Submitted by eharnett on Sat, 09/22/2007 - 11:37am.
Of course I've always known that the universe was big, however after we discussed it in class this week I realized how big it was, and it was very overwhelming.
However I also thought it was strange when we talked about how the Universe has a diameter of 10-15 billion light years. I always thought that the universe was never ending...but this came as a bit of a shock to me. How could the universe have a limit? I always depended on it being never ending-that’s what the Universe means to me whenever I think about it. So to think of the Universe as having a limit is sort of contradictory to what I know.
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Of course I've always known that the universe was big, however after we discussed it in class this week I realized how big it was, and it was very overwhelming.
However I also thought it was strange when we talked about how the Universe has a diameter of 10-15 billion light years. I always thought that the universe was never ending...but this came as a bit of a shock to me. How could the universe have a limit? I always depended on it being never ending-that’s what the Universe means to me whenever I think about it. So to think of the Universe as having a limit is sort of contradictory to what I know.