Chapter 30-1. bella alessandra

MARLEY once read in her study of Biology that if every strand of DNA in a single human body was unspooled, it could span thirty-four million miles, or the distance from Earth to the Sun and all the way back - sixty-one times. Another interesting fact: almost all of ordinary matter is empty space, which means if one were to take out that empty space in every atom belonging to every human on Earth - the remaining matter could be packed into the size of one sugar cube. Billions upon billions of people, of ideas and brain power and love and hope and dreams - could be squeezed into something small enough to be dropped into your morning coffee. There are a lot of facts like those that Marley still struggles to wrap her head around to this day. There is far too much to still be known about life that even the brightest human minds have barely scratched the surface of all there is to learn. There are so many lingering questions about the massive universe surrounding planet Earth, let alone the