The Scale of the Universe
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:02 pm
Discussion of the nature of Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment
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1:1 with imagination involved. Nobody really knows most of those sizes, or if those things really exist. That's why I said I think the sizes go down too small. I think there's a Black Hole in the middle of an Atom, so that alters the picture quite a lot... I think.Jason wrote:1:1
I thought the wow factor was how much stuff you can fit in an atom... and it's wow.. surely wrong, surely OTT, and surely we would weigh a ton. But anyway.. we are the origin to compare with. You would make life harder to compare thing with an unfamiliar origin.David Quinn wrote:Meh.
The wow factor is solely a product of our anthropomorphism. A mirage generated by our entrenched habit of comparing everything to ourselves.
Religion may be dying, but our anthropomorphism continues to live on unabated.
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It's not a = a because it's wrong. It's more like a = z.prince wrote:It's interesting, but not Wow, because it is what it is (a = a) , it could not be any other way.