My view while sitting alone on top of a sand dune at three o'clock in the morning capturing ancient photons from distant stars and contemplating the universe. Here's something to wrap your head around. Many estimates put the number of stars in the universe at somewhere between 5 to 10 times the number of grains of sand on Earth. Equally mind blowing is that a single grain of sand has more atoms than all of the stars in the universe. Whoa.