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[TheDR]

Link

A real cool little flash game thing, well worth the click. It starts with the smallest of everything and lets you zoom out to the largest

[Alias]

Also worth watching:

[Wizard]

Holy insignificance Batman!!

[Ghostrider]

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Whoa, awesome video. The guy has one of those put-you-to-sleep-in-the-classroom voices, but still, cool video.

[Alias]

How could you diss Carl Sagan. D;

[Ghostrider]

 Alias, on 12 Jul 2010, 11:04, said:

How could you diss Carl Sagan. D;

He started it, he made me feel insignificant.

[Chyros]

We get tons of stuff like that in my courses. It's a nice flash though, quite nicely done .

[Sgt. Nuker]

So, boil it all down, and you're left with the fact that the Earth isn't even a drop in the cosmos. It's a tiny percentage of a part of a percentage point of a "drop in the bucket", so to speak.

[Chyros]

 Sgt. Nuker, on 13 Jul 2010, 23:03, said:

So, boil it all down, and you're left with the fact that the Earth isn't even a drop in the cosmos. It's a tiny percentage of a part of a percentage point of a "drop in the bucket", so to speak.

No. It's actually almost infinitely smaller than even that. It's more of a water molecule in a zillion oceans. In fact, it's infinitely less than one water molecule in all water in the universe.

EDIT: and ironically, all matter consists of almost pure nothingness as well, and none of you have ever really touched ANYTHING in your lives .

Edited by Chyros, 13 July 2010 - 22:15.

[Destiny]

I've touched my share of things in my life









...that aside, we might not be significant in this universe, but we're significant where it matters - Earth.

[Sgt. Nuker]

While we're on the subject of matter (and to an even smaller scale, jokes), I believe the old adage "Those that care don't matter, and those that matter don't care" applies. A bit of a play on words, but Destiny was on to something when he said we matter where it counts, our own planet. Despite the sheer magnitude of space (both inner and outer), it, in a sense of the term, doesn't matter. All that really counts, is what's right in front of, and all around, us.

Now that I've waxed philosophic, I believe I'll retire from this thread.

[SonicBoom]

Even though this is a parody, I still find it relevant.

[Ghostrider]

So scientists think there's an end to the universe? I don't believe an end exists, it just continues forever.

[Chyros]

 Ghostrider, on 16 Jul 2010, 15:55, said:

So scientists think there's an end to the universe? I don't believe an end exists, it just continues forever.

No, it is believed it loops in on itself; the universe is four-dimensional. So there is no beginning or end.

[Ghostrider]

 Chyros, on 16 Jul 2010, 10:27, said:

 Ghostrider, on 16 Jul 2010, 15:55, said:

So scientists think there's an end to the universe? I don't believe an end exists, it just continues forever.

No, it is believed it loops in on itself; the universe is four-dimensional. So there is no beginning or end.

Let me rephrase that... I don't believe that there is a finite amount of anything in the universe. In that sense I mean it's endless.

[Destiny]

 Ghostrider, on 16 Jul 2010, 23:19, said:

 Chyros, on 16 Jul 2010, 10:27, said:

 Ghostrider, on 16 Jul 2010, 15:55, said:

So scientists think there's an end to the universe? I don't believe an end exists, it just continues forever.

No, it is believed it loops in on itself; the universe is four-dimensional. So there is no beginning or end.

Let me rephrase that... I don't believe that there is a finite amount of anything in the universe. In that sense I mean it's endless.

Heat death of the universe is actually quite a possible theory, but humans are probably going to destroy themselves and never get to see the end of the universe.


If it ever ends.


But then again there's the Big Crunch...

[deltaepsilon]

 Ghostrider, on 16 Jul 2010, 23:55, said:

So scientists think there's an end to the universe? I don't believe an end exists, it just continues forever.

It's like Last person to post wins.

[GuardianTempest]

Yeah, the thread will never end.

[partyzanpaulzy]

I wonder what happens if you reach an edge somehow (if the Space doesn't expanse with the speed of light). Crash in the barrier? Slip into other Universe? Push the expansion?
Heck I heard once about theory that Space looks like ball from hexagons... then that it looks like a cone...

About the aging of the Universe. Well, I hope there is cyclus like in everything... the last time I read about end of the Universe, Thermal Death without Big Crunch was in order.

And last time I heard the Universe has 11 dimensions according to the M Theory... but I'm just mere observer from the masses, not scientist.
EDIT: I can say only one thing to that scale: "Yo momma!" BTW, I didn't know there's such large galaxy in the Universe...

Edited by partyzanpaulzy, 13 August 2010 - 19:30.

[GuardianTempest]

[insert Gurren Lagann reference here]

[BeefJeRKy]

 GuardianTempest, on 14 Aug 2010, 1:19, said:

[insert Gurren Lagann reference here]

*insert Giant Spiral*

[JJ]

 partyzanpaulzy, on 14 Aug 2010, 3:17, said:

I wonder what happens if you reach an edge somehow (if the Space doesn't expanse with the speed of light). Crash in the barrier? Slip into other Universe? Push the expansion?

There's no such thing as an "edge". Think of the Earth, you can keep travelling in any direction forever, never actually stopped by an impassible boundary, but we know for a fact that Earth is not limitless.

[Sgt. Rho]

Well, there probably is a part from where on there is absolutely nothing what so ever, you could call that and Edge. But there is probably no "wall" there

[Golan]

No, the universe is probably the 4D equivalent to a sphere in 3D-space. For example, Earth is a sphere in 3D, making its surface (2D) limitless but not infinite. Likewise, the 4D "universe-sphere" has a 3D "surface" (what we perceive as space) that you could travel through infinitely but never hit an edge - you'd just end up at your starting point eventually, just like you would when you head out for about 40.025km straight in one direction on earth.

[GuardianTempest]

Wow Sandbox...