Euclid's Eye
Euclid is a telescope recently launched by the European Space Agency. It's goal is to map the 3D universe in a way that studies what we cannot see -- "dark" matter and energy. (Really they should be called invisible matter and expansion energy, but that isn't what I am seeking to focus on today.)
Part 1: Marvel
Check out this picture. I invite you to sit in the realization of how remarkable this is.
(Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA)
What do you see? Can you count every galaxy?
Every dot in the background... is a galaxy.
This is a picture of the Perseus cluster of galaxies. Notice all the "old gold" elliptical galaxies in the foreground that dominate the light and visible mass, and a plethora of "new blue" spiral galaxies in the background.
There are 1,000 galaxies in the Perseus cluster, and 1,000,000 dots in the background.
WHAT?!?!?!?!
I can't even fathom those numbers. Can you? Here is the link if you would love to zoom into its features.
Marvel at the existence of everything in this picture with me.
Marvel at the existence of everything. Enter that state, let it immerse and flow through you.
Go to the place where you take nothing for granted and the truth of existence flows through you and you don't stop it by claiming you know anything.
What do you find? Tell me a story.
Part 2: The Invisible
While we are here, it does inspire me to discuss the theoretical existence of a rather beautiful creature: dark matter. "Dark" matter is matter that flies through everything, untouched and touches nothing, except through gravity. It is more "invisible" than dark, because it theoretically doesn't interact with light, no nothing can see it.
Neutrinos are a proven form of dark matter, but to explain the formation of galaxies and ridiculously enormous clusters of galaxies (such as the Perseus), there must be a lot more matter that is way heavier than neutrinos than we can see with our "eyes" --> like Euclid and Hubble.
Imagine how much we cannot see in the picture above. Most of the matter is... invisible. Holding everything together like cosmic glue.
Connect that abstractly to all you cannot see in your life. All that exists that remains unseen. Even in the room you are in. In your soul. Not that which blocks out light, but that which light does not interact with at all. Imagine all that exists that light (or your awareness) passes right on through -- invisible to your consciousness.
{{ Touch it }}
Become... what is in-visible
Melt into it.
A most beautiful realization is this:
You are the universe.
Light. Dark. Invisible. Shadow. Form. Formless.
Everything.
Go there. Become that realization
Look at all you are.
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