Is the universe....quite big or quite small....
Discussion
HoHoHo said:
Just how big is it and how small are we?
Is it growing, shrinking or is it a fixed size?
What's it all about.....are we simply an atom in a giants chair?
Sitting here I have no idea myself other than its a mind blowing question!
It's really big, really really big. We're really small.Is it growing, shrinking or is it a fixed size?
What's it all about.....are we simply an atom in a giants chair?
Sitting here I have no idea myself other than its a mind blowing question!
It's expanding, and accelerating.
No.
Enjoy
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick
But out by us it's just 3,000 light years wide
We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point,
We go round every 200 million years
And our Galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding Universe
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
12 million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely it is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick
But out by us it's just 3,000 light years wide
We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point,
We go round every 200 million years
And our Galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding Universe
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
12 million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely it is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Simpo Two said:
Where's that flash animation link jobbie?
Is this the one?http://htwins.net/scale2/
Very good it is and quite eye-opening.
scorp said:
Einion Yrth said:
I'm probably out of step here, but there is something, that I can't quite put my finger on, about that individual that makes me want to punch him, very hard, repeatedly.
Smug, condescending and has a s
t haircut. Can't stand him.Young, brainy, good-looking.
Yeah, I hate him too.
CommanderJameson said:
scorp said:
Einion Yrth said:
I'm probably out of step here, but there is something, that I can't quite put my finger on, about that individual that makes me want to punch him, very hard, repeatedly.
Smug, condescending and has a st haircut. Can't stand him.Young, brainy, good-looking.
Yeah, I hate him too.
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