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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Each galaxy is a neuron of God's mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought of this on the toilet when I was 14

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, Neil degrasse Tyson

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't take a scientist to think about. We learn in middle school, atoms are mostly empty space, we learn small electrons revolve around a larger nucleus. All it takes a little imagination to put two and two together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, we all learned it, you're not special. I was calling you pretentious, not smart lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

So why is it keeping anyone up at night?

Edit: me not being special was my point, are you alright?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm alright, just misunderstood your original comment and tried to make a joke, my bad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

There are better manners to avoid the sleep

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There was a guy on the net years ago who claimed that the entire universe is an electron on a plutonium atom. He made a religion out of it, wrote hymns to the atom (or, more precisely, changed the words of Christian hymns, clumsily fitting in references to plutonium atoms) and even legally changed his name to Archimedes Plutonium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I always find it fascinating how specific those theories become. Want to believe that our universe is just some sort of quark in a bigger universe we can't know anything about? Fine. Doesn't make terribly much sense, but what does at that scale anyway? But then going on and being sure that that bigger thing must be Plutonium? Why? How?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

With a name like that I imagine his cause of death might be in the radioactive “bathtub” of a nuclear rod cooling pool

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

That sounds like something out of a fallout fanfiction

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Look, I'm not saying our universe exists as a node in an infinite fractal of repeating universes, but one of these is the largest structure we can see and another is the smallest:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Voroni pattern. It shows up in nature all the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

First time I heard of this, super neat, thanks for sharing. Found a good article here:

https://builtin.com/data-science/voronoi-diagram

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's what the universes above and below us say too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

As above, so below

"Quod est superius est sicut quod inferius, et quod inferius est sicut quod est superius."

"That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

what's the small one?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Atoms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I think the top is the small one because you zoom in really far on small things in rectangles. And the bottom is the universe because it's a distorted view of a sphere, like our full view around us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The little '3' at the bottom right. That's where the turtles live

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

God doesn't play dice but he sure does repeat the same tune. I believe this same pattern is observable in our brains when neurons fire is it not?

There's probably some math which explains the consistency of the pattern.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What is the average length of something very small (Plank length, electron penis, whatever) and the biggest thing (observable universe distance, actual universe length) ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully around 6 inches otherwise I'm screwed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Around here we use the metric system. You've been downgraded to 6 cm

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

The galaxy is in Orion's belt.

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