Point of view

Let’s tune to right thinking before I continue with my posts. I suppose, that switching to a very abstract level of thinking allows to see thing more clear and be open not only for digesting new stuff, but also generating own curious ideas!

Some ages ago people used to think that Earth is flat, then they thought Sun and stars were object on, so called, celestial sphere spinning around the Earth and so on. Now we know that there are planets, stars, star clusters, galaxies, black holes and many more. But does this actually mean something for simple human?

Everyone is living his life, working, resting, sometimes spending time on hobbies, etc. And we forget and do not care about “global nature” - universe and our place in it. All our world is just us, our relatives, friends and colleagues and little spot where all mentioned action takes place. So everyone is a center of his own universe and this is the human nature.

But if You want to understand or just imagine real world in its all range and variety, forget about You everyday life, forget about Earth. Imagine sandy seashore and the ocean huge far as eye can see. Let’s say, this beach is a universe. Then Earth is one grain of sand or water drop. Human life on Earth is bit of a second on this imaginary beach. Position of Earth and all the Milky Way is probably a matter of Your foot movement on that sand, galaxy formation is mater of one wave washing the sand.

Globally, Earth and all life on it is nothing special in scales of universe. In fact, is it is nothing at all. If Earth disappears in a moment, it changes nothing. Maybe it would cause a slight gravitational shift in Solar system bodies positions and that’s it - Universe remains same as it was. So it is better to imagine that there is no Earth at all if You want to imagine, visualize something about space, time, universe.

Still it is hard or impossible task to realize real scale of thing beyond Earth, but lets at least try and forget egocentric worldview, as well as geocentric. In fact, exploring anything new and unknown require total abstraction, so let’s be open-minded and leave everyday life behind on the way to imagining processes that are happening in the universe now and that, I hope, excites You a lot!