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MathJakob
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Everyday I sit and think about the universe, and after some thinking I always end up letting my imagination run wild with what could be out there, what space is and is there a creator ect.
Then it's like getting smashed in the face with a wake up call... I can't possibly imagine anything in the universe.
The size of the universe is literally unimaginable, our brains can not comprehend the distances.
The size of objects is unimaginable, even our own sun is extremely hard to visualise and that's absolutely tiny on the grand scale of things.
The speed of light is impossible to imagine, traveling around the Earth 7 times per second.
The enormous energy produced by universal explosions such as supernovae, which is equivalent to about 10 octillion megatons of TNT.
And finally the most brain crushing question of them all, this is where I'm hoping I can get some help. Does anyone find it absolutely impossible to grasp the concept of something (energy) having always existed, the "stuff" that created that tiny piece of infinitely dense matter that turnt into the big bang.
Sometimes I think it's like a mouse trying to figure out the workings of a jet engine. It's just impossible! Although a caveman trying to figure out the workings of a jet engine would have been impossible too so hopefully if humans live long enough and our understanding becomes greater it may not be too difficult to not only visualise this stuff but actually grasp it.
There should be a word specifically created for describing how ridiculously massive the universe is. Maybe that word is universe... come to think of it xD
Then it's like getting smashed in the face with a wake up call... I can't possibly imagine anything in the universe.
The size of the universe is literally unimaginable, our brains can not comprehend the distances.
The size of objects is unimaginable, even our own sun is extremely hard to visualise and that's absolutely tiny on the grand scale of things.
The speed of light is impossible to imagine, traveling around the Earth 7 times per second.
The enormous energy produced by universal explosions such as supernovae, which is equivalent to about 10 octillion megatons of TNT.
And finally the most brain crushing question of them all, this is where I'm hoping I can get some help. Does anyone find it absolutely impossible to grasp the concept of something (energy) having always existed, the "stuff" that created that tiny piece of infinitely dense matter that turnt into the big bang.
Sometimes I think it's like a mouse trying to figure out the workings of a jet engine. It's just impossible! Although a caveman trying to figure out the workings of a jet engine would have been impossible too so hopefully if humans live long enough and our understanding becomes greater it may not be too difficult to not only visualise this stuff but actually grasp it.
There should be a word specifically created for describing how ridiculously massive the universe is. Maybe that word is universe... come to think of it xD
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