When Galaxies Collide

The most complex object in the known universe is in my skull, and yours too! The brain is estimated to have over 100,000,000,000 neurons. That's about how many stars are estimated to be in our Milky Way galaxy. So, congratulations: you have a galaxy in your head. But it's more amazing than that; neurons are way more complex than stars, so your brain really is far more complex than most galaxies!

As you may have seen on many news sites today, NASA has released a few dozen Hubble images of galaxies colliding. It's fascinating to see how one glob of 100 billion stars affects and is affected by another glob of 100 billion stars as gravity does its thing. Sometimes they destroy each other, and sometimes they meld into a new larger galaxy. As amazing as that is, I think something far more interesting and unpredictable is what happens when Person A comes into contact with Person B. Galaxies collide! What's going to happen? It's anybody's guess!

O Holy God, how wondrous is your creation! My awesomely designed 3-pound, 100-giganeuron brain can't even begin to fathom the depths of your wisdom!