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A map of neutral atoms, generated by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, shows a ribbonlike structure near the edge of the heliosphere, the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space. The ribbon is not predicted by any model. Blue denotes the lowest intensity of atoms, red the highest.
Credit: Image from Southwest Research Institute
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A membrane involving galaxies wouldn't be unthinkable...
Just consider one Oxigen (the athom) as dividing itself into 4 molecules we humans call Hidrogen and easilly we may understand their ability of getting together forming water.
At the same line of imagination, a cell, when divided after fertilized, divides itself in two, and then in two and forever while alive they remain doing just the same.
So... one only bubble of light may be able to contain, inside itself, infinities of identical brights repeating, while moving the original shapes, exactly the same smaller shades.
Thinking this "diferent" vision, we may believe Earth is not a planet, but a cell, and DNA's bigger our sizes, and number, names and abilities, are able, and here for, of constructing or destructing the contents of the cell.
Destroying the planet, we will die, but the planet will do it all over again. Will we be the same in the future?
Well... for those who believe time is just an human invention, the future is always here at the present, without only, the acknowledgment of the living here been.
A ribboned strutcture suggests - strongly to me! - an envelop on the whole content. And envelopes do travel without showing to the contents the road, but ... delivering, at the end, the messages.
Admited a cell, a galaxy would be imagined an organ and still far away of our comprehension would be the outside of the body containing it all.
We should consider the possibility of image and similatity among human beens and divinity, in a more scientific way.
Afterall, Science does understand that feellings change motions and acts changing our reactions against touches we get from the environments. And there is no life without feelings or motions. Maybe ... life came first. Maybe it has ever existed. Well... we'll get there. This ribbon shall move ... regularly.
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