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Essay Archive - Fusion
Fusion
For centuries, humankind has looked at the stars, and for just as many years
humankind has tried to explain the existence of those very same stars. Were
they holes in an enormous canvas that covered the earth? Were they fire-flies
that could only be seen when the Apollo had parked his chariot for the night?
There seemed to be as many explanations for the stars as there were stars
themselves. Then one day an individual named Galileo Galilei made an astounding
discovery: the stars were replicas of our own sun, only so far away that they
seemed as large as pin pricks to the naked eye. This in turn gave rise to ma....
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