Astrophysics

Of Mice and Chucky

My awe of the universe is exceeded only by my inability to understand its limits.  In a way, you could say that I'm too stupid to be an atheist. A concept that has long fascinated me - and a lot of others - has our universe being nothing more than, say, a single atom in the eye of  some space chicken living on a planet in the real universe. These pictures of mouse brain neuron cells, next to a computer simulation of how the world evolved, prove to me that Chucky Schumer is a smaller flyspeck than even I imagined.