Scale of the Universe!

[PeterJB]

You could do a Solar System tour in a few days, but other than that there is nowhere else you can go practically.

 

[Driving Park]

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

And I'm not sure about the uinverse.

Okay, Einstein.

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

Nope. Although having seen both the original Eames Powers of Ten and the redone version narrated by Morgan Freeman, it was a bit less mind blowing than it would have been if I hadn't seen them.

That would be volgan poetry.

Nahhh, that's the third worst.

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

 

[35mm]

Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing this. 👍

 

[DG_Silva]

That would be volgan poetry.

Nahhh, that's the third worst.

Vogon poetry is the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent, of his poem, Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning, four of his audience members died of internal hemorrhaging, and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council, survived by gnawing one of his own legs off... The very worst poetry in the universe died along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex... in the destruction of the planet Earth.

Hope that clears that up...

 

[turboash78]

It's great how lots of those drawings scream of MS Paint

 

[Mike Rotch]

And in terms of where out little friends Voyager I and Voyager II are:

Still pretty much nowhere in relation to our neighbours...

 

[terminator363]

That's deep

 

[Dennisch]

How long would it take Voyager to reach the Oort cloud?

Eh. According to Wiki, the Oort cloud is roughly 50.000 AU (or nearly a lightyear) away.
And Voyager 1 is at a distance of 118 AU.

And the light year wiki page : 63.241 AU is a light year.

I'm confused now.

Edit!

I get it, I got the distance of Voyager wrong.


It would take Voyager roughly 14.000 years.

 

[PeterJB]

And in terms of where out little friends Voyager I and Voyager II are:

Still pretty much nowhere in relation to our neighbours...

That doesn't actually show the height they've gained as well. Voyager 1 has gone that equivalent distance 'up' too and Voyager 2 that equivalent distance 'down'.

 

[G.T.Ace]

Thanks for sharing the link, when you see things like that, you realize how insignificant we are.

 

[Dennisch]

We are all specks on a speck in a speck in a tiny corner of the universe.

 

[Moglet]

That scale is inaccurate; my microwave is much bigger than that.

 

[Villain]

Neat.

 

[Spacegoat]

My mind has just been blown, amazing.

 

[Touring Mars]

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.

👍 Nice find, an excellent way to visualise the vast scale differences...

There's an interesting little comment at the (big) end which says that 'we're probably not in the centre of the universe'... while it's almost certainly true, it's a bit misleading because there is most likely no centre of the universe in the first place... but strangely, it does look exactly like we are at the centre - although this should be the case no matter where in the universe we were looking out from... this 'centre of everything' perspective might also (partially) explain why it is that we are roughly in the middle of this scale... as Richard Dawkins says in this video 'Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms...'

 

[homeforsummer]

I think what that website is describing can, unlike many other things, be accurately described as "epic". In the true sense of the word.

Neat.

 

[axletramp]

Why does it need to be so big? I mean, most of it's not being used and I'm sure we could use it for something better... perhaps storage. 💡

 

[Blackbird.]

Scale of the universe...







Is over 9000!!!

Sorry guys..*scurries away*

 

[TheCracker]

Why does it need to be so big? I mean, most of it's not being used and I'm sure we could use it for something better... perhaps storage. 💡

How do you think online 'cloud' storage works?

 

[axletramp]

How do you think online 'cloud' storage works?

Wow, really? If only upload speeds were better...

 

[TheCracker]

Wow, really? If only upload speeds were better...

To be fair, like the Scale of the Universe clearly shows, it's a pretty big place. It will take a while to send and receive data over those distances - even with our recently discovered speed-of-light v1.1.

 

[Grayfox]

Neat.

Also my mind bluescreened with a calculation overflow

 

[homeforsummer]

I'm just attempting to decide whether the extremes of small boggle my mind more than the extremes of big. I don't know much about particle physics but I wasn't aware of subatomic particles smaller than quarks (and to be fair, wasn't aware that neutrinos were smaller than quarks either), so given how many magnitudes smaller a planck length is, that's fairly mind-blowing.

Obviously things measured in billions of light years are phenomenally large, but they're also significantly more observable for the average joe, even if they're incomprehensible to most people.

 

[burgermaster]

Inception taken to a whole new level.

 

[Tesla]

And just to add to the general mindblowing content in this thread :

 

[axletramp]

^ That's pretty cool. 👍

However, I believe you're all wrong. We actually live on the inside surface of a sphere and what we see when looking up is in fact a sky of increasingly dense matter giving the illusion of extreme distance. Our perceptions of what is curving one way is altered by our brain to seen a curve in the opposite direction. Ultimately at the centre of the sphere is a worm hole of infinitely dense matter!

If we want to explore real space, then we need to dig down towards our planet's perceived core. We would in fact eventually break out onto the outer surface of our globe and explore the reality of inner space...



... I also eat flies when I'm alone in my cell.

 

[W3H5]

Going along your lines AT, I've always wondered if the Universe is just a fabricated perception of what is outside our minds in view of our eyes, where as the real 'Universe' lies in the only place I can confirm to be limitless - the human mind.

I'm a big fan of physics of all kinds but I tend to get caught out some times because my mind spouts random thought trains that are completely nonsensical. Plus philosophy and science don't always see eye to eye and I'm more on the side of philosophy.

 

[axletramp]

Going along your lines AT

Bad idea!

However, there is the possibility that the universe and the recognised laws of physics that govern it are only as real as our senses perceive them to be.

 

[W3H5]

Is it not the case that nothing really exists outside of our empirical senses? Everything we know comes from those senses. A unicorn is just a horse with a horn after all.

There is only one thing I can think of that excludes this and that really would be going off topic.

 

[axletramp]

Yep, this is getting a bit metaphysical for this thread.