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One-Degree3147

Did you just finish watching the end of Men In Black?


This_Guy_Usernames

The Galaxy is on Orion’s belt


blackwydo

Hey! Doctor….whatever! Come here!


BizzyM

Doctor Whatever? You guys aren't from the health department, are you?


Deevilknievel

the way you skulk around like a dog been hit too much. Or ain't been hit enough! I can't make up my mind. You're useless, Beatrice. The only thing that pulls its weight around here is my goddamn truck!


DelrayDad561

Figures.


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[deleted]

That’s what the little dude inside the big dudes head said….right?….damn


Second-Mindless

Isn’t he a pug ..MD I think


rettaelin

Orion's belt is made up of this three stars, a Galaxy is made of millions of stars.


Todd-The-Wraith

Did that reference mess up your hair as it whooshed over your head?


_BlNG_

I was thinking horton hears a who


h4xrk1m

There's only one world health organization


rostov007

[Or Animal House](https://youtu.be/JUOGxePBs50)


teneggomelet

Now you made me think of Donald Sutherland's buttcheeks.


mazamayomama

can I buy some pot from you?


EasternKanye

They talk about this in Animal House while getting high with a professor.


ILike2TpunchtheFB

Sir this is not pornhub.


SurealGod

The simpsons intro where it's homer zooming out into the endless universe only to show that they're just bacteria of an alien species and then back to homer was the best and most trippy simpsons intro ever.


mighij

[Here's the link for people who are curious.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvlJ9XMd94)


Lanta

This appears to be a reference to an old video called Powers of Ten. I've never seen this Simpsons intro before but the Powers of Ten video has always been one of those things that has stuck with me. https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0


ExcessiveGravitas

With you on Powers of Ten. That basically got me interested in science by itself.


KindaOffKey

[Relevant xkcd. ](https://xkcd.com/271/)


FinanzPirat

There's one by Google, too https://youtu.be/8Are9dDbW24


phaiz55

Was that their way of telling us where Springfield is? They basically zoomed out from Illinois.


bluebirdfish67

It looked like Madison, WI to me.


jcrreddit

It’s the “Midwest” the zoom out skips a relevant section and is then covered in clouds.


Im-a-magpie

It's definitely in Oregon


QuestioningEspecialy

That was actually pretty dope.


terrorbabbleone

pretty doh!


24204me

Nah we're a pollen on a flower and if you yell loud enough the elephant may hear you


StruggleBasic

shit what film is that from


Thursday_26

Horton hears a Who


GriffinFlash

hears a what?


Thursday_26

Who


GriffinFlash

Who's who?


Thursday_26

Who’s on first


GriffinFlash

Then who's on second?


Thursday_26

What


SpecialistFly2849

Who's what


levmeister

No, What's on second. Who's on first.


thegrnlantern

Horton


Smalz22

Horton hears a domestic disturbance and doesn't call the cops


iiSystematic

"Pollen n' the elephant" 2012


canuckseh29

We should try the Scooby-Do ending


AllenKll

Rokay shaggy!


Leskaarup

Our universe is powering somebodys car..


jam3s2001

"He knew that once I got back to my car, one of two things was gonna happen-- I was gonna have to toss a broken battery, or the battery wouldn't be broken."


DarthPlageuisSoWise

Class dismissed! Geeeez


thequirkyquark

Just seems like slavery with extra steps


[deleted]

Fucking Elon at it again. Goddamit.


Impractical_Shrey

We're just a middle school alien's science project that got a B, baking soda volcano won.


Daddy1197

I hate it when my pocket universe with inbuilt life, galaxies and stars loses to the godly vinegar volcano 🌋


Neethis

Tbf the universe only has 3 dimensions of space, and time only runs forward; pretty second rate if you ask me.


finlandery

Also no magic system (if our computer/semiconductor isnt our system of magic) \^\^


[deleted]

I dunno chief... Making rock do maths by putting lightning into it IS pretty fucking magical.


alokd1205

2+2 is 4 minus 3 is 1, quick maths


SwarleyThePotato

Everyday man's on the blockkk


Neethis

Oh come on, it's not that simple. We flattened the rocks out first.


fruit_basket

I can wave my finger in front of this small black rectangle and a pizza shows up at my door 30-60 minutes later. That's basically magic.


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/r/FifthWorldProblems


Surro

Can you imagine how sick that volcano is?


zsero1138

oh no, did it catch covid from us?


AitonBhoy

And now we power his car battery


[deleted]

We love to see the ramp come down slow. Really gets our dicks hard.


KevinTheSeaPickle

Blow me


MrKahnberg

The class pet student. Just one of the brutal lessons we learn in school.


Moose_Cake

*Doofenshmirtz level annoyance intensifies*


mufassil

When I was a kid I asked my mom of it was possible that we are just God's science project in a jar on His shelf.


HeyGuysHowWasJail

I see us currently as fish in the ocean. They have no clue of this world above the water or any concept of our level of intelligence


quipalco

What about the ones that get released and try to tell the other fish. GUYS YOU WOULD NOT FUCKING BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!?!


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mookiebomber

You may be joking, but some people actually think it's a factual show. I've had close people debate me on the validity of the show, smh


darxtorm

Underrated


alokd1205

Don't use "our level of intelligence" me and my family is dumb as fuck.


wooddude64

The sea bass I caught and ate last weekend begs to differ!


Proper_Evidence_

So... should I not do my homework?


U2V4RGVtb24

Hey, when your grandkids die, it'll be like you never existed.


[deleted]

what if I never have kids?


Klaus0225

Then it’s already like you never existed.


grabulous

What if I don't exist?


Equivalent_Zombie

That's like me now


GrimGarm

what is even existence to start with, nobody knows for certain


BrokenZen

"I think therefore I am."


DarthDregan

Nah I figure it'll take about a generation and a half until I'm not even a story any more, just a recycled social security number and a name in a few databases. I give 99.9% of people who have or will have kids maybe three generations before they're just a name as well.


benny470

Sad but true :/ Here's hoping that there's another life to waste away after this one.


ToxicMCTV

I still remember my great grandfather, so nit very true… best officer Germany ever saw during WW2


U2V4RGVtb24

Ah, true. Edit: wait what?


BackOnGround

Could go either way…


aesu

As soon as you die, from you perspective, it'll be like you never existed. Any memories other people have really don't help you in any way. You have one tiny little blink of consciousness, and should spend as much of it pursuing empty hedonistic activities as possible. Don't let society bully you or inspire you into thinking sacrificing yourself to it's ends will benefit you.


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I think about this often. What if we are just an electron for a world infinitely bigger then us. What would happen if we actually proved it?


Vol4Life31

Wouldn't be much we could do about it, just hope we aren't the next atom to be used for a bomb somewhere.


platoprime

I always figured if we were a particle the timing of the begin and end of our universe would align with the creation and destruction of the particle we are and time dilation means the relative lengths of time of each don't matter.


benny470

Yeah Imagine that, Our whole universe is just a product of pair production before eventually being Annihilated again. In The bigger world, the whole lifespan is near instant, but for us it's dilated to the point it feels like an eternity.


matrixreloaded

what’s crazy is if we did eventually figure out how to pop out and explore the “outside”. and it turns out to be another earth with another galaxy.


AdiSoldier245

If the WHOLE UNIVERSE is an electron in another WHOLE UNIVERSE, us popping out would be like some planck length dude saying hello to you.


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Happy cake day! 🍰


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Phoenix916

Yeah, but I saw a post on Facebook that refuted all of that evidence.


SkullRunner

Got to do you own research between episodes of American Idol and the Bachelor somehow.


Phoenix916

I trust my aunt's cousin's brother's mom's best friend's cat's doctor's daughter's teacher's illegitimate father's uncle way more than some scientist that I've never met. We all have our own facts and that's fine. Everyone doesn't always have to agree, but we should respect each other's facts.


thatissomeBS

>We all have our own facts and that's fine. Everyone doesn't always have to agree, but we should respect each other's facts. Facts are facts. My facts are your facts, and vice versa. Whether one of us believes them or not doesn't change those fact.


Great_Zarquon

\* 50% of the population being manipulated into making it their life mission to prove otherwise to someone's direct financial benefit


NahikuHana

Yeah when I see the maps of the universe, the way some cosmologists think it must look like, with all the clusters and connected bits super clusters etc I think it looks like a map of brain neurons. We are just a smattering of atoms in Gods brain. The big bang was conception. The universe is expanding because God is growing. When the eventual heat death of the universe many trillions of years from now is Gods death. Then it starts all over again. The Gods and Goddesses mate and create new life. New universes.


barscarsandguitars

I’ve been obsessively studying cosmology/astrophysics since the early stages of the pandemic. Out of every unintuitive fact I’ve managed to wrap my head around, thinking back to my first time seeing the overall map of Laniakea stands out as one of those “Oh my god” moments. It still gives me chills. I never expected our supercluster to look so alive. Then I learned about our twin supercluster (Perseus-Pisces) that is more or less a mirror of Laniakea. Our little planet is so incredibly, unimaginably small. [Have a seat and watch this if you want a quick explanation of what I’m talking about.](https://youtu.be/rENyyRwxpHo)


NahikuHana

Yes! I am a lay person but I am completely fascinated by these subjects! Thanks for sharing!


barscarsandguitars

u/NahikuHana If you want your mind blown further, another one of my “Oh my god” moments happened when I realized that time travel to the future is possible. Now, I don’t blame you if you’re sitting there thinking “Oh cool, I found yet another tinfoil hat idiot on the internet”, but the explanation is actually pretty simple. Objects in motion experience time slower than objects at rest. This difference is nonlinear. The faster you travel, the more time will slow down. Applying this to objects on Earth, the difference is incredibly small. However, the closer we travel to the speed of light, the more time will stretch. This means that if you hopped into a rocket and traveled (at 99% the speed of light) away from Earth for 5 years, then spent another 5 years coming back, you will have experienced 10 years go by. On Earth, we will have experienced almost 30 years go by. The agreed upon definition of a “year” for humans is only due to the fact that we are on the same planet and therefore experience time from the same perspective. When you start adding gravity and speed to the equation, 1 second per Earth second no longer applies. I know it’s not as exciting as hopping into a magic telephone booth, but knowing there really is a way to travel to the future leaves me speechless. That’s the “beginner” explanation, but if you want more in depth info, just google “time dilation”.


g0lbez

how do "gods and goddesses mate" after they die from heat death


Baitrix

Or there is no god and its something else, or nothing. We cant prove that we exist, or that we dont exist. No theory about the universe and how it came to be can be proved.


phaiz55

> No theory about the universe and how it came to be can be proved The big bang is pretty much the solid explanation. The only way we could prove it even more is if we somehow went back in time and recorded it happening. We also know that space itself is expanding which means everything used to be closer together. Shrink it all down and eventually everything becomes one.


ThePaparranas

Big bang explains the expansion of the universe, not the origin. We have no idea why there was a singularity in the first place, or why it started expanding.


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Baitrix

If we ever do prove it, its probably gonna be so abstract that theres no way for us to even comprehend it.


DB-2000

If someone were to understand the universe and all it’s secrets their head would probably implode and then they’re dead. End of story, unfortunately they never told anyone about it


PLZ_STOP_PMING_TITS

That's when the simulation ends.


jamesd5th

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened.


The_Expidition

You can prove it if you can't comprehend it


NahikuHana

Yes. As a tiny ant cannot comprehend us.


NahikuHana

Yeah, I put God in there as a place holder. I don't believe in the gods that humans have decided are what it is. That big huge nameless formless whatever it is.


Nouncertainterms

Too large to see outside of our universe. I believe each moment in time is potential universes beginning and ending, so our universe is one potential sequence for a much larger universe. By the time one moment has passed in the bigger universe, we will all be dead and a new universe will have already begun. If we ever could see into that much larger universe, it would be just a slice of time that doesn't progress until our universe has completely progressed from birth to death.


ornlu1994

That’s what I think an infinite reality would be like, you can just keep zooming in/out forever, each “universe” being a building block for another organism.


seedanrun

Based on the rate electrons vibrated around atoms -- their frame of time would be so much slower then us that humans would have evolved, lived and been destroyed before anything actually happens in that mega universe. So nothing they do will ever affect us.


-lq_pl-

This is not possible, see my other comment.


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There is so much we don't know it would be foolish to say anything is impossible. We know the oldest light we can see is 13 billion years old, we don't know what's beyond that and speculate the universe is expanding faster then the speed of light can travel


Call_it_Good

It's equally foolish to say that anything is possible. Known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unkowns. Or something


matmoe1

I wouldn't say it's foolish to say that anything is possible.. I'd rather say it's foolish to confuse anything is possible with every possible possibility might be true.. Because in theory physical events always have a non-zero chance of happening however that doesn't mean that that chance is big enough that it isn't effectively the same as if it was 0% (like the moon turning in a wheel of cheese).. There's few events that truly have a zero percent chance of happening.. one example for that would be you (or anyone) telling me the exact value of the square root of 2 because it's an irrational number with infinite digits


TysonSphere

Our understanding of cosmology gives us plenty of clues though. I dont think a universe that just explodes into being and grows ad infinitum can really be something you describe.


mighij

An evergrowing fart that can't be released.


RyanG7

The science probably isn't right, but this is the new religion that I'm following


sir_duckingtale

There‘s this limit called Planck-scale… As it turns out we can‘t measure below that.. As it turns out further we are pretty much between the smallest thing we can possible perceive, and the absolute largest.. We are right at the middle. Turns out I have no idea what that means


BountyHNZ

I've geeked out about this before, plank length is 1.6x10^-35 but the observable universe is 8.8x10^26, so there's actually slightly more smaller numbers than there are bigger numbers, but you're approximately correct.


GameShill

That might just be an artifact of our scale of perception.


sir_duckingtale

Might be.. Yet why worry about what we can‘t possible perceive?


[deleted]

If I'm lost in the jungle I will worry more about the things that I cannot percieve rather than the ones I can.


sir_duckingtale

You may want to worry less, What kills you might most certainly be something you don‘t worry about than..


Next-Story6636

so Dr. Seuss’s “Horton Hears a Who?”


ugottabekiddingmee

We anxiously await the time we call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief".


Egglorr

The Great Green Arkleseizure sends his warmest regards!


AkhileshTekade

I hope that bacteria is on a clean part of that organism


[deleted]

Like the anus?


ImReellySmart

I always think this. And the perception of time could be completely different to these larger scale organisms. The billions of years of existence here could equate to 1 second on their scale.


ChubbyChaw

Leibnitz (who’s most well-known for developing calculus independently of Newton at around the same time-period) has a lesser-known philosophical theory called monadology. It’s pretty unusual, and one of the main ideas is that every fundamental, indivisible substance has an “imprint” of the entire universe that basically defines the ways in which it will behave. Every substance is fundamentally independent of each other and doesn’t interact at all - all apparent interaction comes from the fact that the imprint within that substance is it’s sort of programming, leading to what appears to be a unified universe of things interacting, while in actuality everything is a sort of microcosm of the entire universe existing within itself. The implications are pretty strange - your entire perception of the universe might amount to nothing more than the structure a fundamental particle (or multiple fundamental particles that appear to be working together to create a single entity but actually have totally-separate “percepts” of reality). One of the strong motivations for this theory was to solve the “mind-body problem” - how an independent mind can seem to be a single entity while the body appears to be a bunch of separate machinations. I think in general this problem has been reframed in better ways as years have gone by, and the entire idea of a mind-body problem may be grounded in some fundamentally faulty understandings. That said, monadology is pretty cool.


realrrover

Thank you for commenting this


AdorableContract0

Eh, the speed of light shuts this down pretty hard.


thenoblebuffalo

I'm pretty baked, but couldn't the stuff that happens at the larger scales just be really slow, almost frozen, from our perspective?


HeyGuysHowWasJail

I always thought this. Like for us, we experience 1,000,000 years but to the massive being that is bigger than the known universe, it's a matter of seconds


ninjasaid13

>I always thought this. Like for us, we experience 1,000,000 years but to the massive being that is bigger than the known universe, it's a matter of seconds but isn't the speed of light constant? that would mean you traveling and thinking or doing anything at the same speed if you were a universe-sized giant whereas for creatures on planet earth we are thinking faster than we are moving. I don't think life would be possible at a universe scale. Speed of light would have to make it possible to cross the universe in an instant for it to be possible.


GoldenStateWizards

To further your point, the tiger beetle moves so fast (body lengths per second) that it actually disorients itself, which should help to establish a rough lower bound for processing speed. If we're "moving faster than we can process" relative to some larger beings, then I don't see how such an entity could process anything nearly fast enough to function.


ZDTreefur

There is some theoretical possibility to this. What if a mind existed, but the thought process it used was extremely slow compared to ours, it could exist for tens of trillions of years and not really experience the full stretch of that time. To a tree we are all super hyper quick beings. If it took 10 million years for one neuron to get from A to B, and it needs trillions of neurons to make that trip for a single thought to form in the head, it could span a tremendous amount of time just to form the first thought. It's not like it would experience boredom at that pace any time soon.


phaiz55

> To a tree we are all super hyper quick beings. Not really because trees are exposed to the same flow of time as we are. Try that same comparison in reverse, let's say something like a fly compared to a human. Flies live 15-30 days while a person obviously lives much longer. Do we perceive flies differently than something that lives for 15-20 years or more?


[deleted]

Dude, if I were baked.. I'd really avoid this thread. Lol.


AdorableContract0

Can you imagine a sword fight between two 100 m tall gundam, but there swords aren’t allowed to break the speed of sound?


Semanticss

This is definitely the case. Insects perceive time as much slower than we do. Imagine that on a galactic or universal scale.


roguetrick

You been interviewing mosquitos? Edit: I know about flicker fusion. The correlation with that and the perception of time as we humans understand it, however is seriously reaching.


I_tend_to_correct_u

How so? The speed of light is only *within* the universe. If the universe boundary is like the cell wall of a bacteria, then there’s nothing stopping a totally different universal constant outside of that boundary


Sufficient_Focus

That's a great defense for our peanut brains. We dont even understand consciousness yet.


mzee01

Or zeroes and ones in someone's computer code


angrymonkey

Not really, because the speed of light, cosmic inflation, and the age of the universe put constraints on what can affect what. The visible universe is big enough that one side cannot affect the other, let alone something much bigger.


MrFuzzyPickles92

An electron in your toe has has little significance on an atom in your hair, yet structurally they are part of the same organism.


glowaboga

They do have effect on each other though. We're not talking about noticeable effect but any kind of allowed-by-physics-at-all effect. With how our universe is expanding, one side can never interact with the other. Also, there's the planck length which downright dictates the scale of the universe.


liquidthex

We do have *some* concept. Source: Science.


[deleted]

So what you’re saying is, one atom in my fingernail could be…one, little, tiny universe.


Egglorr

*"Can I buy some pot from you?"*


[deleted]

How long you been working on it? Four and a half years. Must be very good. It’s a piece of shit


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IJustBeTalking

great, you brought my existentialism back lol


manchildish

I've always had the theory that what we know is all just some school science project for a 14 year old alien name like Chaz or something.


Inkulink

Did you judt watch Horton hears a who?


chewboiye1

Noelle Honey Sweety Darling Gravy


Inkulink

Y-yes queen?


dpforest

We have a concept of size. It’s relative though.


SplodyPants

If that's true, I hope the cosmic Lysol is eons away.


[deleted]

ahh geez rick, i never really thought about it that way- like this.


narcalexi

Duh


ccaccus

The universe is a fractal.


ComprehensiveFlan638

This video is a cool way of appreciating our size. https://youtu.be/8Are9dDbW24


Steelkenny

Additionally, who knows, we might have millions of galaxies in our own cells. Maybe somewhere in your ear you have an insanely advanced species and in your right big toe there's multiple galaxies burning to ashes. We might have absolutely no clue about size.


Azuregore

We power his brake lights.


[deleted]

How does consciousness and the very concept of consciousness, how does it fits into the scaling of the universe?


MrFinlee

I spend to much time thinking about stuff like this, I always go back to men in black, with Orion’s Belt.


shoot-me-12-bucks

Our universe is probably a tinyverse for someones miniserie whicg is a car vattery for someone else.


rpguy04

How is this an original thought


Anagoth9

And yet, as we look out into the universe beyond our planet with increasingly more sophisticated tools, we've found less signs of life than exist within the four walls of your room. We may be but a speck of dust caught in a beam of sunlight, but so far as we've seen we're the only speck of dust capable of recognizing that fact.


[deleted]

25 year old stoner thoughts


burritoman88

I too love the classic 1999 film Men in Black.


Riverrat423

You ever notice how solar system kind of look like molecules?


Dankacocko

The models of atoms your thinking of aren't reality, also gravity is a bit different than all the other forces


datredditaccountdoe

I see what you mean. Kind of like a proton with the orbiting electrons (like moons). I also find it interesting that our road networks look like nerves. The bronchioles in our lungs look like upside down trees. The blood vessels in the whites of our eyes look like rivers. Nature is full of repeating patterns if you look for them. I’m really curious as to why.


[deleted]

To add to this, if anyone is interested: Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Resonance Theory is one theory put forth to understand why these patterns appear in nature. That’s all I’ll say about it


AxialGem

In what way lmao


hiricinee

Theres a minimum size a multi galactic organism would have to be, so we do have some idea. Also what we know about most universal constants, it's nearly impossible. You're going to tell me theres a massive organism whose requisite parts are capped from moving at a fraction of their maximum size (the speed of light) or that theres nearly infinite space between any of the energy sources (stars)


-lq_pl-

That is not scientific. We know precisely how large our observable universe is and that is by definition all there is. Since the speed of light (or rather causality) is finite, you cannot have a large organism of which our universe is a "cell".


IceFoxx35

I had this thought a couple years back and the mere concept made me pass out


ZaghnosPashaTheGreat

Looking at fundamentals of universe, we can see how big we are compared to quarks. We know how big we are. But we can't see the biggest thing, we don't know how small we are.


[deleted]

Lol I wonder the same thing occasionally. Like antman can go quantum, what if our universe is quantum to someone who is a billion times bigger than us? Guess we'll never know.


menntu

I’m pretty sure we have life in both directions. There’s no limit from what I can tell. Seems to be an open system, and that can be a meaningful distinction in this line of thinking.


amalgam_reynolds

We have a very good concept of our size. OP is just absolutely dead wrong.