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Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:45:35 UTC No. 16224937
Our Earth spins at 1,000 mph and travels around the Sun at 86,000 mph, and our Solar System travels at 450,000 mph around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and our galaxy travels at 1.3 million mph through the void of the cosmos. In short, big things move really fast.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:46:04 UTC No. 16224939
If you think about it, to a microbe we as humans are a planet. To a molecule, we are a solar system. To a particle, we are a galaxy.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:47:50 UTC No. 16224943
>>16224937
>everything is relative so if can just set the earth as the coordinate and it becomes stationary, while everything else move around the earth.
geocentrism reigns supreme again.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:51:04 UTC No. 16224951
>>16224943
Heck, maybe the void itself moves in a way that cancels out all the movements of our celestial body so we don't feel anything.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:54:52 UTC No. 16224959
>>16224937
Does this scale up to light speed for galactic clusters and even bigger objects?
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:57:44 UTC No. 16224969
>>16224959
Possibly. The cosmos is still expanding, right? However nothing is capable of exact light speed, only near.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 18:03:59 UTC No. 16224991
>>16224939
The grand irony most on /sci/ will never grasp. As we look into The Observable Universe it seems more and more we are just a microbe to something much bigger we can't understand. If we keep zooming out will we see a person 1 billion universe lengths tall? Yes, yes we will.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 18:05:28 UTC No. 16224999
>>16224959
>Does this scale up to light speed
Get this: one of the first things to exist in space/time was light. It's essentially pure energy which makes up pretty much everything we know in our universe. Energy itself travels incredibly fast, and light is just a slight variation of it.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 18:18:06 UTC No. 16225044
>>16224991
Time is also affected by the size of objects. If such a person were to exist, our universe let alone this galaxy wouldn't last the amount of time it takes them to blink.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 18:24:48 UTC No. 16225053
>>16224991
Eventually, we would. It might take significantly more than a billion though.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 18:40:28 UTC No. 16225078
>>16224939
Here is something even more mind blowing: whatever we can imagine, becomes our bigger reality
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 18:50:04 UTC No. 16225106
>>16225078
imagine each individual cell in our body imagined themselves assembling into a human that can imagine about each individual cell.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 18:52:29 UTC No. 16225112
>>16225106
Basically another way to describe the properties of physics.
Anonymous at Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:52:59 UTC No. 16226448
>>16224937
We're actually not moving. Everything is 'not moving' at different rates relative to one another.
Anonymous at Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:36:24 UTC No. 16228086
>>16224939
>To a particle, we are a galaxy.
I get your analogy, it delivered the concept, well done, but allow me to point out that the scalar gap between a subatomic particle and our human scale much larger than the scalar gap between us and a galaxy. In other words, there is "more space" into the tiny, than there is "space" out into the colossal.
Powers of Ten (1977) explains this.
Anonymous at Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:37:25 UTC No. 16228089
>>16228086
>human scale is much larger
FTFY