Small & Puny; Big & Clumsy

Reason # 47,042 why I love teaching physics:

Where else do you get to say the same thing makes us seem"small and puny" and, later in the same lecture, it makes us feel "big and clumsy"?  The topic is mass and when looking at the primary role of gravity in a cosmic sense we little tiny, short-lived humans seem inconsequential (as we are!) but when we look at where mass comes from and search ever-smaller until we find fundamental particles, we realize we are just too big to able to appreciate how things are stitched together.