I just finished watching an astronomy video from one of my favorite science YouTubers, Anton Petrov.
Did you know we’re not just in the Milky Way, but part of of a galactic super cluster called Laniakea? Which is only one of many such super clusters?
Learning how small humans are in the scheme of things can be humbling or it can be humiliating.
I see it as humbling, and at the same time inspiring. How amazing that we’ve learned as much as we have. How far we’ve been able to see into time and space.
It’s as if the creatures I used to look at in the microscope had mapped the inside of my house. Could you imagine? If any extra-dimensional beings are studying us, I think they would have to be impressed.
On a slightly related note, I just thought of Blood Music, a wild science fiction novel by Greg Bear where single-celled life becomes as intelligent as us thanks to carelessness in a lab. It starts as a Horror Story as colonies of cells begin rearranging the earth.
Then it becomes a complete mind-fuck as the microsopic world discovers and learns to communicate with humanity. And the weight of their strange concept of physics begins to change the universe.
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