Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team used Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling law for touch sensitivity. (1)

Touch the rhinoceros.

Touch me.

Touch Earth.

They all feel it.

And so do you.

A sense of connectedness.

A sense of belonging.

A sense that you are me.

Blessed humans.

You can touch the edges of the cosmos.

As far away as the dirt at the bottom of your feet…

(A sense of nothingness?)