There is an absolutely fascinating website at: (https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347)
I had been taught that man is tiny and insignificant in the scale of the universe. As most things I was taught, that is wrong!
The website shows the relative scale of all known objects. It places the smallest known object on the left extreme, and the largest on the right. It then shows the scale for all objects between the two.
Man is not tiny and insignificant; we are in fact huge and insignificant. We are larger than just over 60% of the known universe and smaller than just under 40% of all known objects. (The median object, the object that sits near the center between largest and smallest, is about the thickness of a human hair).
Now here is the really fascinating part. Those strange people with a mathematical mind will probably recognize the ratio 61/39. That is the “Golden Ratio”. The golden ratio is a consistent pattern found throughout the universe; from the forms of galaxies, the shape of hurricanes and tornados, the form of the human body, the animal and plant universe and in our very own DNA. In many scientific minds, it is mathematical proof that voids the theory of evolutionary creation and establishes design. Both randomness and pattern cannot co-exist, any more than light and dark.
And here, in our universe, at or near the center of the Golden Ratio; sits man.
I had been taught that man is tiny and insignificant in the scale of the universe. As most things I was taught, that is wrong!
The website shows the relative scale of all known objects. It places the smallest known object on the left extreme, and the largest on the right. It then shows the scale for all objects between the two.
Man is not tiny and insignificant; we are in fact huge and insignificant. We are larger than just over 60% of the known universe and smaller than just under 40% of all known objects. (The median object, the object that sits near the center between largest and smallest, is about the thickness of a human hair).
Now here is the really fascinating part. Those strange people with a mathematical mind will probably recognize the ratio 61/39. That is the “Golden Ratio”. The golden ratio is a consistent pattern found throughout the universe; from the forms of galaxies, the shape of hurricanes and tornados, the form of the human body, the animal and plant universe and in our very own DNA. In many scientific minds, it is mathematical proof that voids the theory of evolutionary creation and establishes design. Both randomness and pattern cannot co-exist, any more than light and dark.
And here, in our universe, at or near the center of the Golden Ratio; sits man.
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