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1413 points mooreds | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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neom ◴[22 Oct 24 00:08 UTC] No.41909872[source]▶
Some of that zooming in made me feel pretty damn uncomfortable. It really is f'ing massive out there huh. Makes me wonder what this is all about, I'm sure it's something, I wonder what. :)
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layer8 ◴[22 Oct 24 12:18 UTC] No.41913514[source]▶
It’s even more “massive” down below. There are only 27 orders of magnitude between human size and the size of the observable universe, but 35 orders of magnitude between human size and the Planck length. ;)
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worldsayshi ◴[22 Oct 24 14:42 UTC] No.41914794[source]▶
It could really be much larger beyond the observable horizon though? But I guess we will never know.
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1. layer8 ◴[22 Oct 24 18:28 UTC] No.41917218[source]▶
It might, and that’s part of the reason why I put a smiley. On the other hand, the larger you go, the less relevant it becomes, because if the light cones don’t touch then it might just as well be a separate universe.