A Glorious Dawn

[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has it’s own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

[Sagan]
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we’ve waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting

칼세이건과 스티븐 호킹의 “A Glorious Dawn”

"하늘이 우리를 부릅니다. 우리가 스스로를 파괴하지않는다면
 우리는 언젠가는 별들에게로 모험을 떠날 수 있겠지요"

"훨씬 더 많은 영광스러운 새벽들이 당신을 기다립니다.
 해가 아닌 은하가 떠오르는 400억 개의 태양으로 채워지는 아침
 은하수의 일출"

"우리가 이 시대에 살 수 있는 것은 행운입니다.
 이 시대는 우리가 또다른 세계를 방문하는 인간 역사상 첫번째 장이죠.
 
 지구는 대우주의 해변이에요. 최근에야 우리는 밖으로 조금 항해할 수 있게되었지만
 대양은 오라며 초대하는듯 합니다."