waltzinblack Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Hope its not a repost, or been popular before. It's so amazing to see clearly how we as humans are both massive, important and complex, but also tiny and insignificant at the same time. http://scaleofuniverse.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff-r Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 That's pretty interesting, but how do they know how big the universe is if we can't see past the edge of the universe? What's outside the universe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zollburgers Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 They don't. You have way more chance of understanding how much bigger the things are getting with each slide than what mankind collectively knows about how big the Universe is. You have zero chance of comprehending how much bigger those things are getting because you live inside a human brain that deals with things it can see. So that leaves mankind kind of screwed about the rest of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 What's outside the universe? That's an interesting question...I've always believed that space is infinite so there could be further universe's just like ours out there but at truly mind boggling distances...trillions of light years away perhaps (or much further) . Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dblock Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 space is weird you dont work on distance and speed but distance is defined in speed and speed in time. Mass can also slow or stop time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 That is cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Some interesting stuff. It hurts my brain to consider; If we can only see up to 140 Ym of our Uinverse, and it's estimated to be 900 Ym, then thats a hell of a lot of stuff that we can't see/know about e.g other planets/universes. And then, even if we could see up to the edge of our universe, what's to say there isn't another universe next to us? Or even lots and lots of other universes When you think of things on these sorts of scales, it's actually hard to fathom that Humans would be the only intelligent lifeform out there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK350Z Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 That's pretty interesting, but how do they know how big the universe is if we can't see past the edge of the universe? What's outside the universe? Human physics stops at the edge of the universe. Beyond that is conjecture at the minute! As for other intelligent life, such is the age and size of the universe, millions of civilisations could have come and gone and we would never know about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldel Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 That's pretty interesting, but how do they know how big the universe is if we can't see past the edge of the universe? What's outside the universe? Infinity +1 It actually makes your head ache trying to figure it out - what really gets me is how far back you can go, what preceded what? What was here before the universe, and what was here before that? Where did it all come from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vik54 Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 'Tis amazing when you stop to think about these things... head hurts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyd Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 If you havent already, watch Wonders of the Universe its on BBC iplayer at the moment. Really is amazing but unfortunately makes you realise how insignificant we are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gort Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 The WOW! factor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK350Z Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 If you havent already, watch Wonders of the Universe its on BBC iplayer at the moment. Really is amazing but unfortunately makes you realise how insignificant we are +1 Brilliant series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 If you havent already, watch Wonders of the Universe its on BBC iplayer at the moment. Really is amazing but unfortunately makes you realise how insignificant we are I'm very happy being insignificant. I always loved the bit in '28 Days Later' when the army said that wiping out the humans on earth would return it to normal..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzr350z Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Always thought the universe stopped at Watford,if you live down south! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choptop Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 If they do not do cider on other planets then they can keep them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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