Perspective
#1 of Miscellaneous
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A quark. An elementary particle - that is, the smallest particle we know of and which has no observed or theorised sub-structures. The fundamental building block of our entire universe.
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Two ups and a down - a proton, a cluster of three quarks and a fundamental component of an atom, a word that itself means "uncuttable", something that supposedly could not be further divided.
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A spherical object barely an ..ngstrom wide and ninety percent of that volume we can't even see, only prove by probability and theorisation. A singular atom of helium and the second smallest atom we know of, only bested by the mono-nucleon element, hydrogen.
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An object shaped like an egg with a tail - an apt description for the cell in question. It's axial filament, four times the length of the rest of the spermatozoa, spiralling to propel the streamlined warhead through the fluid in which it swam.
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A swarm of millions of wiggling objects, individuals barely visible, swimming through a sugary liquid, each blindly and dumbly seeking the same goal.
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A spurt of creamy liquid erupting from the engorged, fleshy head of a penis to land, effectively wasted, upon bare flesh.
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A man and a woman, faces and bodies showing signs of sexual desire that translate even across other species, as they reach and quickly pass the critical moment of a liaison that would take longer to describe than it did to perform.
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A vast, sprawling city, grey with concrete and the smoke of industry, alive with the sound of life. A swarm of millions of people, individuals barely visible, moving through their stone habitat, each blindly seeking similar goals.
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An oddly-shaped mass of land, mostly a mottled green and surrounded by dark blue sea and ocean. Only the largest cities are still visible and even they are little more than greyish stains amidst the vast carpet of green.
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Another green mass girded in blue, the island now just a small and poorly-distinguished blob, dwarfed by the continent in which it resides.
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A sphere hanging against a dark background, a mixture of blue, green and white, details obscured.
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A glowing sphere of light so bright that it hurts, the largest of its satellites little more than a spot of shadow as it passes across the field of illumination and the blue/green sphere no longer visible.
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A ring of dust, dirt and rocks with a tiny pinprick of intense light at its centre.
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The pik-Oort Cloud, a hollow sphere of water, ammonia and methane nearly one hundred thousand Astronomical Units in diameter. The light from the star at its centre, itself now too small to observe in the visible spectrum, would take nearly 10 months to reach and cross this enormous cloud.
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A swirling, glowing maelstrom of light, like water going down God's plughole. Each arm of the spiral containing tens of billions of star systems like the one before and the entire contents of the galaxy numbering in the hundreds of billions of stars, each with its own collection of planets and other orbiting bodies. Light from the centre, travelling at a touch under three hundred million metres every single second, would still take fifty millennia to reach the far end of any one of these spiral arms.
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Several dozen glowing shapes fill the view, with only the largest - a just discernible spiral near the centre - large enough to make out as anything more than a point of light, and even that a mere hundredth of the size of the collection.
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Hundreds of light sources now, each with a clear gap in between it and its nearest neighbours. A single, tireless photon, unhindered by any resistance in this heavily-populated vacuum, would not complete a journey from one side to the other in a hundred epochs.
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A field of light almost entirely covering the black background upon which it lies. Hundreds of millions of superclusters, each too small to be observed as anything more as a miniscule contributor to the luminous grandeur of this vast stage. A particle of light starting at the very centre, when it all began, and travelling at its normal speed would barely be a fifth of the way to the edge of what we know. Within this plane is contained everything we know of and can theorise the existence of. There is nothing more. Nothing grander. Nothing bigger.
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A Yuokt. An elementary particle - that is, the smallest particle we know of and which has no observed or theorised sub-structures. The fundamental building block of our entire universe.