how small are we compared to the universe?

Question

an atom--a molocule--a cell---a tissue--an organ--a human--a town--a state---a country---a continent---earth---solar system--galaxy--universe!!
How much will it take to jump from one to another.
How do u feel when u think about it?
God bless

Answer 1

Your question reminds me of the "yakko's universe" song on the animaniacs, and i feel the same way that they did: its a big universe, and its mine!

I have a huge pair of binoculars and i often look at all the stars and planets and things. i claim each one. and i feel huge.

Answer 2

One perspective is that we're incredibly small - the universe is billions and billions and billions of LIGHT YEARS long, wide -- that means it's INCREDIBLY, BEYOND imagination HUGE. But then we get into what is space and what is the universe expanding into if space is a construct in this universe, etc. Makes your mind numb. Another perspective from modern physics says that every particle that interacted maintains some 'knowledge' of that interaction; given the cosmology theories that have all space, matter, energy confined to the size of a pinhead, everything seems to have interacted. This interaction bugged Einstein because it means that if two particles that initially interacted were separated by even billions and billions of light years, if one were to change to affect the equilibrium of their interaction, the other would instantaneously change -- something that is against the rule that no signal can travel faster than light. This suggests a connectivity amongst all things (and this 'non local connection' stuff has been proven in experiments, probably causing Einstein to turn in his grave). Furthermore, when those who directly experience Reality, they talk about the experience of themselves as EVERYTHING -- something completely beyind imagination, of course. '3 Pillars of Zen' provides a good description of what these people potentially experience.

Answer 3

Thank you for this question.

If you look at it in terms of physical time and space then we as physical beings are very miniscule. Yet at the same time, for some reason our physical existence at this time and place somehow fits into, and is part of making up the universes as a whole.

Taken on a metaphysical plane, and bear with me because there is a sequence to what I am saying -

In Islam we are taught that there is really only one being, God, and that all things, animate and inanimate flowed from him. From that point of view the universe IS God, as manifested in time and space.

Then we see that there is a Hadith Qudsi (Sacred Hadith) in which Muhammad said that God said that there is nothing which can contain God, except that God exists in the heart of the loving believer.

Therefore, when viewed from that perspective, we, each of us, have the potential to contain all of time and space.

Peace and Blessings,

Salim

Answer 4

We would be infinitely smaller than an atom in comparative analysis of the human species and the universe in its physical structure. Jumping in size would require a great deal of physical energy in the form of ice cream. It makes me happy to think of ice cream.

Answer 5

I am small enough to be awestruck at what God created when he created the Universe. With God we could go from one end of it to the other in a twinkling of an eye. I get dizzy with the wonder of it all especially when I consider that God created all this beauty yet chose to die for me .

Answer 6

The bible say in the during a point in the end of time god will reveal the secrets of the universe.

Answer 7

The universe is as much in our heads as outside (being as much of a concept as anything else) and so in a sense we are each individually bigger than the universe.

Answer 8

We are like... Well, you know dogs have fleas? Well, fleas have bacteria in thier gut, and each one has enzymes, made from atoms, made from sub-atomic particles with strange names like quarks...

Well, if the universe is a dog... humans correspond to tiny non-particles that physicists dream about proving exist, but cant.

I like your scale aspect too...

Answer 9

Let's just put it this way - our galaxy, spanning lightyears from end to end, doesn't even register as anything more significant to the universe than what a speck of dust would to us.

Answer 10

I get a strong sense of it when I look at the stars on a clear moonless night. I see stars and then fainter stars going on and on. Then get a sense of scale and with it comes a whooshing; a sort of pleasant vertigo...