Star Studded Facts

A friend told me tonight, that frogs don't go ''RIBBUT''. (I was totally devastated). Apparently they go ''EEEEEEEEEE''. How dull. That's a mouse, gerbil, rat and hamster noise. Its too common and not diverse enough to keep it interesting. The frogs in Hollywood make the ribbuting sound, and that's what we hear in films. So before we had frogs in England, we only heard them in movies and they said ribbut because they are local to that area! Then everyone in this country thought that it was the noise everyone's frogs make. I love qirky little facts like that!

I also learnt recently that the clouds are made of water, and space. And the electric bits of water called electrons rub together when they bump past the little pieces of space and that's why clouds make thunder sounds and can float (although water is heavier than air!) because they are full of lots of minute pieces of space. 

In the same conversation I learnt that wind makes noise by moving and bouncing off other particles and then when the air rushes through a thin gap, it makes a whistle sound like when we whistle. We make a tiny gap so the air rushes through and makes a noises. I'm certain it has to be related to vibration in some form but my friend said, ''No''.

Science is completely weird but amazing. Truly amazing. Who would ever have guessed that you can't touch clouds, until a scientist experimented with it? I know I wouldn't! How did we find out that stars, planets and moons exist? From Earth, they all look like dots or tiny circles and they could all be the same thing. I wish I was a scientist. A nature scientist. It would be so much fun learning amazing new things, and even more fun teaching other people. They wouldn't believe you at first. Like the man who found out about the world being round. Everyone thought he was nuts until someone (possibly him) sailed all the way around it.

The Earth and the space around it are like magic. Everything we see is like a clever spell. Appearing from nothing, transforming from one thing to another in front of our eyes, moving in cycles and rhythm and creating new life and substance. It really is fascinating!!! 

I can't help but imagine God as a magician now wearing all the get-up. He's still a man though (I wish I could imagine God being a woman) and he's still pretty old. He has a wand that's a bit like a sonic screwdriver and he does amazing things like smiting people and burning whole villages made from mud and straw. Oh, that can't be God.

But like the biggest disagreement ever still stands about whether God created the universe, or whether it was the Big Bang or Richard Branson, I would like to think someone made it all for us. Someone made us a pretty gift and gave it to our ancestors. Whether that person 'God' is still around somewhere keeping check and playing with how long people live for, is another matter. I don't give my Mother wash sets for Christmas and then stick around, peering through the steamy shower screen to check she's using them. I give my gift and leave. Maybe that's what this person did. 

I'd like to know. I don't think we ever will though. Whoever it was must be very shy and modest. They have made the most beautiful thing anyone has ever seen. It nurtures our children and provides us with life. They would need more than a delivery from Interflora and a box of belgian seashells.

I am going to make it my mission to learn things about science. And if and when I do, I'm going to tell you all about it.