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Did you enjoy the auto-tuned “Cosmos” song featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking? If so, get ready for more science/music awesomeness. Here’s another song and video by the same artist (Colorpulse) featuring: Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye.
You can download MP3s and learn more from SymphonyOfScience.com.
Complete lyrics are after the jump.
Lyrics:
[deGrasse Tyson]
We are all connected;
To each other, biologically
To the earth, chemically
To the rest of the universe atomically[Feynman]
I think nature’s imagination
Is so much greater than man’s
She’s never going to let us relax[Sagan]
We live in an in-between universe
Where things change all right
But according to patterns, rules,
Or as we call them, laws of nature[Nye]
I’m this guy standing on a planet
Really I’m just a speck
Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck
To think about all of this
To think about the vast emptiness of space
There’s billions and billions of stars
Billions and billions of specks[Sagan]
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We’re made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itselfAcross the sea of space
The stars are other suns
We have traveled this way before
And there is much to be learnedI find it elevating and exhilarating
To discover that we live in a universe
Which permits the evolution of molecular machines
As intricate and subtle as we[deGrasse Tyson]
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable
To phenomena in the cosmos
That makes me want to grab people in the street
And say, have you heard this??(Richard Feynman on hand drums and chanting)
[Feynman]
There’s this tremendous mess
Of waves all over in space
Which is the light bouncing around the room
And going from one thing to the otherAnd it’s all really there
But you gotta stop and think about it
About the complexity to really get the pleasure
And it’s all really there
The inconceivable nature of nature
That’s awesome.
posted by Kat on 10-19-2009 at 6:22 pm
My wife, Connie Barlow, a noted science writer, is on a crusade to get this story (and John Boswell’s new music genre) reported in the national media. See here: http://thankgodforevolution.com/node/1947
posted by Michael on 10-20-2009 at 8:17 am
To Michael and Connie Barlow: Major Kudos to you for helping promote these videos! John Boswell has entered A Glorious Dawn into the Webby Awards. If it gets nominated, let’s spread the word! As soon as the nominations are listed at the WebbyAward site, we can all vote for it under the People’s Voice Award –
Thanks!
posted by Sharon on 10-20-2009 at 1:07 pm
Michael,
Does this count?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113284034
It is on NPR; “National” is part of the name.
posted by n2y2 on 10-20-2009 at 4:21 pm
this has been stuck in my head all day
posted by Davis on 10-22-2009 at 12:25 am
Wow…. I’m so glad to hear people are trying to get this out far across the public. John definitely has done something miraculous.
posted by Nova on 10-30-2009 at 8:39 am