Photo of the Universe - Do you feel insignificant in the grand scheme of things?

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"Photo shows the distant Milky Way star located in deep space about 2,000 light-years away in the Ursa Major constellation. At this distance, light that was emitted by the star 2,000 years ago is just now reaching Earth, giving earthlings a close-up glimpse of what the star looked like around the time Julius Ceasar reigned and Jesus Christ (purportedly) walked the Earth."

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"A test image captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in May. The dots with six sunbeams stretching outward are stars, while the other sources of light are distant galaxies." (NASA, CSA and FGS team)
 

On a cosmic level we are nothing but a speck, especially at the individual level we are barely measurable.

They say the universe is still expanding but into what? It boggles my mind to think about the edge of the universe. The universe as we know it on this side so what's on the other side? The idea of nothingness is more then my tiny brain can grasp. But oh man do I want to see it!
 
That light has taken millions of years to reach earth, so essentially we are looking into the past. I wonder where those objects are now and what they are doing. They might be heading back towards the center of the universe in the big crunch and we wouldn't know. We are doomed. šŸ™
 
C50 said:
On a cosmic level we are nothing but a speck, especially at the individual level we are barely measurable.

They say the universe is still expanding but into what? It boggles my mind to think about the edge of the universe. The universe as we know it on this side so what's on the other side? The idea of nothingness is more then my tiny brain can grasp. But oh man do I want to see it!
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endless, eternal. forever expansion into multiverses unto multiverses. never ending! Beyond the ever-changing phenomenal existence there lies the unchanging, non-changing absolute bliss of the absolute. Our interpretation of linear time does not exist in the absolute.
"Nothingness" is a non-concept, created by fearing minds.
Underneath the most subtle layer of all that exists in the relative is the Being. Not matter, not energy. This is unlimited cosmic existence.
as always, IMO.
 
Not "feel" but rather in certainty am.

Much less the Milky Way Galaxy or the entire Big Bang Universe or the eternal infinite 3D space of unknowns beyond, we all are born into a massive complex world where we are like an insignificant ineffectual helpless wood twig of flotsam floating down the Mississippi River. Considering geologic time, we DNA organic human beings are also in relative existence for mere moments.

I've studied physics and astronomy, and marvel at our moonless night skies when out at places where it is actually visible. In fact, just a few months ago reread a fat college used astronomy textbook. The majority of people today live in light polluted urban zones that have pathetic night skies. Here in California, our coastal regions even away from cities tend to have too much marine air water vapor. Our best night skies are higher elevation areas with dry humidity east of the Sierra Nevada north of Bishop out into much of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau regions.
 
If you are familiar with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, then maybe you have heard of the Total Perspective Vortex.

"The Total Perspective Vortex was a machine built with the intention of showing beings the infinity of creation, which became used as a method of torture."

Now, with our super telescopes it has become a reality. The universe is so vast, we can't really comprehend it. And there is the theory that it may be one of an infinite number of universes. We are but a blip. And, in geologic time, probably a very brief blip.
 
Grampa Don said:
If you are familiar with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, then maybe you have heard of the Total Perspective Vortex.

"The Total Perspective Vortex was a machine built with the intention of showing beings the infinity of creation, which became used as a method of torture."

Now, with our super telescopes it has become a reality. The universe is so vast, we can't really comprehend it. And there is the theory that it may be one of an infinite number of universes. We are but a blip. And, in geologic time, probably a very brief blip.
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Digging out my copy of the book, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! I'm over-due for a re-read!

As a young child, I remember nagging my father to tell me how much space we took up on my globe. I really did want to know my place and space on our planet! My father brought out my mother's assortment of needles...The pin point of the thinnest one is our entire city and more, he tried to explain. Then, of course, I had to ask a lot more questions - like why the people on the lower half of the globe didn't fall off? I really must have been a pain in the neck!
 
I remember reading a blog about some amateur SETI eggheads babbling about the big bang theory, galactic expansionism, the probability of alien invasions wiping Earth out, yada yada yada then the technician that set up the powerpoint and some other technogeek video stuff said what if Earth is just a speck in some aliens eye and the ELE is nothing more then his finger wiping us out? Prolly had to update his resume but I wish I was a fly on that wall.
 
Overwhelmed ? Perhaps. But as long as I make an impact on family or friends then I will not feel insignificant. The day I don't then I will feel insignificant. I know, trite answer but how I feel anyway.
 
When I watched the James Webb telescope photos on U-tube, I was gasping every few moments.
On Flickr, the Goddard Space Center and the Marshal Space Flight Center also have intense photos.
These are the most incredible photographs I've ever seen!
Think of the intelligence, the organization, the expansion of multiverses upon multiverses beyond our little sphere!
It's beyond comprehension!
How anyone can look at those photos and not believe in the Absolute, creative intelligence outside ourselves,
that our soul goes on forever, evolves into higher and finer worlds, well, you just CAN'T!
Those photos made my eyes fill with tears! Imagine the entities, the aliveness, the love!
 
FastTrax said:
I remember reading a blog about some amateur SETI eggheads babbling about the big bang theory, galactic expansionism, the probability of alien invasions wiping Earth out, yada yada yada then the technician that set up the powerpoint and some other technogeek video stuff said what if Earth is just a speck in some aliens eye and the ELE is nothing more then his finger wiping us out? Prolly had to update his resume but I wish I was a fly on that wall.
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I heard it said that our entire universe resides within a gas bubble in the intestines of god! Talk about a humbling concept!
 
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