Oh wow that was wild! “This is the Universe...It’s really REALLY big!” LOL! I like when he says “..the visible universe” meaning there’s more we haven’t seen yet. I think that’s because its light hasn’t reached us yet which I believe is one of the pieces of evidence they use for the big bang. If the universe always existed, then the light from every star in the universe would have hit us by now, at least those stars that didn’t form too recently, and it would light up the sky like day. But there are stars that are so far out there that even though the universe is 13 billion years old the light from those stars still hasn’t reached us yet. How freakin’ insane it that? Light travels at 186,000 miles per second and 13 billion years still ain’t long enough for that light to reach us which is mind blowing to me how insanely vast it is.
It hurts my brain GJMY. It really, REALLY hurts my brain. But like how sometimes pressing on owie can be kinda pleasurable, I like “thinking” about it. :)
“... I think that’s because its light hasn’t reached us yet”
Actually, since only 5% of our known Universe is visible, being that the other 95% is Dark Matter/Dark Energy, that is the reference as to why we cannot ‘see it’. As of yet anyway.
and if I may use this to soapbox: Blame your high school chemistry/physics teachers who state unequivocally that ‘everything’ in the Universe is made up of parts of the Periodic Table.
As a scientist, physicist by training, TRUE science has as it’s cornerstone this fact, “We only know what we know now” meaning, anyone dead-set on a particular belief MAY live long enuf to experience a ‘shift’ in perception.
Examples are endless. Earth is the center of the Universe, our Sun revolves around the Earth, etc. Currently it is the Anthropologic Global Warming Nazi’s belief system that is giving you electric cars, solar panels in the desert frying birds in the sky and windmills slicing and dicing up eagles and other protected birds as I type.
Scientific wannabees. They think their PHD makes them ‘smart’... they know ‘too much’. They forget the scientific basics like, Energy cannot be created or destroyed. And they go on believing that electric cars save the planet. Hell, they cannot ‘save’ their own lawn.
Being a good steward of world is NOT the same as ‘saving the planet’. The latter type needs medication before and after arrogance arrestment and the former live in the real world.