Wednesday, February 19, 2014

These photos don't really make much sense, only I know what the object really looks like, because only I can see what is off screen.

Who can tell what this is a picture of? By the given image there is very little to use for an educated guess. Evidently it is exposed to the elements, some sort of plant matter gives that away. The concentric circles are obviously man made, no natural phenomenon produces grooves that symmetrical. Yet the tops of the ridges are clean, indicating that something regularly rests atop it and leaves erratic scratches along the surface occasionally. That is where the data stops, and only assumption remains. What you cannot see, is the rope that protrudes from the center of the circular seat which the grooves are a part of. The object that sits atop it, leaving scratches across its surface, are young (and old, I'll admit) people who wish to experience the way the forces of gravity affect a 'Pendulum'. 

Life is so much smaller than we can possibly comprehend. 'Minimum Distance and Maximum Clarity', this is a bit of concrete, with a little pebble covered in moss tiny enough that to the passersby, it merely looks like a green rock. As humans, we rarely associate ourselves with things much smaller than what our eyes can easily see, if it gets much smaller than that it simply doesn't make enough of a difference to matter. This 'pebble' as I call it was probably a quarter of your pinky-fingernail, really not that small to be honest, because a red blood cell is about 8 micrometers, or 0.0008cm. So small that it may as well not even exist... right? 

This is the 'Mud-Mat' that I walk over every day to get into the office for school. it is commonplace for me, I barely even notice its existence. But what would be the repercussion of removing it? Dirty floor, dirty shoes, not much really. What would be the repercussion of removing something equally commonplace, but far more important, lets say... my heart. It beats around 1.1 times per second, and it has all my life, it weighs around 0.625% of my body mass, so really its not that big. Why is my heart so special if I never even notice it? 
The Earth's mass is 5.9736 x 10^24kg, I won't convert that number from scientific notation for the sake of brevity, nor will I add the estimated mass of the galaxy in comparison to that of our tiny planet. Suffice it to say our earth is many times smaller in comparison to the galaxy than a single heart cell is to our body. Our human minds tend to ignore things too small to make much difference, yet all things are composed of even smaller things, and without those smaller composite parts no matter how large something is, it will break down and collapse. In the end, its is only the small things that matter, things 
so small they are taken for granted are all there is, and each one has a particular role.

Until next time.

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