How big is the universe?

[Daniela1982]

Buckle up, and let's take a look-see. Cancel your newspaper and put a hold on your mail. You won't be back for quite some time.

[MrOracle]

Most people have absolutely zero comprehension of the size of even our galaxy.

The fastest man-made object is Voyager 2. It's currently moving away from the Earth at around 35,000 miles per hour, and has been moving at that speed since the late 70s. It only just recently left our solar system and entered true interstellar space a couple of years ago.

IF Voyager 2 was aimed at our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri (it isn't heading there, but if it was), it wouldn't arrive to Proxima Centauri's solar system for another 70,000 years at its current speed. That's about 9 times longer than known recorded human history, which is only about 8,000 years. And, remember, this star is our very closest neighbor - a mere 4.2 light years away.

Without a worm hole or some kind of warp drive, traveling outside of our own solar system is a pipe dream. Of course, only 120 years ago, flying was a pipe dream, until a couple of bicycle makers figured out how to make a viable airplane. From that first Wright Flier that barely covered 120 feet of distance, we landed men on the moon in a little more than 60 years, so who knows what we'll figure out over the next couple hundred years?

[strateguy632]

how big? big.

i struggle with this problem. as a kid they put "infinite" into kid shows so i believed that but...

later i heard about multiverse but if universe is infinite in all directions, then no place for another parallel world not even one!

so i am skeptical of both now and don't know which to believe , accept.

[Daniela1982]

The parallel universes are just fiction thought up by mad men or conspiracy theorists. 🤣😂

[sage2021]

God I wish my boyfriend that died was still alive because he could answer this question.
His passion in life was astronomy, astrophysics and the Cosmos. He was brilliant in this area.
He used to try and teach me about the universe. We would go out on the balcony at night where we could see the stars, the moon, etc. He once told me that star's are born and are put in a nursery when they are just starting out. No pun intended 🙂.

[HaleyWalker]

I actually love this topic about the universe I wish that the gag Community would make this a topic. The universe is too big to comprehend though so I imagine it's huge, lol.

Up until recently I didn't know there was a thing called a white hole which sounds kind of weird. I might have that incorrect now that I think about it but it's the complete opposite of a black hole it just spits everything out.

[exitseven]

The universe is so big that it is incomprehensible.

[OfMiceandMen]

So big that other planets with living beings avoid us like the plague we are. We think there's nobody out there, but they've seen how f*^$ked we are and they be like...

to a Galaxy far... far away.

[TommyMountainFigure]

I don't need to watch that video to know the universe is Infinite! It's been a hobby of mine for many years!

[TommyMountainFigure]

Curiosity got the better of me and I watched it all. It was about 5 years ago I saw something like this. Technology has advanced SO much since then. I do however think we need a better way to describe distance. The further out we go, the more we need to call a measure of light years as something else.

[Daniela1982]

Instead of a light year, let's use "parsects" or "quadrants".

[TommyMountainFigure]

A parsec is already a measurement. I was thinking along the lines of.. a light year is = 9.461e+15, so what about a Light Century

[Daniela1982]

Or a light millennium?

[TommyMountainFigure]

Better.. yes, much better.

[TommyMountainFigure]

Shall we trade mark it? :))

[Daniela1982]

🤔🤔😉😊

[TommyMountainFigure]

Your name can go first, as it was your idea :D

[lil_will_12]

In school we have a planetarium and also a planetarium club. this year I was the “flyer” for the club, and I did basically exactly this lol, started at earth and slowly made my way to the observable universe (we did it to music too). It’s really beautiful.

[AviatorTom]

No one knows how big the universe is. Scientists estimate the size of the observable universe but there could be universe outside that. Maybe the Big Bang just happened in our little piece of the much larger universe, which we can't see because the speed of light limits us to only see what happened 14 billion years ago.

[NathanDavis]

that was quite the trip... and it still might be just a spec

[DaBiggestBird]

Imagine our solar system as a pigeon, and the universe as our solar system, but probably a little bit bigger. I think from an outside view it looks like a ball like a black hole, and from the inside, when you hit the edge you spawn on the other side. Since ours is the first to ever be made we’re probably alone here, no other neighboring universes, unlike I believe all other universes in their realms.

[lightbulb27]

Mind boggling and some makes no sense. It all came from nothing and is still coming from nothing? Imagine it started from cell… and even those are large.


Maybe we are but a cell in some greater being.

[Anonymous]

big enough where only foolish atheists can't fathom God being larger than the universe and think God is only some magic sky wizard living in Earth's clouds lmao

[IslaTheWitch]

bigger with every second if the theory about the expanding universe is right :D

[andreasderjuengere]

The little bit of it that is accessible to me is annoying enough.

I'm not really interested to know MORE of that shit.

It's definitely TOO big :D

[Daniela1982]

That's okay. We will never get out of our own solar system. 😅😂

[andreasderjuengere]

Yepp. Let's stay at home with beers :D

[Daniela1982]

It does seem to overwhelm us. Wait, can someone ever be underwhelmed?

[andreasderjuengere]

Being whelmed can be an interesting experience. If I'm under or over is just a secondary detail :)

[Likes2drive]

It’s so big it’s endless because there is nothing after it and defies all logic of what we think because something is always inside of something but there’s nothing afterwards so it’s hard to adjust our thinking for that

[adventurous-1]

beyond our ability to fully realize it full expanse or even come close to grasping it's significance in whole. We simply don't have the brain power.

[summiter]

That question always boggles my mind! One for sure is that I know that we can't be the only living things in the universe.

[EmmaMary]

@Daniela1982

That's like asking how long a piece of string is! lol

[Surely]

The human race will probably never know! I sit outside at night and am always amazed by looking up at the stars! No, I am not high or anything like this.

[Massageman]

" Observable" will just keep getting bigger.

[DrPepper12]

Big enough that heat death has a better chance than the big crunch!

[AngryCarl]

Nobody knows. We only know the size of the OBSERVABLE universe. The rest could be infinite for all we know.

[OddBeMe]

Right but the chick I’ve been dating online says she’s in Andromeda galaxy. And we’re meeting next week. After I send her $5k to travel.

[kellytheman]

I already seen the video and it kinda blew my mind how big it really is.

[Jerre]

Bigger than we will ever know.

[Jerre]

@daniela1982 Thank you for the Like

[DontAskMePeople]

Mind blowing 🤯😎, thanks for posting