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Neurons in the brain – illustration
Credit: Benedict Campbell. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
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What does that look like?
It’s an illustration of neurons in the human brain, but what does it look like?
There are hundreds of billions of neurons in your brain.
There are hundreds of billions of stars in a galaxy.
There are hundreds of billions of galaxies.
If there are 9.4 billion humans on Earth, who’s using the rest of those neurons out there?
Perhaps I should say Who is using the rest of them and He’s on 1st.
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From: Gemini, Subaru & Keck Discover large-scale funneling of matter
onto a massive distant galaxy cluster, a post on the Gemini Observatory’s
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The image above is a computer rendering of data we collected about a section of the universe. Every little light particle you see there is a galaxy and each of those may contain hundreds of billions of start, at least.
What does that look like? Brains!!!
So, if galaxies represent brains, then those patterns represent our interrelationships with each other.
Or, fancy this one, Batman: There’s no reason that everything in the universe shouldn’t be evenly distributed. Well, they (them) think it was because of inconstant occlusions in the original matter that was created.
The Universe is still expanding, but not like things thrown from a gun, or bits of grenade after the explosion — galaxies hold themselves together, but all of the galaxies are moving away from each other and their velocities are increasing. Scientists have had to invent “dark energy” to explain it — a mysterious something or other we can’t detect, but that on paper explains the process. It shouldn’t be possible because that means that more and more energy is being put into the universe to power that acceleration.
And, galaxies themselves should fly apart. At least that’s what scientists used to think until they confirmed the existence of super massive black holes at the center of big galaxies. Without the black holes, there is not enough matter in a galaxy to account for enough gravity to hold the stars together considering the speed at which they go around the centers of their galaxies. I don’t know if the math works now, but I’m guessing it does — it was this “problem” that prompted astronomers to look closer for those black holes.
By the way, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is a proven fact. A nice lady astronomer found it by looking for years at how stars at the center of our own galaxy were moving.
So where is the energy to push the galaxies apart coming from?
Perhaps matter is being destroyed in the black holes and turned back into energy.
Then He’s using that energy as he likes.
It’s most likely that everything we observe about the universe is a product of our own need to have references grounded firmly on Earth. We know gravity. We know matter can be destroyed for energy (splitting the atom). We know matter can be combined for energy (thermonuclear weapons and the sun).
Perhaps our own search for reason created the hologram around us.
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