Bodies Living in the Past by Lian Fathi

We send astronauts all the time to space, but what about other living beings, plants for example?

Here is an essay that takes you on a journey of how plants might experience life in outer space.

From the plant’s peripheries, the center of human bodies is the heart; it is what circulates and keeps every element within them in motion. Some might say the heart of the house is the bedroom, the body rests and lives in the present, circling their daily habitual. In the ground, the skies, the center is unclear; the clouds circulate the weather, but it is not the driving entity of this world. It can be alleged that the circulating entity of the solar system is the sun. The beginning of the plant cycle starts the notion of light hitting the surface of the soil. The light gives the seed energy to sprout tall and flower to a fundamental being on Earth. The plant has a fusion of energy within, but it provides other beings essential resources. There is a necessity of plants for beings to live; if there are plants on other planets, beings can possibly live there. Light from the sun takes 500 seconds to give beings energy. This energy is from the future. This energy comes in on Earth in a nanosecond, a thousand-millionth of a second, measurable yet it takes a few seconds to cognize. The moon shows us a hint of the speed of energy, one second from the future. Energy from the sun can circulate the universe, and bodies’ driving essence. Bodies can regularly travel in vessels, around troposphere, thicker at the equator, thinner at the poles. Vessels are logical, a tool for traversing our distances. Light travels only a few nanoseconds into the future where the universe sensation is starting to be discovered. In vessels, the silence is encircled by entities gyrating with aerosols.  

Space, this universe, a google of universes, is not empty, it is moderately full. It has unmeasurable entities within it, but plant’s proportions do not compare to the unknown distance. Space’s distance does not have an end nor a beginning. Entities within live both in the past, and the future. We thought we were big compared to atoms, not much after sky buildings, where the atmosphere and clouds’ distances get inarticulate. We look at the sky and think the sun is small and near and the moon chasing us during the night at almost the same scale. The skies show us that moon and the sun are somewhat the same size, but the moon is 91341565.3 miles away from the sun, and the diameter of the sun is 864,337.3 miles compared to the moon with 2,159 miles, which is arguably measurable. Acknowledging the distance between the land is sky, one can multiple that to understand the distance of the first layer of Earth’s atmosphere and the moon which is approximately 238,855 miles. Traveling upwards helps bodies understand how the ground looks like, how the tallest sky building is only 0.5156 miles high and yet it looks small, up there. In a vessel, a moment of realization occurs as the cloud layers surround you. Everything becomes an euphony of metaphors as distance below is molded and space is still double what is above us. Plants immerse in all the light within them and turn it into energy; later to send plants to show bodies what it feels to be in the stillness.  

The plant’s journey explains the physiological limitation we have, the bodies limitations. The entities are different and Karman shields the plants. Infinite forces and gasses in space have a long war history, and it will never end. The particles, electrons and protons are accustomed on Earth, but outside that line, it is treated in a different way. Gravity keeps seeds grounded. Any plant can experience space, but can bodies even survive the tallest entity on Earth? There are more vulnerabilities other than communication and physical limitations. Departing beyond the gates of Karman opens up to a universe filled with infinite entities and absolute solitude. Another kind of universe lives beneath the land; the plants have their own silent communication language. Their roots are their nervous system which they can warn other plants of danger, existence of water, weather, etc. For the majority of persons on Earth, communication is through studied sound wave vibrations. If beings want to exist outside of Earth, will they survive the silence or design a new language of communication?  

A plant can train for their departure, but they won’t survive their oblivion scale within the universe, space starts to feel empty. When the plant gets back to earth, it is traveling to the past. Vessels can virtually sense the same sensation as the universe, through the silence. 

Thank you for reading..