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LIFE IN THE SLITHER. There must be biological consequences of living in a scale sandwich, but we have never asked that question, it seems. View in LinkedIn

THE SLITHER IN THE MIDDLE. Life is trapped between the infinitesimally tiny and the astronomically gargantuan in a a tiny slither of scale 10(-6) to 10(2). The smallest thing in existence, the Planck Particle, is 1.5 x 10(-34) meters. Living things range from 1 x10(-7) meters (a virus) to 1 x 10(2) meters (a blue whale); the estimated entire, but expanding, universe is a staggering 1 x 10(27) meters. (Nikon’s lovely interactive graphic). http://www.nikon.com/about/sp/universcale/scale.htm View in LinkedIn

A SNIPPETY TRIFLE. “The subject of this book is the structure of space-time on length-scales from 10(-13) cm, the radius of an elementary particle, up to 10(28) cm, the radius of the universe.” (The singular Stephen Hawking). Biologists could no sooner embrace this kind of immense thinking than fly to the moon. We are earth-bound creatures. https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking View in LinkedIn

FIRST DEEP GLIMPSE. “We once thought that the entire universe consisted of our Milky Way galaxy alone. The Hubble telescope changed that in 1924, when other far faint galaxies were glimpsed. Only in 1995 we had the first ever deep look into the universe, and later studies concluded 120 billion galaxies were in the observable universe, which has again been upgraded to trillions.” https://youtu.be/O57DyNMRGY8 View in LinkedIn

OUR STELLAR NEIGHBORHOOD to include the superclusters of galaxies in the observable universe. https://lnkd.in/esMtY24 View in LinkedIn

OUR OWN MILKY WAY GALAXY has 300 billion stars in it. https://lnkd.in/eWJ7vAG View in LinkedIn

PURPOSE OF LIFE. “Biology, as it is presently taught, answers that the purpose is to produce the next generation...There is nothing except continuity, no purpose except continued existence, now or in the future.” (Professor Sir Fred Hoyle, who coined the term the Big Bang). https://lnkd.in/egyjqhU View in LinkedIn

THE IMMENSE UNIVERSE, in which planet earth is so insignificant as to be unmentionable. https://youtu.be/WtWwV4DF_Ow View in LinkedIn

CHRISTMAS RANT. Foolish humans! So smug that we cannot read sophistication. Foolish humans! That we still think like people two thousand years ago. Foolish humans! That we cannot see what is in plain sight. View in LinkedIn

SPACE "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.” https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy View in LinkedIn