Thread: The Scale of the Universe

Very cool, like a more user friendly version of this vid: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100120.html. Really puts the vastness of the universe into perspective.

I'd hate to run into one of those giant earthworms...

And it goes into small as well.

I don't know which way I find more fascinating, tbh.

Probably the most humbling video I have ever seen. Thanks for the share!

Jebus. I don't have words for this. Damn. We're so small. Even when compared to the small on subquark particles.

its hard to remember that each one of those bright lights represents an entire galaxy!

I have a kind of theory of everything in which there may be a large number of different universes and a tiny number of these have life in due to a correct combination of fundamental constants.

An interesting consequence of this would be that you'd be most likely to find yourself in a universe with most conscious beings in, which can presumably be correlated with the size of the universe. This is why our universe is so incomprehensibly big.

Most universes might actually be pretty small... like in The Little Prince.

I love these kinds of graphical representations. So humbling to be
reminded of how small we are, and, on the flip side, how phenomenally large we
are. It gives a new meaning to the phrase, "Everything is relative." The first
inkling I got of this universe's size came out of Bill Bryson's "A Brief History of
Nearly Everything."

These kinds of sizes, distances, are near impossible for me to fully wrap my
head around. That's what I find so fascinating about it.