11-01-2024, 09:13 PM
Every breath you take you are breathing history. On average, each breath is likely to have at least one molecule from any given litre of air from the past.
It is all very well and good and inspiring until you realize you are also probably breathing Hitler's farts.
Quote:It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.
In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it. With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world.
On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds on the Senate floor, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding; in fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might well bear traces of Cleopatra's perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe's creation.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3294...ast-breath
It is all very well and good and inspiring until you realize you are also probably breathing Hitler's farts.
