Physicists discover that the structure of a brain cell is the same as the entire universe.
One is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light-years across. One shows neurons in a mouse brain. The other is a simulated image of the universe. Together they suggest the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different natural phenomena. (David Constantine)
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Huh.
If the brain cell had also been an image from a simulation, I would ask if this pair of images tells us more about the observer(s) than about the observed objects — and for sure I feel happy pointing out that both simulations and microscopes (or whatever set of tools and image processing techniques was used in producing the image on the left) are profoundly human constructions, and ‘network’ is a hugely popular metaphor (and its attendant theoretical framework is hugely powerful analytically) across many scientific domains these days — but I doubt this explains the resemblance.
