Can you picture in your mind just how big the universe is? Florida State University has put up a very interesting Java applet on their site. It begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then zooms into towards Earth in powers of ten of distance. 10 million, to one million, to 100,000 light years and so on... http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.
That is so cool. It blows my mind to think that you can travel, at light speed, for 100 million years and still not be at the other end of the universe.
the thing about space that i always wonder about is where it came from? for example the earth, stars, other places were created and they take up space....but WHERE did space come from? space cant be created...... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Awesome. Thanks. Interbeing: There is no phenomenon in the cosmos that is not interconnected with us, from a pebble resting at the bottom of the ocean, to the movement of a galaxy millions of light years away. Walt Whitman said, I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.... "I am large, I contain multitudes".
I ran across this today.. The universe is so vast in relation to the matter it contains that it can be compared in the following way: A building 20 miles long, 20 miles wide and 20 miles high that contains 1 grain of sand.
Just as the universe is, for all practical purposes, infinitely large, is the universe, for all practical purposes, infinitely small. What I mean is, everything is made of something. If a quark is the smallest thing we have discovered, will we ever know what makes up a quark?
