Thread: Our significance in the universe

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw

This one is good too.

Originally Posted by Alextanium

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw

This one is good too.

Wow, that is an excellent video. It really explains what those images mean. I think such presentations really put ideas like Noah's Ark into perspective.

I think such presentations really put ideas like Noah's Ark into perspective.

What does Noah's Ark have to do with it.

I've seen that second video. Really cool

You know what's even more astounding. The more you look out to the largeness of the universe the more you are looking into a microscope.






Our sun has billions of particles. The galaxies of the universe is just one particle.

Originally Posted by Minervas Phoenix

What does Noah's Ark have to do with it.

Watch the video and think about Noah's Ark. You will see what I mean.

Yeah I did watch it. That's why I posted that.

Originally Posted by Minervas Phoenix

Yeah I did watch it. That's why I posted that.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

and think about Noah's Ark. You will see what I mean.

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I've been thinking more and more about this for a few years, and watching a lot of the new programming on NatGeo and the Science channel. I think I'm finally starting to really wrap my brain around how big the universe really is.

Then there is the possibility that our universe is only one of many!

The more I think, the smaller I get...

The more I think, the smaller I get...

The more you think. The wiser and greater you should become. But here you are saying the more you think the less significant and smaller you feel. While such a thing can be humbling. You must be thinking in a foolish manner to some degree otherwise you would not feel like you are insignificant compared to what you are a part of. If you are really as small as you perceive. Then how small are those things which are infinitely below you. Even as there are things too great and big to behold compared to yourself. There are those things which are too small and insignificant to perceive in comparison to yourself.

Originally Posted by Minervas Phoenix

The more you think. The wiser and greater you should become. But here you are saying the more you think the less significant and smaller you feel. While such a thing can be humbling. You must be thinking in a foolish manner to some degree otherwise you would not feel like you are insignificant compared to what you are a part of. If you are really as small as you perceive. Then how small are those things which are infinitely below you also?

Er... you took that statement much too seriously. I used it only as a cute way to summarize what I had already said. By "smaller" I mean only my physical body in relation to how large I perceive the universe to be.

Ok my bad. I assumed you were thinking in a less shallow way. You're too quick to think about how big the universe is, while ignoring the photos comparing it to the CERN particles. That is unbalanced thinking. That's why you felt small.

Originally Posted by Minervas Phoenix

Ok my bad. I assumed you were thinking in a less shallow way. You're too quick to think about how big the universe is, while ignoring the photos comparing it to the CERN particles. That is unbalanced thinking. That's why you felt small.

Well true... I do also spend a lot of time thinking about the smallest things we know about. During these times I might well say "the more I think, the bigger I get."

Either way, it was just an attempt at some poetic levity.

So was my response. It added to the beauty of it. And you past the test. No hostile response saying I'm a troll. Good sign.

Originally Posted by Minervas Phoenix

No hostile response saying I'm a troll.

Not yet, anyway.

Not a bad video. Isn't it pretty amazing that the Milky Way is the only Galaxy that harbors life chemistry.

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Not a bad video. Isn't it pretty amazing that the Milky Way is the only Galaxy that harbors life chemistry.

Tell me about your trip through the entire universe... can you recommend it?

Originally Posted by Korittke

Tell me about your trip through the entire universe... can you recommend it?

Sure no problem it's called "Astrophysics" Shhhhh... Rumor has it that if you study a little bit of it, you may actually learn something.

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Sure no problem it's called "Astrophysics" Shhhhh... Rumor has it that if you study a little bit of it, you may actually learn something.

Such as that it is now a scientific fact that the Earth is the only planet in the universe capable of carrying life?

Wow, you learn something new every day...

Originally Posted by Korittke

Such as that it is now a scientific fact that the Earth is the only planet in the universe capable of carrying life?

Wow, you learn something new every day...

Not a scientific fact but there happens to be an abundance of evidence that makes it pretty clear. I wouldn't be so quick to knock it if I were you unless you have something that goes against the evidence that can possibly prove otherwise.

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Not a scientific fact but there happens to be an abundance of evidence that makes it pretty clear. I wouldn't be so quick to knock it if I were you unless you have something that goes against the evidence that can possibly prove otherwise.

I have no idea what you're talking about...

Originally Posted by Korittke

I have no idea what you're talking about...

If you state innuendo with a scientific vocabulary, it's fact, apparently.

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Not a bad video. Isn't it pretty amazing that the Milky Way is the only Galaxy that harbors life chemistry.

Source please.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Source please.

Source? What for? You're not going to take my word for it?

Are my words not as good as gold around here?