Is all about the size...

[Akira AC]

This is pretty damn cool:

http://htwins.net/scale2/

(Not spam, as much as it looks like)

 

[AlexGTV]

Brilliant!

It's interesting to note how the human body sits close to the middle of scales.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Nothing here.

 

[dhandeh]

Mind. Boggled.

 

[lbsf1]

Mind = blown.

I'm used to seeing things that say how large things are and some that say how small things are, however putting them together makes the effect alot more powerful. Its amazing how complex we are, yet how insignificant that complexity is relative to everything else in the universe (not even mentioning the multiverse theory.)

This is why I think it is sad not to be investing in space exploration, there is so much out there and we just sit there ignoring it most of the time. And one day all life will cease to exist as all heat dissipates out leaving an average temperature close to absolute zero. And then for eternity nothing will ever happen and eventually the time when life existed will be so small that it is insignificant in itself. So we need to use our time wisely and learn as much as we can, as our unique human faculty is our search for knowledge and to push the limits (have you ever seen a bird try to see how high/fast it can fly just for the hell of it?)

End of amazement.


EDIT: Have you seen minecraft world in there about 2/3's of the way along.

 

[Wiegert]

Have you seen minecraft world in there about 2/3's of the way along.

Next to Neptune? Yeah, it's bloody massive.


And even though I know there are more than 7 Billion of us on the planet, it amazes me that the total human height would be so large on that scale.

 

[Doth1s]

So, I'm hanging out by the Virgo Supercluster right now. I can't even begin to fathom that type of distance.

 

[DQuaN]

Minecraft world WTF?

That would totally crash my server!

 

[Slash]

Fully updated Adobe Flash.


"You need the lastest version of flash player."


Got it nevermind. Now, what do you all think lies beyond the observable universe?

 

[Dennisch]

More universe.

 

[Techy]

^ Yep. I'd imagine more galaxy clusters and more dark matter.

 

[Dennisch]

Btw. I really like the Russels teapot at the begin.

 

[Slash]

Quite possibly. I always had a firm belief when younger (I don't believe this now) that outside the universe was just white nothing with black spots that would kill you upon touching them lol. Now I don't know what to beleive.

 

[AMCNUT]

Wow - that's awesome. Make me feel so insignificant compared to all the stuff that's out there!

I was most fascinated by the observable vs. actual universe slide, personally. So, anyone care to hazard a guess as to what happens when the size of the observable universe equals the actual universe size? Isn't the universe supposed to start shrinking or something?

 

[Antonisbob]

Mind = Blown. That's insane.

 

[Slash]

Wow - that's awesome. Make me feel so insignificant compared to all the stuff that's out there!

I was most fascinated by the observable vs. actual universe slide, personally. So, anyone care to hazard a guess as to what happens when the size of the observable universe equals the actual universe size? Isn't the universe supposed to start shrinking or something?

Then again, what if the universe doesn't have a size?

 

[AMCNUT]

Then again, what if the universe doesn't have a size?

I'm no physicist, but doesn't it sort have to have some sort of size? It's matter isn't it? It's possible but I always assumed the universe was 'solid' in that sense...

 

[Solid Lifters]

Now I see it. That's great stuff, right there.

 

[Slash]

I'm no physicist, but doesn't it sort have to have some sort of size? It's matter isn't it? It's possible but I always assumed the universe was 'solid' in that sense...

It could have size, but then again we don't know so who's to say. You make a good point. I always thought it's just there, just open space.

 

[Dennisch]

Then again, what if the universe doesn't have a size?

Let's not go to far in that kind of thinking.

But think of it as this :

We can see 13.7 billion lightyears away. Now imagine yourself standing on a planet orbiting a star 13.7 billion lightyears away from the Earth. You can see another 13.7 billion lightyear in every direction. And so on.

 

[Jubby]

Thank you OP for posting this.

 

[Techy]

Then again, what if the universe doesn't have a size?

Well, the Universe is constantly expanding.

 

[TopGearFTW]

Ah I remember something similar to this from a few years ago, given that this is called "Scale of the Universe 2" I shall assume it's a more in-depth revision of the first one.

After scrolling through it all, I realise there's a "click to learn more" feature. Looks like I'm going through it again.

Damn the universe is scary. Stuff like the Great Attractor and whatnot. Something about not knowing things is just off-putting, I think.

It's also weird to think the universe is expanding at an exponentially quicker rate, rather than slowing down as would be expected.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.
To explain — since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.
The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.
Trin Tragula — for that was his name — was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.
"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.
And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.
And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

I think this belongs here.

 

[Slash]

Well, the Universe is constantly expanding.

So we think. We could be wrong. Again we don't really know. That is when religion and non religion comes into play.

 

[Dennisch]

So we think. We could be wrong. Again we don't really know. That is when religion and non religion comes into play.

We know. Go look it up. We know.

 

[Techy]

For now, let's just stay within our Observable boundaries and worry more about what's actually near us in terms of cosmological distance.


I like how the author described each object. Some of them are actually comical to read

 

[otakukid96]

Pretty cool.

 

[Azuremen]

So we think. We could be wrong. Again we don't really know. That is when religion and non religion comes into play.

There is a considerable amount of evidence to indicate it is expanding.

 

[GregTheStig]

This is just awesome. It's mind-blowing stuff like this that made science my favorite class as a kid and still grabs my attention today. Thanks for sharing 👍

Also, I was almost expecting to see "your mom" when I scaled all the way out, and possibly some reproductive organ when I zoomed all the way in. Thanks for ruining me, internet.

Damn the universe is scary. Stuff like the Great Attractor and whatnot. Something about not knowing things is just off-putting, I think.

I'm with you on this. I love following the latest updates from the scientific community so hopefully I don't feel so lost and confused lol. By the way, I totally read your comment in Rainbow Dash's voice... great...