moments of wonder

The thinking universe Is the universe really a massive brain? Neurons in the human brain form clusters that are connected by long nerve fibres called axons, which send electrical impulses from one neuron to another. The universe that we know contains around 200 billion galaxies, and under the pull of gravity these galaxies gather into clusters. Between these galaxy clusters are long threads known as “galaxy filaments” that can be hundreds of light years long. Physicists are noting that the universe looks like the network of nerve connections (the “connectome”) in the human brain. In 2020 two Italians, one an astrophysicist and the other a neuroscientist, published a paper in the journal Frontiers in Physics titled “The quantitative comparison between the neuronal network and the cosmic web”. They reported a “remarkable…

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