Am i the only person who crys when the tink about how big the universe is??????

Question

the universe never ends and i fell so small. anybody else feel this way?

Answer 1

no its only scary if you don't know your place in it

Answer 2

You are not alone.

Remember, only ignorance is bliss.

Even the great Albert Einstein once said:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Take pride in the fact that you have the ability to ponder these age old mysteries and the humility to feel as you do when you gaze out onto the stars.

Don't cry though - and don't be overwhelmed - you are still the most important thing in the world to your family and loved ones - and that's not insignificant compared to anything!

Answer 3

The universe is so vast that the Human mind can not grasp it's immensity.We all feel very small when we look up at night and see that beautiful blackness dusted with stars that sparkle like diamonds.The only thing we can do to overcome this feeling of "smallness" is to reach out to the ones we love and hold them close.

Answer 4

Not many people realize the infinity of space and time. Many acknowledge the fact of infinity, but not many can actually comprehend it. When realizing such a fact you do feel small, but take comfort from others; as they will help you. And remember to live life to its fullest - (but nothing bad).

Actually realizing the infinity of time is more scary.... but I'll have more to say in my book on this subject. Remember the name Annas Rahman....... :)

Answer 5

dont cry be marveled. think about this. there are probbably millions of earth like planets in our galexey. adn there a millions of galiexeys out there in the universe. goodness knows how many universes there are and how many dimentions hold infinate numbers of universes. but there is only one of you adn you are unique. you a very special think in the wonders of the universe. be proud of that.

Answer 6

yeah, when the old TV series "Lost in Space" came out, that concept alone scared the be-jebus out of me. I don't think I cried though. I just huddled under my blankets with my back to the wall and had really big eyes and tried not to breathe.

Answer 7

I have a fun little anecdote which might make you feel better in that there are lots of people who have a hard time wrapping their mind around the subject. I'm a TA for an astronomy course for liberal arts students, andI have one student who came to me to ask questions about some of the material. So I was going through some of the lecture slides with him when we get to a sequence of pictures which are obviously zoom outs of each other (e.g. picture #2 is a zoomed out view of picture #1, and picture #3 is a zoomed out view of picture #2, and so on). So, the first picture is something you might be able to find on Google Earth if you zoomed in close enough: it was a picture of a random park bench. The next picture zoomed out 100 times and there was the city. Now, this person was nodding his head, saying, "Yeah, yeah, I get that. There's 100 of the first picture in this one..." He got that. So, the next one showed basically a signifcant region, perhaps 100 miles across. Again, this person had no problem. They've seen maps, right?

The next picture was zoomed out another hundred times, and showed the whole Earth. Still, this person was doing fine. The next zoom out was only about 30 times, and showed the Moon's orbit around the Earth. The next one, perhaps compensating a bit, zoomed out 400 times to show the whole distance between the Earth and the Sun, as well as some of the orbits of Venus and Mercury. The next slide repeated this picture, with a little more explanation (defining the distance called an Astronomical Unit, for instance), which was good because that self-assurance this person has shown to this point would fold in on itself pretty quickly from here on out.

The next zoom out, another 100 times or so, showed the whole Solar System. However, of the inner planets, you could only make out Mars's orbit (which was a little too large to show up in the previous frame), with Mercury's, Venus's, and even our own Earth's orbits too small to fit between Mars's orbit and the Sun (there weren't enough pixels). My student at first was puzzled at this before I explained that the Earth's orbit was simply too small to be shown. The next frame zoomed out another hundred times and only showed a small dot labelled as the Sun. None of the orbits of the planets were visible. The next frame was zoomed out another 100 times and showed the Sun and perhaps two dozen other stars. This frame repeated itself to define a light-year and quote the distance to the nearest star to the Sun. At this point, this person's mind was clearly blown, but not yet broken.

The next picture, zoomed out another 100 times, showed a bunch of stars, as you might see of a picture taken through a telescope of any part of the night sky. There was a line pointing to nothing in particular which was labelled "Sun". The next shot was only a zoom out of about 50 times and showed the whole Milky Way. If there was no evidence of the presence of the Sun (not to mention the Earth) in the previous frame, there was even less in this picture. At this point, this person's mind started to simply not comprehend the scales involved, so I went quickly through the rest. The next frame was zoomed out 100 times or so again, and showed the local group of galaxies. The imposing Milky Way was little more than perhaps a largish dot here. Then came the final picture, where the house of cards came tumbling down: zoomed out another 100 or so times, the picture could have been of static. They didn't understand the picture until I told this person that each white dot in the picture represented a group of galaxies. Needless to say, this person was done for the day.

So, you have at least one person as company, and the truth is I've only learned to deal with it by more or less ignoring everything either too large or too small to fit in the view of my mind's eye. I simply don't try. Basically, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy summed it up perfectly: "'Space,' it says, 'is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space....'"

Answer 8

We have stared at the tree of knowledge and seen our nakedness....and we trembled.....famous quote from someone

Answer 9

i do too. it's dumb to belive that we are the only intelligent life in this vast universe.

Answer 10

It makes me happy to part of something so magnificent

Answer 11

yes everyone in the whole world