Magnification

Close up, seeing it, it looks nothing like the object that it is. Why does the microscope show the minuscule imperfections of objects? I guess when things are magnified, you can see the individual disfigurements, the atoms, molecules, bacteria, that are out of place. But in a way, these slight quirks form originality and beauty. In the same way that every snowflake is unique, every Leatherleaf fern is different, even if they have the same chemical composition. One electron out of place. One less proton. That's all it takes. Every spike of the fern, every vein in the leaf, is the only one like it.