Scale of the Universe!

[DQuaN]

I thought this was pretty awesome...

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

It's hard to find something that can actually show you the scale of everything.

 

[Tesla]

Amazing.

 

[Crispy]

That's a crazy mind:censored: right there. Just shows how small everything is.

 

[Pezzarinho17]

Great demonstration, really brings everything into perspective! I couldn't help but feel that at the far right I was going to be stung by the worlds most strung out and overextended "Your mum is this fat" joke though!

I was more taken back by the numbers at the lowest scale though, since A level Physics taught me about Quarks so that was the smallest scale I knew about. To see that actually scientists have LONG passed that stage and are now deep at string theory level, how many years until they are broken down further?...

 

[zedextreme8177]

Holy 🤬

Nothing more to say

 

[Robin]

Really nice way of showing it and the music is soothing Reminds me of those documentaries about the sub atomic world that blow your mind. Did you know that nothing actually touches anything else in the universe, there is a force which stops, lets say your cup, touching the table... its technically floating.

Another good way of explaining scale...



Robin.

 

[Pupik]

Mind, blown.

In the scale of the universe, we're quite a self-important little infinitesimal, aren't we?

 

[wfooshee]

The thing that boggles my mind is that you're a quarter of the way up the scale when you get to the electron!

 

[PHCharls]

That's Amazing .

 

[W3H5]

How's this for perspective -

Imagine how small an atom is.

Now consider that one string is the size of the atom compared to the universe.

Oh, it just loaded. Beautiful. Just memorising.

Thanks DQ, my life now has no purpose.

Oh well, someone has to drink the beer in my fridge.

 

[dxm8975]

That reminds me of a gigantic scale of universe, what small entities human beings and every object/terrestrial creatures seen on this planet are - and so are luminaries and stars existing in space.

The universe appears to be constantly expanding its size as time, based on the current gregorian almanac passes if the astoronomical theory explaining the idea of continuous expansion of cosmic space is true, so it's interesting how the outer space will become and look like to us over time.

 

[Watchman]

 

 

[Ibonibo]

Nice

 

[Neal]

Awesome Dunc 👍

Reminded me of this...

 

[Pezzarinho17]

I couldn't help but feel that at the far right I was going to be stung by the worlds most strung out and overextended "Your mum is this fat" joke though!

Awesome Dunc 👍

Reminded me of this...

And there it is!

 

[Minty]

Cool. Found this just in time for me to spend the next several hours at work truly considering how insignificant we all really are when compared to the vastness that is the universe.


Really though, that is awesome.

I feel :censored:ing tiny.

 

[TB]

I feel :censored:ing tiny.

Go read/watch Horton Hears a Who and you'll fee right as rain in no time.

 

[W3H5]

Here's an important point, I feel.

If the area of a circle, Pi, is infinite, as I calculate it to be, shouldn't all area be infinite?

Imaging there isn't an end to the universe, as I believe there not to be. Rap your cranium around that!

 

[mattythedog]

Damn iPod with no Flash. I can't see this obviously wonderful scale of the universe.

 

[Driving Park]

I thought this was the ultimate torture/execution device in the Hitchhiker's Guide books? How am I still alive?

Amazing feat of survival aside, that's really cool. It's like an interactive version of the Eames Powers of Ten movie, expanded to represent the absolute extremes of scientific measurement.

Reminded me of this...

http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/...-gas-giant.jpg

Or the original video, which is even cooler and lacks the your mom joke at the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

Rap your cranium around that!

Eh, I'm not a good rapper...

 

[W3H5]

I thought this was the ultimate torture/execution device in the Hitchhiker's Guide books? How am I still alive?

That would be volgan poetry.

 

[DQuaN]

I'm still waiting for Famine to arrive and explain the inaccuracies in it!

 

[Hun200kmh]

Rap your cranium around that!

Done. Effortlessly. Isn't it amazing?

 

[Luminis]

This is pretty darn awesome!

 

[W3H5]

Well, you know what they say about quantum physics?

If you think you're getting it, you're no where near getting it.

 

[Hun200kmh]

Well, you know what they say about quantum physics?

If you think you're getting it, you're no where near getting it.

Such phrases are as old as mankind, usually referring to things we don't see and hardly try to understand anyway. (offtopic? )

You said something about a beer in the fridge? That interests me more

 

[W3H5]

Such phrases are as old as mankind, usually referring to things we don't see and hardly try to understand anyway. (offtopic? )

You said something about a beer in the fridge? That interests me more

There isn't much left now. It's mostly in my gut.

I dare anyone to say the universe isn't an amazing place though, and with our superior intellect, all the theories that come out about it.

Being very interested in quantum, theoretical and meta physics and also cosmology these thing provide hours of mind bending reading.

I can't do maths to the standard that allows me to understand things like multi-verse theory in full but then again, Einstein had an assistant to do his equations for him.

 

[DQuaN]

Only two things are infinite: The universe and humand stupidity.

And I'm not sure about the uinverse.

 

[AOS-]

Am I the only one whose mind was blown by the scale of the flash presentation?

 

[Dennisch]

Only two things are infinite: The universe and humand stupidity.

And I'm not sure about the uinverse.

Indeed it is.

Back OT:

That animation shows us why we need to break the lightspeed barrier.
Even at the speed of light we are stuck on our blue marble.