More Than Meets the Eye

from More Than Meets the Eye by Sandy Cash

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"More Than Meets the Eye" tells the story of astronomer Vera Rubin. Vera grew up in a time where women weren’t allowed into advanced degree programs in physics, but she persevered. She was the first to discover the concept of “dark matter” - the still mysterious form of matter that is calculated to make up over 80% of the known universe. Although she worked in relative obscurity during her lifetime, the world’s most advanced telescopic observatory (still under construction) was recently re-named in her honor.

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A ten year old astronomer threw off her nighttime covers
Tip-toed to her window so she could see the sky
And as winter turned to summer, she watched the constellations
Spin in orderly procession round the northern star so high
She built a homemade telescope together with her dad
Took astronomy in college and she was far from done
Left waiting by the mailbox for that catalog from Princeton
The program would not let a woman in 'til 1971

Looking at the stars we are looking back in time
A picture of a billion years gone by
Vera Rubin did much more than hold up half the sky
Showed us there is so much more out there than meets the eye

She found another program where she gazed up at the galaxies
Looking for the secret of the stable life they led
Remembering the counselor who told her back in high school
To be ladylike she might consider painting stars instead
Just weeks after her son was born an academic conference
Cradling her data, her professional debut
She shared her observations and the scorn was universal
The evidence was clear: she was a girl, and only 22

It takes a calculating mind to take the measure of the cosmos
A steady sense of self to hunt for what you just suspect
Something out there holding every galaxy together
Something out there in the dark that no one could detect

With her dark matter discovery she made her mark on science
Painted a new picture of when the world was new
Vera wrote a book called "My Grandmother's an Astronomer"
To tell the next child looking at the stars that she could do it too

Looking at the stars we are looking back in time
A picture of a billion years gone by
Vera Rubin did much more than hold up half the sky
Worked the numbers hard enough called the universe's bluff
She showed us there is so much more out there than meets the eye.

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from More Than Meets the Eye, released March 1, 2020
Music and lyrics by Sandy Cash
Recorded by Elana Snitman
Arranged and produced by David Epstein

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From the Midwest to the Middle East, American-born singer-songwriter Sandy Cash is a musical storyteller whose thoughtful – and theatrical – performance style is rooted in the songs on which she grew up back in her native Detroit.

Sandy draws on history and present-day politics, while exploring themes such as the sustaining love of family, a commitment to community, and a healthy sense of humor. ... more

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