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I read the other day that astronomers have spotted a huge nebula in our galaxy in the shape of a double helix.

I couldnt believe it so I googled 'double helix in outer space' and sure enough there is a picture of it.

I havent been able to stop thinking about it.

As you recall a double helix is the design or configuration that our DNA shapes itself into within us; the genetic stuff that gives us blue or green eyes, blonde or brown hair.

And there is a big one of these double helixes, some 80 light years long, floating around in space in our galaxy 300 light years away from a black hole which is also located in our galaxy, which is about 25,000 light years away from earth.

Now that made me think, or start imagining things that may or may not be true.

A nebula is defined as being a vast mass of interstellar gas, so someone might say that just because it looks like a double helix doesnt mean its cosmic DNA. After all some clouds look like elephants or Napoleon, but that doesnt mean that clouds are the things they appear to be.

But still the idea is intriguing.

Why shouldnt the universe be a growing expanding organism?

I cant prove it is anymore than I can prove it isnt.

And the concept does upset a few preconceived notions I have. For example, lets take religion. Maybe God is not a guy with a long white beard sitting on a throne in heaven who has omnipotent powers, but instead the nucleus of a cell, a nucleus that is omnipotent and all seeing while at the same time interacting with all of its components, kind of like, a God.

And if we live in a living organism is it then possible that other organisms live within us, that we are supporting universes, galaxies and planets at a sub atomic level, much in the same way the universe is supporting us, creating a continuum of life with all of us being connected?

And some other questions come to mind.

If the universe is a living organism is it possible that the big bang theory was conception, the meeting of the egg and sperm with our universe being the zygote, ever expanding and growing?

And if thats true, then what is our universe growing up to be? A giant horse, or dog, or human?

And if thats true can a universe die?

And if it does shouldnt that fact change my entire concept of death as being final and absolute for surely when a universe dies its energy is transposed into something else, thus giving it eternal life?

Well, its just a thought.

Jim Muckle @ http://hometown.aol.com/jimmuckle/myhomepage/index.html