Scale of the Universe

[Vivek]

This is simply amazing. Check out: http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

It is really mind-boggling to realize how small and insignificant we are when considering the WHOLE picture.

[Morning Dew]

Nice one Vivek nice one

[Vivek]

[Crystal Palace]

Wow! 

[dragoneye]

I get humbled when I have to use yoctometers

Really though, I have been emotionally challenged the last few days. All I had to do is start with Humans on the scale and take it out to "The Approximate Size of the Universe." My issues disappeared!

Work now, metta,
DE

P.S. Thanks C.P.

[Matthew]

Quite cool however, as a Mathematician by training, the mathematical error on the opening image is unforgivable ... my mistake.

[Jeeprs]

well we are physically a mere speck, but don't forget, we make these measurements!  We realize the meaning of the scope of the universe: real-ize, make real. So those who say 'well we're only blips' don't appreciate this amazing fact.

[Matthew]

.... and don't forget "we are all made of stars" - quite literally - the heavy elements that are essential to the complexity of life are formed in one place and one place only ... the nuclear reactors that are each and every star shining in the sky ...

Moby - We Are All Made Of Stars

"Growing in numbers
Growing in speed
Can't fight the future
Can't fight what I see

People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
'Cause we are all made of stars

Efforts of lovers
Left in my mind
I sing in the reaches
We'll see what we find

People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
'Cause we are all made of stars

People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
'Cause we are all made of stars

Slow slow slow, come come
Someone come come come
Even love is goin' 'round
You can't ignore what is goin' 'round

Slowly rebuilding
I feel it in me
Growing in numbers
Growing in peace

People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
'Cause we are all made of stars

People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
'Cause we are all made of stars

People they come together
(People they come together)
People they fall apart
(People they fall apart)
No one can stop us now
(No one can stop us now)
'Cause we are all made of stars
(We are all made of stars)

We are all made of stars
People they come together
We are all made of stars
(People they fall apart)
We are all made of stars
(No one can stop us now)
'Cause we are all made of stars
(We are all made of stars)"

Moby

[Jeeprs]

We are stardust
We are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we have to get ourselves
Back to the Garden....

Joni Mitchell, Woodstock, performed by Crosby Stills Nash & Young

hippie metaphysics at its best

[Masauwu]

Amazing link, puts things in perspective. Tiny insignificant dots trying to become aware and awake, what a marvel of the universe.

I always had an affinity for Carl Sagan`s words on this subject:

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

Some people even made these ideas and others into songs:

Symphony of Science - 'We Are All Connected' (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)

(More of the same on http://www.symphonyofscience.com/)

[Andrew]

Sweet thread, this one should be pinned somewhere!

[Vivek]

Thanks, guys. Good point on "real-ize", Jeeprs.

[DZA]

Hi everyone

Take a look at http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread740902/pg1, a great visual display of this area, its all about Hubble Deep Space

[Morning Dew]

Thanks for posting this DZA
It makes the Ego feel like shit (small)
LoL

Be well

[dragoneye]

When I was a very young child I had a recurring dream that became quite familiar to me.
I was floating in an abstract space and the only object in that space that I was aware of was an unimaginably gigantic surface or plane; like being in space next to the Milky Way... probably something even larger... maybe an Infinite presence.
The experience was one of the ultimate contrast. I was no more than a pin point... maybe just an Atom.
All that I could fathom of this was the sensation of my smallness in relation to all that mass.
When we contemplate our reality within a more measurable context like we are, it leaves me to wonder at, among other things, how I could have had the impetus and the reference for an idea that seems to actually be more like our true reality.
There was no outside influence that I am aware of. I feel like it was an intuitive dream.
Anyway, sorry to digress
Thanks to all for these great posts.
With metta,
DE

[thomas]

I find it hard to comprehend on this level.. I guess everyone does.

 Its much easier for me to look at an old tree. Find an old Yew in a church grave yard. Many of the big ones will have been there before the church was even built.. in fact before christianity even existed, celtic and pagan rituals may well have taken place under them.. some estimated at 4-5000 yrs old. At this point beech trees hadn't even reached the UK. 10,000 yrs before that we were in an Ice age....

[Masauwu]

We realize the meaning of the scope of the universe: real-ize, make real.

Some random parallels:
There is no sound without an observer capable of translating the air pressure wave into sound (skipping the philosophical level to give conventional science a chair at the table). There is no light without an observer capable of translating certain wavelengths of electromagnetical radiation into light. There is no day or night, liquid or solid, land or sky...

God created the heaven and the earth. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
(Book of Genesis)

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
(Dhammapada)

Just a random thought, i don`t have a point.