Welcome to Wonder Cabinet.

I'm Anne Strangeamps.

And I'm Steve Paulson.

How often do we, any of us, take the time to stop and look up at the cosmos,

to just stand and stare at the moon or another planet or even our own star

and think how lucky we are to exist on this tiny blue planet, floating in a sea of

darkness. So here we are. And so the first thing we can do is we can close our eyes for a little bit.

The air is phenomenal right now. So just bring it in. It's an early spring morning, and physicist Marcelo Gleiser has assembled a group of friends for a bit of sun worship.

And we're going to all turn towards the sun.

We're at the island of knowledge in Tuscany, a think tank where the purpose is to bring science and the sacred together like this.

Now, you know what's going on in the sun, right?

The sun for four and a half billion years has been transforming the simplest chemical that exists,

which is hydrogen, into the next simple one, which is helium,

in this process called nuclear fusion.

And as it does that, it releases all the energy

that this planet uses in incredible ways

to sustain all kinds of life here.

And we don't thank the sun enough.

So now what we're going to do is

point our hands towards the sun

and feel the energy of the sun

going down your arms

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