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In the vast depths of space,
our Earth occupies no
more room than a grain of
sand on a beach. The uni-
verse is too large for
human minds to compre-
hend.
the grass on which I lie, which would have been yet richer with
stars. And oh, yes-one more small change: There would have been
no me to do the viewing…All that waster space! On the other
hand, in this very waste lies our safety. 13
The universe’s vast empty spaces, Greenstein explains, de-
termine the value of physical variables that make human life on
Earth possible and also prevent the Earth from colliding with
other cosmic objects traveling through the universe.
In short, the distribution of stars in the universe is exactly as
they must be for human existence on Earth. The vast empty
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