Patterns, forms, the essential building blocks of design, from a mouse’s brain to the entire universe. All of life, all the universe is related and so are we.
Microcosm, Macrocosm
This image comparison, first featured in The New York Times, definitely gives one something to think about. On the left is a microscopic image of a mouse brain’s neuronal network produced by Mark N. Miller of Brandeis University’s Nelson Lab. On the right is the Max Planck Institute’s computer simulation of the vast dark matter network (purple) connecting visible-matter galaxies (yellow) across the universe. “Together,” observes New York Times journalist David Constantine, “they suggest the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different natural phenomena.”
Source: What is Enlightenment
September 25th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Wonderful article and images showing the vibrant oneness of this whole connected Universe! This concept reflected also in one of my poems:
…in a hundred years my body will be dust
and what possessed it will be poured out
into love’s all-consuming roar
I will spin and swirl til I combust
and glitter out from every star
In this I trust
In this I trust…
Thanks for the enlightening article!
Kelly Athena
September 25th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Thank you for your enlightening poetry!