The Earth as "this sceptered isle" among the cosmic and spatial voids. Lynn Margulis calls it a Symbiotic Planet, because the life which transformed the air and water of Earth is really a composite of mutually supportive beings.

Terra was the Latin word for the Earth, once thought to be the center of space, and anchor of the planets and stars that appeared, but did not actually move around the Earth.

Space is largely empty but filled with subatomic particles.

The particles such as:

electrons (leptons)

atomic nuclei

Atoms are believed to be made of electrons, neutrons and protons which are built up from quarks. For reason to do with the weak force, every thirteen minutes a down quark decays into an up quark, transforming the very abundant neutrons into positively charged, protons, the atomic building block of chemical matter.

Quarks are the smallest constituent material of all living and nonliving things.

There are some who suggest that the mathematical formulas are simplified at ever higher dimensions and reveal that all particles and waves are really the vibration of tiny --extremely miniscule-- strings.

The vibrating frequency of the superstrings determines the type of subatomic particle, quarks or leptons that exist in the four dimensions we experience as spacetime.

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