[blam]

At a recent neighborhood card game, in a discussion about the budget and how much is a trillion, a friend pointed out that a trillion seconds is 32,000 years, as a comparison, a billion is only 32 years.

I was awe struck with the size of a trillion explained this way.

Then, a while later, I read this article about this quasar being 63 trillion times brighter than the sun (63 trillion!!).......it is just incomprehensible.

In God's plan, we are so insignificant.

[P.O.E.]

By Motorola

[redroller]

Try doing a few google searches on “Halton Arp”. This stuff has all been debunked, that is, blackholes, the “big bang”, and the entire idea of interpreting redshift as distance and velocity which is the only basis there ever was for believing in an expanding universe. Quasars in particular turn out to be not remotely as distant as a redshift=distance cosmology demands.

[blueunicorn6]

“Assuming that the universe makes sense” - oh, it makes sense alright. It’s the scientists who keep messing up.

[cripplecreek]

Alpha Centauri is about 26 trillion miles away.

Our sun compared to VY Canis Majoris, the largest known star.

[P.O.E.]

All kidding aside - cool post, thanks.

[Right Brother]

In God's plan, we are so insignificant.

Actually, we are very significant. We seem to think that our physical size, in relationship to the universe, makes us somehow unimportant. Even a galaxy becomes a mere speck in relation to an INFINITE universe. So how big must we become to be significant? God's love has no size restrictions.

[wardaddy]

In God's plan, we are so insignificant.

LOL..not to some who post on this forum...but I don't have to tell you that.

[hattend]

The Dept Of Defense briefed the president this morning.

They told President Obama that 2 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq.

To everyone’s surprise, all the color drained from Obama’s face. Then he collapsed onto his desk, head in his hands, visibly shaken, almost in tears.

Finally, he composed himself and asked, ‘Just how many is a brazilian?’

[Red Badger]

14.6 TRILLION DOLLARS in debt doesnt sound so big now................/s

[Oratam]

Brilliant, But Distant:

For a second, I thought this was another NYT's article defending Obama.

[EternalVigilance]

"The quasar itself is a remarkable object in that no one really knows how to form a black hole that massive, two billion solar masses, in what in cosmological terms is a relatively short time,"

Uhmmm...well...obviously SOMEONE knows how.

[grey_whiskers]

*PING*

[mikrofon]

Not to mention that one light-year is around 6 trillion miles, and the known universe is billions & billions < /sagan > of l-y in extent...