Have you really tried to imagine the pure vastness of our universe?

Yeah. I think about it all the time. I always watch shows about the universe and space and stuff.

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Originally Posted by Demeter

It is wonderful to contemplate. I was watching a show recently about the rings of Saturn - manic superhighways of icerocks rollerderbying their way around the giant planet! And all of that going on behind the dark we see when we look up at the night sky.

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I saw that same show not too long ago! It explained something about how the rings are getting smaller, and one day, they might end up disappearing, or something to that degree.

I was on an airplane (red eye) back to DC from the West coast, and seeing all of the intricate spots of human lights and whatnot, from mid atmosphere (I saw the Perseid shower! Beautiful!" and it was just stunning to see how far my eyes could reach, it was breathtaking.

Yes I have.. but even more enthralling is considering the Nothing between the little balls of stuff we call matter. To consider the nothing is harder by far than considering the vastness of everything .. IMHO

I don't think our minds can totally concieve it.

And I think we can ..Its hard due to us being in the box so to speak but its the nothing that is the 98% of the universe we don't see and I see no reason that its not a view the mind can ponder..

Keep the vids coming melkane =)

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Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Well yeah, the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, but the light emitted from the farthest objects we can see was emitted 13.7 billion years ago so they have effectively traveled 13.7 billion light years.

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I'm confused... how can we say the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, then set lightspeed as the universal speed limit?

i think that the universe aint expanding imagine the ocean it has a tide that flows in and out i think when the big bang and stuff happend there must have been more stuff floating around closer together ? now its just the reverse of it flowing back out i think with time it will reverse again and start coming back in if the universe was expanding as fast as they say for as long as they say would there be any planets in site of earth ?

for me its just one of those things where you just wanna say fuck it, because you know that youll never understand the answer, but im not willing to do that, for some reason part of me always wants to figure it all out. Im sure back in the day people said fuck it and thought it was impossible, but then found out later on it wasnt.

Im currently takinig an astronomy class and there is this one thing my teach said that boggled my mind. He said that eventually humans might be able to create other universes, which to me sounds totally bogus. But he is a totally gnarly dude and on his first week of teaching somone but LSD in his coffee without him knowing and he fucking tripped balls all day...so he has my automatic respect. Also we are one of the few highschools to have a planetarium aand we use that shit alot. I just happen to have first period free and astronomy 2nd so i can come to class well prepared on the days where we go under the dome. :stoned: Sorry for Rambling.

In the old days psychologists used to warn people from pondering the infinite vastness of the the cosmos, it is apparently known to literally drive people to the point of madness.