The basic problem is to understand that there are no such things as things; that is to say separate things, separate events. That is only a way of talking. What do you mean by a thing? A thing is a noun. A noun isn't a part of nature it's a part of speech. There are no nouns in the physical world. There are no separate things in the physical world either.—Alan Watts, No Such Thing
Here's a photo of a million galaxies! If by nothing else we are all bound and not separate by gravity!
Explanation: Are the nearest galaxies distributed randomly? A plot of over one million of the brightest "extended sources" detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) shows that they are not. The vast majority of these infrared extended sources are galaxies. Visible above is an incredible tapestry of structure that provides limits on how the universe formed and evolved. Many galaxies are gravitationally bound together to form clusters, which themselves are loosely bound into superclusters, which in turn are sometimes seen to align over even larger scale structures. In contrast, very bright stars inside our own Milky Way Galaxy cause the vertical blue sash. Astonomy Picture of the Day - One Million Galaxies
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image or images with the following acknowledgment: "Atlas Image [or
Atlas Image mosaic] obtained as part of the Two Mic...ron
All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of
Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California
Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and the National Science Foundation." This is the stated
policy of 2MASS. mage Credit: 2MASS/T. H. Jarrett, J. Carpenter, and R. Hurt
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