Are the similarities between the universe and the human brain deeper than we thought?
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00:00To anyone who has looked closely enough, the universe kind of looks like a brain.
00:06But now researchers from the University of Verona and the University of Bologna say,
00:10there may be more similarities in their structure than what meets the telescoped eye.
00:14The universe is thought to have at least 100 billion galaxies,
00:17made up of an intricate web that links them together.
00:20Similarly, the human brain has a network of neurons, about 70 billion of them,
00:24an equally complex web of data delivering tendrils.
00:27What's more, in both of the independent systems, the connecting filaments account for about 30% of its mass,
00:32while the passive areas, i.e. the brain's grey matter and the universe's dark matter, make up the other 70%,
00:38which the researchers say could mean extremely different physical processes may converge to incredibly similar,
00:43albeit complex, organized structures, adding that both systems' connection points were similar as well,
00:48with the researchers concluding that each part of both the brain's and the universe's structural parameters
00:53were more akin to one another's than to other parts of their own respective systems.
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