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by seoulmetro 600 days ago
>in that being this small we can know so much!

We only know what we think we know. We could just be grains of sand in someone else's world for all we know.

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"Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth."

- Carl Sagan

Yeah, but there are more atoms than grains of sand. We can still be grains of sand in someone's universe.