Tiny spots

Looking above the dark sky is the seed of our knowledge.  The feeling that comes when you see the night sky is truly amazing… 

When we are resting outside alone, we will happen to see the sky.

What will come to your mind?

Mind of elders will always think about their family, society and some other things. Mind of youngsters will always think about enjoying their lives with friends and others.

But the mind of the Scientists and the children will always think in a same way.

They will ask questions.. "the great questions of philosophy and science".

To feel the nature, please do the following. Go straight to your upstairs of your house and lie down, then watch the sky.

 Forget that you are in upstairs. Forget that you are in your house. Forget that you are in the earth.

But deeply focus on the night sky.

Now ask, where are you?

Your school mind will say

"I am in the earth and the earth was in the solar system"

 If you are little matured youngster learned science,

Your mind will say that you are in the universe.

But what is meant by “Universe”?

Does it have a shape?

            Does it have an end?

What was the limit of this universe? .

And moreover coming to the starting question,

Where is this universe?

These question goes on continuously without limits. 
You may ask these as many times you want.

 But don't lose the focus.

It is possible to make you very small. Very small like atoms!!!!!

You can ask me “How is it possible? Do you find a machine or something else like in the film “Honey I shrunk the kids" …..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never find any machines. 
But I will just try to make you realize.

What I am going to do is like convex lens or magnifying glass.

When you see the letters by convex lens it looks large.

Though the letters are not really large, the lens makes you to think like that by creating an illusion.

In the same way I can make you small rather than an atom with the question “Where”.

I will magnify the surroundings using this magnifying glass.

As I said before if you are in the upstairs focused on the sky with the question “where”, slowly the process of magnifying starts in your brain.

When you asked the first “Where”, “where are you living?”

You will mention your house and your street.

When you compare your size with the size of the street you are like a small rat. 

If you ask another “Where” that is “where is your street?” 

You will mention your city.  Comparing with your city, you will be tiny like an ant.

Then again ask the next “Where”.

Now you will mention the full details of your position that is, your state, your country, your planet, your solar system, your galaxy and then finally the universe.

Now If you think that you are standing outside the earth, you will not see any creature in the world. May be you can see the Great Wall of China like a small line. Then you can see the big countries and the continents and the great oceans. But you will never able to see a human.

The size of the human becomes small as the size of the bacteria or amoeba comparing with the size of the earth.

I have magnified only about the small convex lens by using the size of Earth.

But I can magnify like a microscope by taking the solar system as the tool - The sun.

The size of the sun!!!!

1,300,000 Earths will fit inside the Sun.

 Also there are stars which larger than the sun.

Like the ones known as blue stars. We can put billions and billions of suns in that star.

And what about the earth?

How many earths can fulfill those blue stars?

But don't stop..  After all, there is galaxies. A galaxy has billions of blue stars and much more star systems.

And finally comes the Universe which has billions and billions of galaxies.

You can ask whether there is something else after this “Universe”.      

I don't know the answer. May be you can find.

Universe is similar to the infinity in mathematics.

We don't know what the final number in the number system. But to represent the largest number we made the symbol infinity.

Similarly we named the term Universe to represent the largest known space.

Now try to compare the size of a human and this whole universe...

What will come to your mind?

You have become incredibly small rather than anything else.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!