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> to comprehend the scale of the universe is deeply unsettling, especially when thinking about our minute, insignificant part of it Humans are 10^27 times sma
by vorg 13y ago
> to comprehend the scale of the universe is deeply unsettling, especially when thinking about our minute, insignificant part of it
Humans are 10^27 times smaller than the observable universe, and 10^24 times bigger than the neutrino, presently the smallest observable thing, and 10^35 times bigger than the smallest theoretical distance, the Planck length. That puts humans around the center of the Universe's scale, hardly minute and insignificant, and one could argue on that basis the human brain, even mind, is at the conceptual center of the Universe!
- walden42 13y agoYeah, we're at the center of everything we can observe. That seems to make sense. It might seem the same way from the point of view of a neutrino =)
- vorg 13y agoA neutrino isn't conscious.
- mkessy 13y agoBut we are at the center of a log-scale. One that for powers much greater than 3 or 4 in either direction takes serious cognitive processing to comprehend. When you start discussing 10 or 20 powers in either direction your brain is woefully under powered. Now that is only speaking of the 3 length-based dimensions, considering a 1000, a million, or 13 billion years in either direction is an even harder task. And besides why would our "centrality" be particularly interesting? Maybe all the fun stuff is happening on million year time scales, or at the quantum level?