[aruanan]

If it took God one week to make the Earth, going by mass it would take him two quintillion years to build this thing -- far longer than science says the universe has existed, and it's kind of fun to have those two the other way around for a change. Though He could always omnipotently cheat and say "Let there be a Sloan Great Wall."

It's sad to see such ignorance of one's own cultural roots on display.

[Twinkie]

Meantime, we’re all standing on a little ball of dirt, mud, rock & minerals, hurtling through space with other balls of stuff hurtling along with us and stuff sometimes hurtling at us; with the threat that some beings from another ball of mud & stuff are circling about our little ball of mud wanting us to take them to our leader. :O/

[TheBigIf]

The first thing that came to my mind in reading the title and the excerpt was the ‘Mirror of the Heavens” theory that claims that most of the great ancient structures we see here on earth were built to mirror the heavens.

Was the Great Wall of China meant to mirror these great walls in the Universe?

Just a random thought and not meant to be taken that seriously.

[sodpoodle]

****the microstructure of empty space could be far too complex for unaided human brains.” — Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, physicist, Cambridge University****

But not for God....You silly Martin;)

[MiltonFriedmanFan]

You arent going to find many scientists who admit they know very little.

[WayneS]

“Just as a fish may be barely aware of the medium in which it lives and swims, so the microstructure of empty space could be far too complex for unaided human brains...

"I wonder where that fish has gone.
You did love it so. You looked after it like a son.
And it went wherever I did go.
Is it in the cupboard?
Yes! Yes! No!…
Wouldn’t you like to know? It was a lovely little fish.
And it went wherever I did go.
It’s behind the sofa!
Where can that fish be?
It is a most elusive fish!
And it went wherever I did go.
Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
A-fish, a-fish, a-fish, a-fishy, ooooh.
Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
That went wherever I did go."

---from the movie "The Meaning of Life"

[LiteKeeper]

Uh...it didn’t take God six days to create the universe, the Bible says He did it in an instant...He used six days to form the Earth, and to fill it. He could have done that in an instant as well, if He had chosen to.

[BwanaNdege]

Didn’t these guys ever read “Horton Hears a Who”?

[wendy1946]

This is what electric/plasmo cosmology predicts; its a big mystery only to those stuck with outdated theories.

[SampleMan]

I wonder if atheists believe in the infinite.

[blueunicorn6]

Our question today comes from a person at Cambridge University. Those French are an inquisitive bunch. ‘What is the largest structure in the universe?’ Well, Bobby, as you know, observation is important in science. The good scientist is always aware of what is going on. Why are you screaming? Oh...I’m sorry....I didn’t see your foot there. Our questioner writes about clusters and vast tracts of empty space. Hmmmm. I was at Denny’s this morning and saw Joy Behar eating Honey-Nut Clusters. And there can’t be anything but empty space between her ears. ‘What is the biggest structure in the universe?’ The answer is...Joy Behar’s big, empty jug of a head. I hope to someday go to Rome and see Cambridge University. Jolly good!

[mikrofon]

Humans are the “Billy Bass” of the Universe....

[dps.inspect]

Hell will be; seeing the height, breadth and depth of creation, seen and unseen, then to see its creator, then to know all your earthly life you denied both.

To be awash in the super reality of God and His creation, having believed these things from a child, will for me, be heaven.

[TexasCajun]

I’m sure there is a universe of Mexicans on the other side who have made their way through, around, above & below and are headed to the Milky Way.

[Dead Corpse]

Recently, cosmologists have estimated that some of these galactic walls may have taken from 80 billion to 100 billion, to 150 billion years to form in a direct challenge to current age estimates of the age of the Universe following the Big Bang.

Lends credence to my theory that the Universe has always existed. It spawns from virtual photons and particle pairs and ends via blackholes that spawn virtual photons and particle pairs through Hawking-type radiation...

It also follows that such masses would lend to my theory that space-time knots and twists. These "walls" would tend to form from the over-lapping gravity gradients of the galactic clusters like troughs and peaks in a bed-sheet tossed on a bed.

Pretty cool stuff.

[Fredgoblu]

As miraculous as our Creation must’ve been, maybe we’re all just specks of dust on the surface of the third electron in a giant fluorine atom, and those walls are nearby carbon nanotubes that some lab chemist “just” cooked up.

[samtheman]

Our known Hubble length universe contains hundreds of millions of galaxies that have clumped together, forming super clusters and a series of massive walls of galaxies separated by vast voids of empty space.

Maybe the "that have clumped together" indicates that the "hundreds of millions of galaxies" indicated in this sentence is a subset of ALL the galaxies in the universe. And maybe the sentence is saying that "hundreds of millions of galaxies" is the total galaxy count in our universe.

It's not clear to me what that "hundreds of millions of galaxies" refers to. All galaxies, or some galaxies.

Probably my fault.

Anyway, the actual number of galaxies:

The most current estimates guess that there are 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the Universe, each of which has hundreds of billions of stars. A recent German supercomputer simulation put that number even higher: 500 billion. In other words, there could be a galaxy out there for every star in the Milky Way.

--www.universetoday.com

[bert]

Trivia test.......

What is the largest man made structure in the continental USA?

[Quix]

It’s always fun when

the RELIGION OF PSEUDO-SCIENCE

discovers some hint of its limitations.