Fascinating facts # 1

I like to buy magazines that I wouldn’t normally buy every now and then. It is a great way to nurture creativity and to get the brain thinking in ways that are different.

Recently I bought an issue of ‘BBC Focus’ magazine, which is a science and technology magazine here in the UK, produced by the Public Broadcaster. It is full of fascinating facts.

There is a whole section on atoms, which includes this which I thought was really mind-warping:

“Atoms are 99.9% empty space. If all the space was sucked out of the atoms in your body, you’d shrink to the size of a grain of salt. If you did the same thing to the entire human race then all six billion of us would fit inside a single apple.”

I’m doing a series on Buddhism on this blog at the moment. This fact about atoms conjures all sorts of ideas about us being full of emptiness, and the idea that we can all fit inside an apple is a beautiful way of looking at the connectivity of us all.