What does the transforming is knowledge?

We can take some raw material that had no particular use

and within that raw material we might find uranium nuclei,

which then can be used in a nuclear reactor to create energy

or bombs.

We can find within something that for almost the entire

geological existence of the earth,

sat there in it and would have done nothing absent people.

People are the entities within the universe

that create explanations.

They're able to explain what raw materials might be transformed into.

Now, what are they transforming these raw materials into?

Civilization.

People creating knowledge end up becoming literally a force of nature.

If we seek to explain something like the shape of a galaxy

or the shape of the star, any astrophysic will give you a story

based upon the known laws of physics

about how gravity will pull things into spheres,

how the laws of thermodynamics will cause certain kinds

of gas to heat up and expand.

All of the known laws of physics are sufficient to explain

what we see out there in the cosmos.

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