Social An Atom Is 17 Billion Times Smaller Than a Human—But We're 520 Billion Trillion Times Smaller Than the Observable Universe

[pugilistico]

I think it's extremely unlikely that there is no life elsewhere in the universe. Our galaxy alone has like 100 billion stars by conservative estimates. If each star has only planet, that's still a lot of planets. Some of them could have multiple planets.

The Milky way is in the local group, which has about 50 galaxies. So could be about 5 trillion stars, meaning trillions of planets.

The local group is in the Laniakea supercluster, which has about approximately 100,000 galaxies. So that could be like 100 quadrillion stars? Who knows how many quadrillion planets there are. So even if the chance of life is 1 in a trillion, there are possibly 100,000 planets that have life in the Laniakea supercluster alone. And that's a conservative guess.

But the possibility of that life being sentient and being able to develop space travel is a lot smaller of course. Due to the mindboggling distances I would find it difficult to believe there are alien civilizations that travel to earth.

There are approximately 2 trillion galaxies in our observable universe. Who knows what more is out there beyond what we can observe with current technology. It does feel like we are nothing but a speck of a speck in the vastness of the universe.

and there is subatomic universe that exists within the atom as well that gives no fucks about what happens in this universe unless we are cracking the atom and blowing crap up.

An entire universe so different than ours that exists within its own plain of existence.

So every time we smash atoms in the hadron collider we are smashing entire universes?

 

[I Am Legion]

It really is amazing the enormity of the Universe. I don't know our brains can even comprehend it. Everything we do is using comparisons to something else. We have no comparison for numbers this large.

 

[pugilistico]

It really is amazing the enormity of the Universe. I don't know our brains can even comprehend it. Everything we do is using comparisons to something else. We have no comparison for numbers this large.

I was 13 when I learned how big the universe is it and gave me an existential crisis.

 

[HereticBD]

An atom would not be allowed to post on Sherdog.

 

[AmonTobin]

Has me wondering if there is something billions of times smaller than the atom and/or something billions of times larger than the observable universe, beyond our ability to detect and/or understand.

 

[Spam On Rye]

Always thought it was 20 billion.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

Has me wondering if there is something billions of times smaller than the atom and/or something billions of times larger than the observable universe, beyond our ability to detect and/or understand.

Does that mean a Quark is just an entire observable universe for really tiny people?

Or the solar system is just a atom, and the sun it's nucleus. And that's why a supercluster looks like it is forming something. And we are just going really slow compared to a much larger world.

 

[Yorick the Wiser]

so are we Gulliver or are we the Lilliputians?

 

[MarloStanfield]

What’s an atom made of?