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Dan Levitt: You Are Stardust. Really

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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How to Stop a Compulsive Talker

When I was writing this book, one of the questions that drew me up short was when a friend of mine and she said, well, what happens to our atoms when we die? Do our atoms live for it? Exist forever? And I just love that question because it was something that I had never really considered. One of them is apparently the protons in the nuclei, there's a suggestion that after umpting billions of billions of billion of billions of years, they might actually decay and split up into smaller particles. So unless the universe expands forever, eventually, even the smallest bits of atoms may turn into essentially electromagnetic waves or waves of energy. But for our practical purposes

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