The universe: closer than you think.

People and scientist always do their best to explain the world around us using complex terms but if I recall something about my lessons was that everything can always be reduced and explained in its simplest form without the need of getting too complicated.

Take the universe for example:

Science has told us that the universe was born in a big explosion, but we have no actual 'proof' of that it is still a theory.
Science has also theorized the existence and behavior of black holes but then again they are 'theory' only we still have yet to see the proof of their existence.

Through science slowly grows and improves itself to prove each theory, I think we can get a lot of answers just looking around ourselves and I came with the following exercise:

*Go outside your house or apartment or wherever you live, for this simple exercise we will picture a sandy beach with rolling waves on one side and grassy patches on the other.
*Lean down and pick up a single grain of sand.
*Hold this grain of sand on your finger and imagine that this simple grain is the combination of several galaxies close enough to each other.
*With this in mind, look around yourself and see how many grains of sand are all around you.
*All grains of sand on the beach were on the dry area that is our 'universe' but if you toss the grain up to the winds its 'universe' around it changes, the basic physic conditions remain the same, as gravity but now this grain of sand flies alone away from any other grains or 'galaxies'
*If the grain of sand lands on the grassy patch, its universe around it changes again.
*If the same grain lands on the water its conditions change too, its universe is very different to what it used to be, yet the grain of sand still remains the same.

I think most things can be explained just looking around.

LT.

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