Am I nothing?

[Klostrophobic]

I am roughly 6 feet tall and the universe is infinitely large. So, with this known, am I infinitely small?

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[space]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
I am roughly 6 feet tall and the universe is infinitely large. So, with this known, am I infinitely small?

[witty responses not allowed.]

What no poll?

 

[Klostrophobic]

No.

 

[hpracing007]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
[witty responses not allowed.]

No comment.

 

[space]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
No.

 

[MazKid]

to me you're nothing. I'm less than 5 ft tall, and I'm something, most of the people here are somethings, but you seem to be border line between a something, and a nothing.

 

[Klostrophobic]

If you read the REAL question you would see what I am asking.

If I am nothing you are nothing compared to the universe.

 

[MazKid]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
If you read the REAL question you would see what I am asking.

If I am nothing you are nothing compared to the universe.

I READ the REAL question, and awsered it. Why do you post this stuff? No one has the true answer, and yet you still ask.

 

[Giancarlo]

You just can't be acted kindly to in a forum, can you?

 

[MazKid]

Originally posted by GCstyle
You just can't be acted kindly to in a forum, can you?

well, when you post junk and don't contribute to the forum, what do you expect.

 

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by MazKid
well, when you post junk and don't contribute to the forum, what do you expect.

Not to be rude, but almost no one can contribute to a forum. But you're right about posting junk and wasting the Mods' time.

 

[MazKid]

contribute as in answer questions and and post usefull stuff.

 

[Klostrophobic]

No one is answering my questions. I figure contributin ga sense of humor is something, although only a few people can see my sarcasm.

Whatever.

 

[Klostrophobic]

BTW, when someone asks me a question, I tell the truth, I am not going to lie and say "Oh yeah that is amazing!" or "Congrats on 1352 posts, [member]!!!! I am so happy for you!!"

 

[kyle]

NO!

 

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by MazKid
contribute as in answer questions and and post usefull stuff.

Ah yes, true......

 

[Talentless]

The universe should kneel before me!

 

[MildMatt]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
I am roughly 6 feet tall and the universe is infinitely large. So, with this known, am I infinitely small?

Small, not infinitely small.

 

[Tom M]

I know several people which I believe are infinitely valuable to the universe as a whole, you however are not among them.

So the answer to your question is yes.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Value has nothing to do with this.

Size is the only thing that matters.

 

[Pako]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
Value has nothing to do with this.

Size is the only thing that matters.

You are like a speck of sand among an endless shore.... Yep, your pretty small in SIZE!

 

[Klostrophobic]

Sweet, that must mean everyone else on earth is as well.

 

[Pako]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
Sweet, that must mean everyone else on earth is as well.

Yes, if your compairing yourself to everyone else on earth.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

As Douglas Adams once wrote:
Population of the Universe = 0.

And here's the reasoning (I'm doing this from memory, so please forgive me if I don't use all the right words in the right order):
All the universe's population is on planets. There are a finite number of planets. Since the universe is infinite size, and there are a finite number of planets, the average number of planets in a given sector of space is finte/infinite = 0. Therefore there are no planets, therefore the population of the universe is zero.

Here's an exercise for you:
Find some sea or a big lake. Imagine you're in a bath in that sea/lake. Picture yourself. In the sea/lake. That's A LOT of water, isn't it!

And that's just one planet.

You are not even one six-billionth of one of the electrons in one of the atoms of one of the molecules ratting around in the lager I am drinking while writing this.

Cosmically speaking we are all as nothing.

 

[Pako]

But don't forget your towel....

 

[CrackHoor]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
No one is answering my questions. I figure contributin ga sense of humor is something, although only a few people can see my sarcasm.

Whatever.

You know, if you just threw some SMILIES in there, we might know that you were trying to be funny...

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by CrackHoor


You know, if you just threw some SMILIES in there, we might know that you were trying to be funny...

Ha ha, ... nice referance to one of his other threads (:


Klos - your sarcasm has the ability to be funny. However, this isn't your crowd. You started off on a very bad foot and now there are few here that will accept anything you try to offer to the group. I think you should regroup and attempt a new approach.

To answer your question ... 'infinitely small' - compared to what? The Universe? You are comparing unlike items - the container to the contained. I suppose you could take the example of an elephant in its cage at the zoo ... is the elephant too large for the cage, or is the cage too large for the elephant. How do they compare ... yadda yadda. I would say that we as a collection of Earthlings fit in the 'known' universe quite well. We as individual beings mean little to the progression of the universe as a whole. You can not say that any one being has the power to modify the universe, my quick reasoning is that everything has a predecessor - without that predecessor they would not have existed to make the change. And if you want to argue "well what came first? hasn't it made the modification to the universe?" ... we would have to continue this discussion over here: http://forums.gtplanet.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4683

Everything is relative. In any relation to 'the Universe', you have no argument because all things are required to make up 'the Universe'. Physically, though, I would say we are 'infinitely smaller than' the Universe - which does not mean we as individual humans are infinitely small.

~LoudMusic

 

[risingson77]

Sounds like someone's just been through the Total Perspective Vortex...

 

[The White Tornado]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic

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Gee, I guess you should consider quiting too.

 

[The White Tornado]

Originally posted by MazKid
to me you're nothing. I'm less than 5 ft tall, and I'm something, most of the people here are somethings, but you seem to be border line between a something, and a nothing.