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I don't get it? (Somebody please explain :-)) (Isn't the boundary just what is set by the speed of light?)

• gunn 8y ago
  My interpretation is that there are three boundaries - the big bang, the planck length, and the one defined by the speed of light. Within that there's a smaller area defined by the limits of the human senses.
• acqq 8y ago
  It’s the diagram that compares physically existing boundaries and the boundaries of what humans can experience. On the left (y axis) you have the time in log scale. The “now” is the begining (left corner down) and the end is the begin of the observable universe. On the bottom (x acsis) you have the distances again in log scale: left the smallest possible right the farthest physically observable (now it’s estimated to be cca 46 billion light years). The line starting from the lower left ending in the upper right says: the earlier something happened the farther it cam be and remain physically observable (due to the speed of light being finite). What humans can directly experience is of course small compared to the “all time” and “all space” and it would be invisible without the logaritmic scales used.
• tabtab 8y ago
  My interpretation is that day-to-day human experience is focused on things that are a small subset (range) of all possible scales, and the same applies to time: we don't live a billion years, nor can we perceive a difference of 0.000001 seconds. We have no direct "sense" of really small things nor really big things, and have no sense of really old things and really frequent/fast things.