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Disorientation: A Science Poem by Katie Mack

Astrophysicist Katie Mack encourages us to "see [our] world from four billion miles away" in this poem, presented in text and video formats.

I read this at my father's funeral. It was perfect.

Gosh

Love it!

Absolutely perfect.

"send a single photon into your eye" Wow. That one made me feel something. Billions of years of travelling through space, only to be absorbed by my retina without me usually giving it a second though. Wow.