What is it about the Universe that truly fascinates you?

[thegreenyogi]

[OneViewpoint]

There's not enough space (pun intended) on the servers.

• What is the true nature of reality?
• How did we get here?
• Are we even capable of perceiving reality with the equipment we've evolved, a brain and five senses? For instance, our eyes can only see in a limited band of the electromagnetic spectrum.
• Are we confined to this planet by the speed of causality (lightspeed) and the immensity of the universe?
• What if there are 11 dimensions as proposed by string theory? We can only perceive 4 without help from our mechanical tools.
• What is the true nature of gravity and how does it factor into everything because it seems to permeate everything?
• Is this the only universe or are we one of infinite universes?
• What is consciousness and where does it originate?
• Are we living in a hologram?
• Are we living in a simulation?
• Are we the only life? Because the building blocks for organic life seem pretty abundant.
• Are humans the only intelligent species?
• Are we the dream of some alien?
• If there is a builder or builders out there, where the fuck are they? Do they care about this universe or are we just an abandoned failed experiment. Insignificant as bacteria on a test bench.
• What happens to socks in the washing machine? I'm telling you it's fucking aliens.

[NathanDavis]

here's something funny about size, lol...

the universe is actually bigger, way bigger than the age we can guesstimate it to be... this, in terms of how fast and how long can light travel...

the universe itself, expands way faster than "the universe it is" and that's just crazy

but not only that... the actual universe is also way way way beyond than anything we can perceive or understand, lol

what we know as the universe, is actually... the observable universe, which is less than 1% of it...

[thegreenyogi]

That is something to consider. Very fascinating!!

[msc545]

What fascinates me most about the universe is the almost incomprehensible contrast between how enormous it is and how much of it we can understand from one tiny place inside it.

We are sitting on a small planet orbiting an ordinary star in one galaxy among hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions. Yet from here, human beings have figured out what stars are made of, measured the age of the universe at about 13.8 billion years, detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes, and reconstructed conditions that existed shortly after the Big Bang.

[Cidknee]

This is my answer too!

[Marshast]

How contained and fragile of a species we are. At the same time, humans are a wondrous creature itself, and also a pestilence.
There’s so much we could telepathically do beyond what we consider comprehensible, but we are locked out of that somehow. It feels like if there are parallel universes, we’re most likely being observed like rats, or being played like chess.

[Zack-Bann]

How heavy it is.


Our universe is held together by its own weight.


Were it weightless it would disperse in every direction.


If we step out of our own bodies we can feel truly how much weight holds us down

[thegreenyogi]

That is something that makes one think. How fascinating...

[ProbablyClueless]

The scale. The size.

It's really difficult to wrap the human mind around the distances we're talking about. It's a truly insane concept that there is light and radiation visible to us on Earth that is only just reaching us now, 10s of billions of years after it was created. The events we're watching unfold in the sky happened a very long time ago.

[AviatorTom]

It's obvious that planets and stars are round, so why are there so many people who say the Earth is flat? Are they really stupid? Or maybe they're really smart to make money off the stupid people who believe them.

[ChicoFromThe305]

That it doesn't end, what would happen to a human if someone just went over the line past the barrier and beat the universe at its own game, would they still float? Would they just explode or vanish, who knows 😂

[ElenaLena]

The sky…it fascinates me all the time.. especially at night..

[fishbone77]

practically everything. Even the fact that your genetic line is traced back to the origin of life on this planet, and every one of your ancestors survived. Even you were a one in a billion chance of happening.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

What truly fascinates me about the Universe is when people think we are alone in it.

[Kassandra1994]

Well the Universe takes care of everything and will send Karma to who ever hurts us.

[Nikki1989]

How much it offers people. The possibilities are endless.

[exitseven]

It is only one of an infinite number of parallel universes (or is it universii?)

[Still-alive]

how we are basically just a little tiny microbe compared to the vast immense universe. and yet still we have not yet found intelligent alien life. are we truly alone?

[Agape93]

Near infinite possibilities

[xawyx-3]

The enormous size of course.

[Abbycado]

The sheer size.

[Staximus]

That it’s too big to comprehend

[Paige2006]

How large it is

[slatyb]

Women.

[ThisSiteSux]

Nothing happens to bad people.

[Anonymous]

The sun