/sci/ - Science & Math

sorry for positioning, but after studying so much, I no longer feel as amazed or impressed by the cosmos, like I remember getting goosebumps thinking about the size of the very large and the very small, but that feeling is kind of gone, is this temporary, anyone else with experience on this?

I'm dreary you weren't here to see the wonders of our time, but I find it reassuring, that you visualize a better and brighter future for us, I will pursue, adopt and abide by your ways, I will recall you and honour you every time, mankind takes another step forward.

I'm starting Astrophysics in Autumn 2012 :3

In Sweden, Lund's University

It's quite scary the choice of studying astrophysics/Cosmology, I will devote my life to it, and you either succeed or fail terribly, there is no middle ground, and if you succeed, you don't get paid as much as engineers, which is reasonable, but there is no other science that stirs within me stronger than astrophysics/Cosmology, I will also have to move to where there is work, like USA or south America.
There is not a single thing in the world, that I find more interesting, than the cosmos. But I'm a bit scared about this giant leap I'm about to take. . .

It's the remnants of a very big star, that when It cold not fuse heavier elements, collapse on it's own mass, crating a single point, of no known size and infinitely dense, this creates such tidal forces, than not even light can escape.
A good place to start learning about this, without having to be scientific literate, are documentary such as Cosmos by Carl Saga, they're a bit old, so it's not going to be 100% accurate with what we know today, but a good documentary that uses layman's terms, and has a very good narrator, is the Trough the wormhole, with Morgan Freeman, another good one , is the short series Stephen Hawking made, about time and space, Stephen Hawking's Universe.