Through the Microscope

Clearly Mark Smith loves to immerse himself in the world of the small. He describes his delight in finding so much life in such a small space. He finds it fascinating how we are connected to these "animalcules", humans have a symbiotic relationship with these millions of microscopic organisms living around us and inside us. We need them and they need us. They help our bodies function properly and we basically provide them with a place to live (us).

While a lot of this article was a little too scientific for me to follow, it did spark my imagination. There is a whole world that we are not able to see without a microscope. And for the most part we never give that world a second thought, if any of us think of it at all, and yet without it we would not be able to survive. It makes me wonder...astronomers are always saying how small the Earth is compared to the universe as a whole. There are even theories that our universe is sandwiched between hundreds if not thousands of other universes. That makes us all very small indeed. So in a way it's all relative...we're just as small as all those little animalcules that Smith talks about.