A visual guide to the scale of everything...
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/j...su/powersof10/
A fascinating visual aid to help understand the scale of everything in this universe - from our solar system down to an atom. This is a must-see for anyone who thinks that we're significant beings in this universe.
Einstein once said something or other about Relativity
I think we are in fact significant beings, even if we go by "Size"
We humans are as huge to something on the atomic scale, as galaxies are to us.
it's all relative.
ThisOriginally Posted by Keeper
Quite a few of these threads so far.
I don't why people think this make humans any less significant.
You can't trust a meta-ethical moral relativist since such a person can abuse reason to justify any act.
Only one working link there and this uses actual images for the most part instead of an animation. Maybe someone else will find it interesting...
That presupposes significance in the first place...
It was interesting, I was pointing out how popular such threads are here.
Sure. Interesting depictions of the scale of the universe such as this may reinforce people's views of being significant. Subjective judgments really.
You can't trust a meta-ethical moral relativist since such a person can abuse reason to justify any act.
You only really understand the value of something until it is gone:
1. How significant will the total effect/change be to the universe if we all just seized to exist? Nothing really.
2. If only you or me seized to exists how significant will that be to whom? Your loved ones will be affected and maybe some other people, but that's about it.
You see, us as individuals are significant to one another, our environment and maybe planet Earth, but all these are very insignificant as well. So in the grand scheme of things, us human beings are not very significant or important at all.
Significant to what or whom? If Jesus, please go post in PD or elsewhere.
"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution."
Robert Sewell.
You just had to go there, didn't you?
We are significant on this planet( being capable nuclear destruction and mining mars and all) and solar system that makes us plenty important.
I and the voice inside my head(vis a vis my conscience) both agree that Jehovas partenalistic rulership is better than Satans liberal anarchy.
Yup.
"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution."
Robert Sewell.
You have a point. Unless there is some empirical scientific experiment to determine our "significance", any claim about our significance belongs in PD. This thread appears to be belong in PD...
You can't trust a meta-ethical moral relativist since such a person can abuse reason to justify any act.
Not really because we can discuss the size of the universe without going philosophical, but yeah challenging the significance point probably belongs in PD.
Good point. In future I'll start them all in PD so we can avoid the tedious and inevitable process of you dragging them there, kicking and screaming. It has additional benefits too, but I won't go into those...
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