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10.12
Galaxies as living organisms
 
  It is understandable because of their massive size and the difficulty in determining levels of detail, that our understanding of Galaxies has started from a fairly dry assessment of how a galaxy works.  
  However, as we have shown throughout this book so far, every level of matter can be regarded as being living and galaxies are no exception. Let us look at some critical understandings that help us to view galaxies as more than just "lucky mistakes".  
  (1) In deep mature space, there is a scarcity of food  
  While the Universe continues to create new Unita at its edges, in our part of the Universe, deep space is more like a desert. There is a scarcity of free particles, hence conditions aren't all that pleasant for single stars on their own.  
  (2) Stars and therefore galaxies need food to survive  
  If stars are not able to supplement their existing hydrogen reserves, then like all living organisms, they start acceleration on feeding their own reserves at an increasing rate. It is the same as a person who in the desert, with no food, will find their body starts to eat its own fats and proteins ( muscles) to survive until there is no internal food left and they die.  
  Stars are no different. Hydrogen is the fuel of the Universe. Without readily available fuel supplies, the Stars would burn into Red giants in a fraction of the time they do. It is logol therefore that Stars would choose to aggregate into communities, thereby regulating the attraction and dispensation of hydrogen to sustain a greater number of stars.  
  (3) Galaxies provide shelter, food, stable communities for Stars  
  Above all, galaxies not only provide food and shelter for Stars, they also provide aggregate gravities and rotations that allow a substantial proportion of Stars to exist under relatively prosperous conditions.  
  (4) Galaxies have the attraction rate to create nebulae clouds- the birthplace of stars  
  It is because of the massive gravitation pull of galaxies that nebulae are formed at their edges. Otherwise nebulae would not form at all.  
 
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