We are so tiny, and we are so big....

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We are all connected, we are all made from stardust, we are all one with the universe....

 

I don't think it's even possible to fathom how big this place is. I don't think anybody has or ever will, really. I don't think you can know how big it is and still live your day-to-day, ordinary life.

 

and that's what's so beautiful and wonderful about the world! there's still so much we don't know!

 

Think about the hubble volume, the universe expanding away from us at the speed of light. We're so tiny it kind of raises the question of what it even means to exist, I think. Is this all real or is this all just real weird?

 

I think it raises the idea that there are things we still don't know, things that have yet to be discovered. Like maybe our planet is some giant's cell.

 

we're just an electron and an even bigger universe.

 

Think about it the other way - how big we are. Every atom in our bodies is like a tiny solar system - with the nucleus like the sun and the electrons revolving around it. And in between the nucleus and electrons is vast empty space, just like all the empty space in the universe at large. Your body is like a universe unto itself. And most of it is empty space. Almost everything is nothing.

 

We are stardust. We are cosmos. Atman=brahman.

 

We are the fungus between the toes of a giant.

 

impossible to comprehend how incredibly small we are

 

I've thought about this as well. imagine a tiny droplet of water, and how much microscopic life that could support and contain in such a small area in comparison to ourselves. Who's to say our universe isn't just another "drop of water" in a much bigger world inhabited by beings much larger than ourselves, who don't think of us just as we do not think of the micro organisms in our own world? :book: