“Once you’ve become aware and start to realize how insanely
conditioned a lot of people are, their opinions wouldn’t matter
anymore. But it doesn’t mean that you stop loving them. In fact
your love may now be coupled with deep compassion, for you’re
beginning to profoundly understand the true meaning of the words
“forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Thousands of
metres below the sea, trapped in the fossilized remains of
ancient bacteria, exists the iron remnants of a supernova
explosion that happened millions of years ago. An imprint, here
on Earth, of a dying star. Iron-60, an isotope of iron created
only in supernovae, has been found in fossilised seabed
bacteria. The preliminary findings, announced by Shawn Bishop of
the Technical University of Munich at a 14 April meeting of the
American Physical Society in Colorado, may be the first time
that a specific star’s debris has been found in our fossil
record. Iron-60’s half-life is relatively short when compared to
the age of our solar system, so tr