To gain a richer sense of cosmic proportions, we can paraphrase - TopicsExpress

Whole Earth Provision Co.

To gain a richer sense of cosmic proportions, we can paraphrase William Blake, and see the Earth as a fine grain of sand. The sun, then would be an orange-sized object twenty feet away while Jupiter the biggest planet of the solar system would be a pebble eighty-four feet in the other direction - almost the length of a basketball court - and the outermost orbs of the solar system, Neptune and Pluto, would be larger and smaller grains, respectively, found at a distance of two and a quarter blocks from Granule Earth. Beyond that, the gaps between scenic vistas become absurd. …Assuming our little orrery of a solar system is tucked into a quiet neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, you wont reach the next stars - the Alpha Centauri triple star system - until somewhere just west of Omaha, or the star after that until the foothills of the Rockies. And in between astronomical objects is lots and lots of space, silky, sullen, inky-dinky space, plenty of nothing, nulls within voids. Just as the dominion of the very small, the interior of the atom is composed almost entirely of empty space, so, too, is the kingdom of the heavens. Nature, it seems, adores a vacuum. - Natalie Angier

Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:30:25 +0000

To gain a richer sense of cosmic proportions, we can paraphrase - TopicsExpress

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