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Putting things into perspective.
« on: November 17, 2011, 12:48:12 PM »
Woke up this morning feeling grumpy about only getting 5 hours of sleep, having too much to do at work, waiting for the next crisis with my family...

Then I found this.

http://htwins.net/scale/

Hits home just how huge & insignificant the day to day problems really are.
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Re: Putting things into perspective.
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2011, 02:32:15 PM »
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is."
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Re: Putting things into perspective.
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2011, 02:39:02 PM »
Quote from: Ron on November 17, 2011, 02:32:15 PM
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is."

Yes... and it's once again even bigger than that.

I wonder how human psychology and history would be if somehow the nominal eye separation in the human skull were enough to be the equivalent of one diameter of the Solar System so depth perception actually worked when staring up into the sky...
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Re: Putting things into perspective.
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2011, 04:34:37 PM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on November 17, 2011, 02:39:02 PM
Yes... and it's once again even bigger than that.

I wonder how human psychology and history would be if somehow the nominal eye separation in the human skull were enough to be the equivalent of one diameter of the Solar System so depth perception actually worked when staring up into the sky...

Get a pair of cameras with a space of a soccer field between them...
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Re: Putting things into perspective.
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2011, 06:58:26 PM »
Quote from: Sindawe on November 17, 2011, 12:48:12 PM
Woke up this morning feeling grumpy about only getting 5 hours of sleep, having too much to do at work, waiting for the next crisis with my family...

Then I found this.

http://htwins.net/scale/

Hits home just how huge & insignificant the day to day problems really are.

Pretty neat. I'm trying to wrap my brain around the import of this:

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The universe is 14,000,000,000 years old. If something were more than 14,000,000,000 light-years away, it would take more than 14,000,000,000 years to reach us, which is more time than the universe has existed.
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Re: Putting things into perspective.
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2011, 07:28:45 AM »
An elementery question that probably shows how little I know:  If we can't see past 14 billion light years because the light hasn't reached here yet, does't that mean the univerese expanded at a speed greater than the speed of light?
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Re: Putting things into perspective.
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2011, 08:11:18 AM »
Quote from: griz on November 18, 2011, 07:28:45 AM
An elementery question that probably shows how little I know:  If we can't see past 14 billion light years because the light hasn't reached here yet, does't that mean the univerese expanded at a speed greater than the speed of light?
Actually, if we see something 14 billion light years away, that means that 14 billion years ago, it was already that far away. Even at the speed of light, it would have taken that long to get that far away, so the age of the universe ought to be twice that.

But cosmologists say, based on dating stars and such, that it isn't . . . so they theorize a period of "inflation" right after the Big Bang during which the universe expanded at superluminal velocity . . . but since space itself was expanding, it really wasn't faster than light at all . . .
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