Humans are hard-wired to seek out patterns. We find ourselves at somewhere between 4.5 and 6.5 feet tall, balanced between nested microscopic worlds that cascade into more and more minute orbits (organs, cells, molecules, atoms, quarks, etc.) and nested macroscopic worlds (town, city, region, state, nation, continent, earth, solar system, galaxy, galaxy…
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