nA poetoncesaid, ``Thewholeuniverse is in a glass of wine.'' Wewillprobablyneverknow in what sense he meantthat, forpoets do not writeto be understood. But it is truethatifwelook at a glass of winecloselyenoughweseetheentireuniverse. Therearethethings of physics: thetwistingliquidwhichevaporatesdepending on thewindandweather, thereflections in theglass, andourimaginationaddstheatoms. Theglass is a distillation of theEarth'srocks, and in itscompositonweseethesecrets of theuniverse'sage, andtheevolution of thestars.