i could complicate this post, if at all i wanted to sound an esoteric (essentially a stupid), as the universe is a lot complicated inherently.....to start with, some 'estimated' facts about the universe,
-it all started with the big bang some 13.73 billion years ago; where the universe was just a tiny point of 'infinite' density
-it is approximately 93 billion light years across, meaning if you are traveling at speed of light from one edge of universe; then cutting right through its centre, it would take you these many years to reach the diagonally opposite edge
-observable universe cotains more than 80 billion galaxies
-it contains mind blowing 30 to 70 billion trillion stars
-total mass of all stars in observable universe is 30 followed by 52 zeros kgs
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astro-physicists have pounded their heads over and over again in different fashions over the ages to answer more astounding questions than facts above.....i am not the one but still i can't help pounding mine,
1-would most of the distant distant objects we see today be still existing 'now'? e.g. spectacular sombrero galaxy which is some 30 million light years from us; it's very much possible they have been destroyed due to some cataclysmic event bigger than big bang. how would we know about such event/s if we go extinct before 30 million years from now?
2-most distant object nasa has seen so far in our sky is a quasar which is 10 billion light years away from us. why can't we see beyond that - are we the only and more importantly 'first' universe in the known space of 13 billion light years?
3-there must be no tangible boundary to the space- because nothing could qualify as a boundary for space; as it fails simple test 'what is beyond that boundary?'. i am mesmerised by this thought.....imagine a billion tiny one cell microscopic bacteria in the deepest part of our ocean living on ocean floor; square mile of water would be their known universe; but that square mile of water is again tiny compared to size of oceans; oceans themselves are dwarfed by mass of the earth; so and so forth. i always think.....perhaps our universe is like just one tiny microscopic bacterium from a billion in our example, which has its own perceived 'reality' and which in fact is constituent of much bigger and altogether differnt type of system having differnt set of perceived realities. example is-we can't live underwater in utter dark!! .....it is quite a horrifying thought that we may well just be a lost, forgotten, undiscovered, unperceived part of much much much bigger reality; so much so that, since it's infinite.....we are close to non-existing!! .....the universe is close to non-existing.
-it all started with the big bang some 13.73 billion years ago; where the universe was just a tiny point of 'infinite' density
-it is approximately 93 billion light years across, meaning if you are traveling at speed of light from one edge of universe; then cutting right through its centre, it would take you these many years to reach the diagonally opposite edge
-observable universe cotains more than 80 billion galaxies
-it contains mind blowing 30 to 70 billion trillion stars
-total mass of all stars in observable universe is 30 followed by 52 zeros kgs
.....
astro-physicists have pounded their heads over and over again in different fashions over the ages to answer more astounding questions than facts above.....i am not the one but still i can't help pounding mine,
1-would most of the distant distant objects we see today be still existing 'now'? e.g. spectacular sombrero galaxy which is some 30 million light years from us; it's very much possible they have been destroyed due to some cataclysmic event bigger than big bang. how would we know about such event/s if we go extinct before 30 million years from now?
2-most distant object nasa has seen so far in our sky is a quasar which is 10 billion light years away from us. why can't we see beyond that - are we the only and more importantly 'first' universe in the known space of 13 billion light years?
3-there must be no tangible boundary to the space- because nothing could qualify as a boundary for space; as it fails simple test 'what is beyond that boundary?'. i am mesmerised by this thought.....imagine a billion tiny one cell microscopic bacteria in the deepest part of our ocean living on ocean floor; square mile of water would be their known universe; but that square mile of water is again tiny compared to size of oceans; oceans themselves are dwarfed by mass of the earth; so and so forth. i always think.....perhaps our universe is like just one tiny microscopic bacterium from a billion in our example, which has its own perceived 'reality' and which in fact is constituent of much bigger and altogether differnt type of system having differnt set of perceived realities. example is-we can't live underwater in utter dark!! .....it is quite a horrifying thought that we may well just be a lost, forgotten, undiscovered, unperceived part of much much much bigger reality; so much so that, since it's infinite.....we are close to non-existing!! .....the universe is close to non-existing.
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