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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
-Brian Greene
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How Can A Speck Of A Universe

Brian Greene
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
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In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe.
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