I am Not Myself Alone
Posted: 10 Aug 2018, 17:25
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
Psalm 139:14 - KJV
‘We are not just one,’ he said,
We are in fact a vast multitude
of over ten thousand million million
or 10 to the power of 15.
But to meet unity we must have
that number to make us whole.
Should you scale us up where an atom
would be the size of a pea and enter
the structure of one of us then
you would find yourself in an enclosure
a half mile across and this supported
by a complex framework of girders.
Within, millions of millions of objects the size
of basketballs and some the size of an auto
would whiz around at the speed of a travelling
bullet. You would not survive of course as you
would be pummelled and ripped apart
a thousand times a second.
A poem based on p. 334 of:
A Short History of Nearly Everything
By Bill Bryson
Psalm 139:14 - KJV
‘We are not just one,’ he said,
We are in fact a vast multitude
of over ten thousand million million
or 10 to the power of 15.
But to meet unity we must have
that number to make us whole.
Should you scale us up where an atom
would be the size of a pea and enter
the structure of one of us then
you would find yourself in an enclosure
a half mile across and this supported
by a complex framework of girders.
Within, millions of millions of objects the size
of basketballs and some the size of an auto
would whiz around at the speed of a travelling
bullet. You would not survive of course as you
would be pummelled and ripped apart
a thousand times a second.
A poem based on p. 334 of:
A Short History of Nearly Everything
By Bill Bryson