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A 6-Minute Exploration Into the Vastness of the Universe
If a grain of sand looks exactly the same as the universe under a microscope — what else is there to discover?
The whole universe is built upon a set of building blocks that creates the foundations for life to grow on Earth. Some things appear unthinkably huge while others are impossibly small. However, whatever size they appear to be, the whole of existence exists within their framework.
The human body, for example, is made up of 70% water just the same way as the planet is made up of 70% water. A head of broccoli is the exact replica of a tree and a grain of sand under a microscope looks exactly the same as the universe.
Everything, it seems then, is simply a larger or smaller version of the same set of principles that bring it to life. We all might have different faces, different forms, and different shapes so everything might appear different on the surface, but all of it is built upon the same building blocks that make up everything else. It’s just that some things are unthinkably huge and others impossibly small.
If chickens, guinea fowl, geckos, or lizards were 20x bigger than they are today, they would resemble what a dinosaur looked like some 70 million years ago. Their size has changed but…
