Morn 1415 open     Is our world vast or small? What about our galaxy? Could our universe actually be tiny amid the multiverse?

   It is all perspective, of course, & my perspective underwent a quantum change when I took a few minutes to watch a startling video. Nearly ten million others have watched the same, mind-expanding sequence. I hope you will be one more.

   Here is the link to this special experience:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoW8Tf7hTGA

   Since the so-called multiverse is millions of light years away many of our notions of it remain theoretical. Yet, there is no escaping a few conclusions. It is not just you & I who are mere pinpoints on this earth, the earth itself is a pinpoint. So is the sun. In the multiverse our "vast" solar system is barely visible because our universe is one among, potentially, billions.

   The film exercise starts with a firefly. By searching inside our bodies we can run the film's premise in reverse.

   Your body, with 37 trillion cells, is its own multiverse. Each cell has a hundred trillion atoms. How does a body begin? A fertile male human ejaculates 2 to 5 milliliters of semen. That means there are up to half a billion seamen in a single ejaculation, each seeking the solitary egg a woman releases during ovulation.  

   Look out through the Hubble telescope or within using an electron microscope & what appears is more & more dazzling complexity. None of that tells us what matters most.

   Love is our sun. We orbit it, live by its light, heat & gravity & sing about how much we need it to shine into our lives & our souls. How "big" is love? As large as God. 

-Erie Chapman

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2 responses to “Days 330-334 – Our Universe is Tiny! The power of Morn1415”

  1. ~liz Wessel Avatar

    Mind boggling video, Erie as well as your fascinating essay. As I watched it I did think of the cells in the human body the microcosm of the macrocosm, which is what I think of when drawing mandalas as spiritual art form.
    The ending thought on the video resonated, that everything is in relationship to another… and most especially the beauty of your closing line.

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  2. Todd Meador Avatar
    Todd Meador

    This is a mind-stretching post Erie. I watched the video you linked to on Monday and spent about an hour researching related topics. We are smaller than most of us ever imagined, but also larger than most of us could imagine at the same time.

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