Anonymous
9/5/2025, 3:25:36 PM
No.16776127
>>16776133
>>16776135
Do we know what the smallest thing is? And the largest? How far away are we from either?
For example, if you were really tiny, and stood in front of a tree, you wouldn't know it's a tree. It would look like a brown, wooden wall that stretches for miles.
So my fear is that we cannot understand what the universe is because of scaling. We might miss the forest for the planets.
Anonymous
9/5/2025, 3:41:05 PM
No.16776133
>>16776127 (OP)
one of the most beautiful descriptions of our known universe is this
>us and our observed universe are like a micro cell of a macro organism
Anonymous
9/5/2025, 4:22:57 PM
No.16776152
>The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness of space. The child: What is beyond space? The father: The galaxy. The child: Beyond the galaxy? The father: Another galaxy. The child: Beyond the other galaxies? The father: No one knows.
>Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.
