Putting things into perspective

PAULT · 28 Apr, 2020, 04:14:46 PM

Look at this persons twitter account to put things into perspective and realise how miniscule we are
https://twitter.com/physicsJ

FOGGY · 29 Apr, 2020, 09:41:55 AM

Best analogy I've seen for a mind boggling fact.
Another is infinity, you can see this if you hold a mirror in front of a mirror and look down the tunnel of reflections.

frankie · 29 Apr, 2020, 10:00:32 AM

WOW! Just WOW!!!

PAULT · 29 Apr, 2020, 10:59:13 AM

The thing about handling a piece of nose shield from the space shuttle which has been heated to
2100 degrees with bare hands is quite something

FOGGY · 29 Apr, 2020, 03:38:30 PM

What a amazing product but ultra fragile !!!!!
What's the chances of the moon being so positioned that it is exactly the same size as the sun at the time of a total Solar eclipse, infinitesimal....

Mullberry · 30 Apr, 2020, 08:11:39 AM

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-three million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." – Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Judi_bk · 30 Apr, 2020, 08:31:57 AM

FOGGY · 30 Apr, 2020, 09:31:00 AM

PAULT · 30 Apr, 2020, 11:42:25 AM

Great reply

Marcus · 30 Apr, 2020, 01:15:24 PM

Excellent Pault. I will be following Dr.James from now.

Marcus · 30 Apr, 2020, 05:19:23 PM

Even during quarantine we're all travelling. Go to visit James for a summary of your velocities in the universe relative to some nearby cosmic markers. Nothing is truly at rest ...heh forum browsers