations I saw the astronomers work with seemed laughably impossible for me to try and conceive. But since then I have read my share of Hawking, Einstein, and Sagan to learn about how super-masive stars have the ability to make smaller stars that can support life. I read news articles about the latest breakthroughs and currant missions that are being planed by NASA. And even now, some 30 years later, I can look up at the stars (of the ones I can see in the Vegas night sky) and still feel so incredibly small, so insignificant, and so humble.