even with what little we know i still find it truely difficult to comprehend the size of it all, how bout you?
2007-09-07 02:06:42 · 13 answers · asked by Ste B 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I know they talk about light years as though its like a mile or something...Its the distance light travels in one year, and bearing in mind light takes 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the earth and thats 93 million miles away Imagine a light year ...the mind boggles.hehehehe.
2007-09-07 02:12:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The numbers involved in trying to imagine the vast scale of the universe truly DO boggle the mind. A light- year is approximately a distance of 6 trillion miles (that's a 6 with 12 zeros after it!)
The best calculations of expansion (after the 'Big Bang') have place the age of the universe somewhere between 12 and 15 BILLION years.
The multiplication for a problem that size is too much for practically anyone to comprehend...
2007-09-07 06:23:10 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Milky way replaced into one hundred km in diameter, then the Observable Universe may well be approximately ninety 3 million km in diameter, or one million Astronomical Unit. actual features of the Milky way at this length may well be as follows: mass = one million.sixty 4 milligrams; complete ability output = 89.38 kilowatts. The sunlight might have a radius of seventy 3.fifty seven nanometers, a mass of two.35 femtograms, and a complete ability output of four microwatts, 10,000 circumstances much less ability than a common LED. The photograph voltaic device's radius may well be a paltry 238 micrometers.
2016-12-31 15:36:25 · answer #3 · answered by poirrier 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can comprehend the size of the universe. Its just a lot of galaxies. I can imagine 156 billion light years with billions of galaxies.
What I cant understand is what created the universe? Was it spontaneous? Did god fart?
And do the rules of the Universe, time, dimensions etc exist and rule what ever we are expanding into? Its something we will never ever know.
2007-09-07 02:57:00 · answer #4 · answered by futuretopgun101 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's simple. The nearest star is a few light years away. Multiply that distance by a few million and you're at the edge of known space.
2007-09-07 05:08:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is indeed that large. U look in a telescope and see a Galaxy and it is so small. It could be a hundred light years across ,and it is just a speck.
2007-09-07 04:40:50 · answer #6 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have seen scale models of the Obsevable Universe. Indeed, I made my own in a book I did for my niece and nephews.That helps one to understand it.
2007-09-07 04:05:02 · answer #7 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The size of the univers is, to the human mind, well beyond genuine comprehension.
2007-09-07 02:16:23 · answer #8 · answered by psyop6 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Incomprehensible.
2007-09-07 02:10:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think mathematics is a perfect science. How many ants do you think are on this rock. it's all micro macro ta me.
2007-09-07 02:13:02 · answer #10 · answered by mw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋