The Scale of the Universe

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The Scale of the Universe

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Pincho Paxton
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The scale goes down a long way. Seems too far to me.
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1:1
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Jason wrote:1:1
1:1 with imagination involved. Nobody really knows most of those sizes, or if those things really exist. That's why I said I think the sizes go down too small. I think there's a Black Hole in the middle of an Atom, so that alters the picture quite a lot... I think.
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oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!
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Meh.

The wow factor is solely a product of our anthropomorphism. A mirage generated by our entrenched habit of comparing everything to ourselves.

Religion may be dying, but our anthropomorphism continues to live on unabated.

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David Quinn wrote:Meh.

The wow factor is solely a product of our anthropomorphism. A mirage generated by our entrenched habit of comparing everything to ourselves.

Religion may be dying, but our anthropomorphism continues to live on unabated.

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I thought the wow factor was how much stuff you can fit in an atom... and it's wow.. surely wrong, surely OTT, and surely we would weigh a ton. But anyway.. we are the origin to compare with. You would make life harder to compare thing with an unfamiliar origin.
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It's interesting, but not Wow, because it is what it is (a = a) , it could not be any other way.
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prince wrote:It's interesting, but not Wow, because it is what it is (a = a) , it could not be any other way.
It's not a = a because it's wrong. It's more like a = z.
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