Robert Oldershaw
1 min readSep 3, 2017
Globular Star Cluster

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

William Blake

There may be more to this vision of Blake’s than poetry, or mental aberration.

The concept of relative scale, as opposed to absolute scale, has considerable motivation and empirical grounding in science. The link below offers an exploration of this idea.

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