{"id":613,"date":"2010-07-03T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T07:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2010-07-03T08:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T07:38:17","slug":"the-small-and-the-immense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/03\/the-small-and-the-immense\/","title":{"rendered":"The Small And The Immense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was struck when I learned about the atom &#8211; that most of it is empty space. Electrons and protons circling at a distance a nucleus. And I vividly remember thinking how like the Universe it was: things in orbits, forces in play, unceasing motion and mostly . . . emptiness. I \u00a0doubt there are also miniature humans on the odd electron (as in some supposed science fiction magazine) but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if in the future they find something they didn&#8217;t expect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it is how the small is an image of the immense that interested me and vice-vera. As if the template were fixed and everything mirrored it. Which has implications for other things. I have often said though we consider ourselves brilliant as a species, we cannot do anything nature doesn&#8217;t allow to be done. And our natures are images of her processes. Which implies that somehow, so is our reason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are few people who think that &#8216;nature&#8217; thinks, preferring to believe in some organised brain in a \u00a0godhead for that sort of thing, but mirror images are never exact. There may well be reason in the Universe that is neither godly nor human; a reason we reflect but is unlike ours . . \u00a0. ours being so small, or ours being so personal or so especially human.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a reason though that is broader and wider than ours because it includes all species, all worlds, all ideas and all thoughts whereas we are terribly parochial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck when I learned about the atom &#8211; that most of it is empty space. Electrons and protons circling at a distance a nucleus. And I vividly remember thinking how like the Universe it was: things in orbits, forces in play, unceasing motion and mostly . . . emptiness. I \u00a0doubt there are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[360,766],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-ideas","tag-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}