What is the best way to comprehend and/or experience the massive scale of the universe?Every time I happen to think about it, it just doesn't click.
>>16813699Humanity has reached immortality and you get a spot in a space ship. This spaceship is going from Earth to IC1101, a very big galaxy. The speed of the ship is almost the speed of light, you could be traveling from the Earth to the Moon in a little bit more than a second.Of course during the travel you have to do work on the spaceship, but they only pay you one dollar per year. One whole year of work will get you one single dollar.Well when you get to your destination you will be a billionaire.
>>16813699Use a log scale.
>>16813699https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRwpJnHN6FEFor me it's this. The part when you're zooming out and the lights flying by turn from planets to stars to galaxies to galactic clusters, and you need to move a millions of times the speed of light just to notice the movement. Looking at the universe like this fills me with a primal fear
You take one teaspoon of water, and start taking individual water molecules out and put them in a straight line in a row, always having one mile of distance between two adjacent molecules. The galaxy in picrelated it so far away that you would run out of water before your row of water molecules would reach it.Take the Milky Way galaxy and scale it down to the size of USA. In this scal earth is so small that you can't even see it.
>>16813699the further objects are from earth, the faster they recede.The observable universe is so big that 97% of it is receding from us at faster than light speed.
>>16813744holy shit wtf.this is definitely a game/simulation
>>16813906there is no way that light speed is the limit for information. it wouldn't make sense, we are too far apart
>>16813915A photon doesn't experience time. They are all 0 seconds old
>>16813699you can't the same way you cant comprahend the scale of atoms and their nucleihuman brain just loses sense of scale after couple steps of comparsions
>>16816058>doesnt experience time>somehow moves through space just fineyou tried
>>16813711Seems like you failed special relativity.>The speed of the ship is almost the speed of lightCool, so the distance between Earth and IC1101 length contracts to an arbitrarily small value.Ergo you make a billion dollars in one hour!
>>16813699it's infinitework on imagining itit may even scare youbut you must not get discouraged
>>16816174From a photon's perspective, it is indeed timeless.
>>16813699We don't know the scale of the universe so you can't comprehend it.
image galaxy is a 1 inch long tiny stone on a football field's 50 yard line... the end zones are roughly the 'ends' of the 'known' universe... Earth the size of an atom on 1 inch long tiny stone.... give or take a few inches, yards, etc.... These ridiculous sizes are probably designed this way for optimizing the simulation we exist in.
>>16813699-One million seconds is 11.5 days-One billion seconds is 11,500 days (31.5 years)
>>16813909thanks sherlock
>>16813915quantum is the way
