Big Universe is Big

[AFK]

See?

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That's a cool visual.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

It's also got shit that's very very small.... wow.....

[Jasper]

Very cool!  I've always been intrigued at how we seem to be at the very middle of these things.   

[Persona Facade]

My favorite part: the rubik's cube.

[Golden Applesauce]

Very cool!  I've always been intrigued at how we seem to be at the very middle of these things.   

We are in the middle of everything, unless the universe as a whole is rotating.

[The Johnny]

Very cool!  I've always been intrigued at how we seem to be at the very middle of these things.   

We are in the middle of everything, unless the universe as a whole is rotating.

In terms of scale, we are about in the middle of sizes, unlesss the scroll bar they made is weird like that.

[frogsicle]

maybe our knowledge of what is out there is just centered on our own size category.

[Triple Zero]

indeed. Science is looking both up and down, and apparently both the large-scale and the small-scale limits push at their orders of magnitude at a similar pace. Because the scales are logarithmic and the progress isn't, this is probably not nearly as unlikely as it seems. Much less unlikely than us just happening to exist right in the middle of scales of magnitude taken as absolute.

In fact, there is nothing we can say about it because we don't know if the smallest scale we currently know is in fact the smallest scale there is. Same about the largest scales. So the fact that we're right in the middle says a lot more about the limits of scientific progress than about the actual scale structure of the universe.

[Telarus]

indeed. Science is looking both up and down, and apparently both the large-scale and the small-scale limits push at their orders of magnitude at a similar pace. Because the scales are logarithmic and the progress isn't, this is probably not nearly as unlikely as it seems. Much less unlikely than us just happening to exist right in the middle of scales of magnitude taken as absolute.

In fact, there is nothing we can say about it because we don't know if the smallest scale we currently know is in fact the smallest scale there is. Same about the largest scales. So the fact that we're right in the middle says a lot more about the limits of scientific progress than about the actual scale structure of the universe.

This is what I think about "God".

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

indeed. Science is looking both up and down, and apparently both the large-scale and the small-scale limits push at their orders of magnitude at a similar pace. Because the scales are logarithmic and the progress isn't, this is probably not nearly as unlikely as it seems. Much less unlikely than us just happening to exist right in the middle of scales of magnitude taken as absolute.

In fact, there is nothing we can say about it because we don't know if the smallest scale we currently know is in fact the smallest scale there is. Same about the largest scales. So the fact that we're right in the middle says a lot more about the limits of scientific progress than about the actual scale structure of the universe.

Exactly.  We're in the middle of the scale because we made the scale.  I think that any intelligent Arcturus or HIV sized beings capable of coming up with their own scale would find themselves in the middle theirs as well.

It's the same reason why the map on the wall in my school looked like this,


instead of this.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

See?

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

i shared this on facebook for awesomeness

[Jasper]

I take it back, in terms of meters we're about 9 orders of magnitude larger than the very center of what we've observed.  Transistor gates and the like are closer to the middle of the logarithmic scales between the size of the universe and strings.

Right?  That's what I'm seeing.

[Rumckle]

SNIP

It's the same reason why the map on the wall in my school looked like this,


instead of this.

Yeah, but the map on my school wall never looked like the bottom one.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

SNIP

It's the same reason why the map on the wall in my school looked like this,


instead of this.

Yeah, but the map on my school wall never looked like the bottom one.

That's because your convict ancestors were also from the Northern Hemisphere.