The Talmud describes the Sun as being surrounded by a נרתיק — a sheath, and modern astronomy has revealed the Sun’s vast outer atmosphere, the corona. We see yet another remarkable connection between the wisdom of Chazal and what science has recently uncovered.
Conservation of Mass and Energy
What if matter doesn’t truly disappear—it simply takes on a new form? Centuries before Lavoisier’s experiments established the conservation of mass, the Ramban described the physical world as existing matter being continually formed and reshaped.
Heavenly Hydration
Even before modern science revealed the true dynamics of the water cycle, Chazal understood that rainfall itself was sufficient to supply the waters of the rivers and the earth’s other water sources.