Posted on January 28, 2019
Internet Notes: Page 25
Day 8013
Monday, January 28th, 2019
Brandon Andrew Grisham
The Universe, as observed, is over 8.8 x 1026 meters in diameter.
- Only ~ 5% is ordinary baryonic matter. The rest is unknown.
- In total, it is 45 billion light years and always expanding in scope.
To help explain scale, roughly 1.3 million copies of Earth could fit in the Sun.
- There are over 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone.
The previous estimate of galaxies was 200 billion (2×1011).
- Now it is suggested to be 2 trillion (2×1012) galaxies.
Even following a constrained view of 10 billion galaxies (not 2 trillion) there are an average of 100 billion Stars per galaxy.
That equals a billion trillion stars.
Over 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars in the observed universe.
You are nowhere near as important as the vastness of the unknown.
- While minuscule in scale, you.can still explore and learn.
- What you discover could bridge that gap in scale.
- Great distances have been traversed in time.
- What you discover could bridge that gap in scale.
How far we go as a species depends on personal and societal motivation.
- We have accomplished a great deal in a short amount of time
- Where we go depends on how effective we can be.
- Our issues in equality must be fixed first.
- Where we go depends on how effective we can be.
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