do you know where your towel is? |
it is funny that though i have had my share of a-ha! moments with science (a lot of which are described in all the comments before me in much better ways than i could ever) and arts (my first poem, one that actually rhymed, blew my mind), the one gobsmacking-awe-inspiring-kick-in-the-shin-punch-in-the-gut moment for me was something i cannot possibly begin to commence to think about starting to describe in any way a third party will understand…if i were not a rationalist, i’d call it a ‘religious’ moment:
nikon’s depiction of scale: the universcale |
i know, this is too long a post for such a simple a-ha! moment….but let me repeat it, because it cannot be said too often: the universe is huge