Watching Bill Nye with the kiddo and talking about atoms, I just paused it to tell her the place they studied the atoms was 50 feet underground to protect the people above and it hit me that I'm full of that potential being made of atoms myself, we are all full of the the thing that is too small for my mind to comprehend on a scale I can also not comprehend, this tiny thing that requires giant machines to study, with the potential to flatten cities, I need to lie down.
A nuclear cloud superimposed over a head GIF would be amusingly appropriate but I can't be bothered to dig one up.
@tippitiwichet might this suffice? (I know it’s not what you asked for but this is how it makes me feel… *also lies down*)
@Coffee_and_Salt Yup, because I was totally thinking it was the bewilderment of infinity, just in the other direction. Scientifically induced spiritual epiphanies are cool.
@Coffee_and_Salt Now that's mentally colliding with my fingerprint thing and I'm over here going "wheeeee" and I didn't even eat the edibles, it's perfect.
https://tippitiwichet.com/2023/02/09/you-have-done-good-yes-you-i-mean-it/
@tippitiwichet yeah. The eternal and the infinite. This calls for a (very) nerdy song about the Mandelbrot Set.
“Mandelbrot Set, you're a Rorschach Test on fire
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
You're one badass f*ing fractal
And you're just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way…”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6tsutU92rrE&pp=ygUObWFuZGVsYnJvdCBzZXQ%3D