Web of Life


In the grand scheme of things
As from biological to cosmological levels we ebb
The fundamental patterns are always the same
At the base of it all is the web

At the biological level the genome
Arranged as a web in the species, recall
With DNA moving back and forth between genomes
Producing change, the fundamental principle behind it all

Similarly at the cosmological level, the galaxies
Are arranged as a web in the cosmos, so true
And it seems, to extend the analogy
There may be movement between galaxies too

Which one day may likely be proven
And if so is one further step tall
To explaining our place in the cosmos
And the time and space of it all



The classical Darwinian theory has as its base the principle of the tree of life. Recent work seems to suggest that rather than a tree, life is a web with constant flow of genomes between species. As an extension of this principle, at the cosmological level, galaxies are similarly arranged in web patterns in the universe. It is not too far fetched then to think that there may also be interconnection between galaxies which may be proven sometime in the future.



John Cornick
Halifax, Nova Scotia

  Submitted By: John Cornick