The entropy of the universe, and the logic that you can't create things that can't exist.

I was thinking about this earlier. Usually the size of the universe is supposed to overwhelm you, but I think I'm starting to find it comforting. Like, we exist, and all the rest of the universe does too. Conscious or unconscious, it's our 'little' Club Of Things That Exist. So, even if our planet was blinked out- our galaxy even- there would still be lots of existence left. There would still be something doing something. And that's comforting, and somehow... not impersonal.

I guess it's like feeling at one with the universe.

I was thinking about this earlier. Usually the size of the universe is supposed to overwhelm you, but I think I'm starting to find it comforting. Like, we exist, and all the rest of the universe does too. Conscious or unconscious, it's our 'little' Club Of Things That Exist. So, even if our planet was blinked out- our galaxy even- there would still be lots of existence left. There would still be something doing something. And that's comforting, and somehow... not impersonal.

I guess it's like feeling at one with the universe.

Yeah, and this thread is for stuff that replaces that feeling of being one in the crowd with the crowd being small in an unpopulated world; only the crowd are all infertile, and thus one day the whole world will not sport life.

Quote from: Elegiac on October 14, 2015, 01:06:01 PM

I was thinking about this earlier. Usually the size of the universe is supposed to overwhelm you, but I think I'm starting to find it comforting. Like, we exist, and all the rest of the universe does too. Conscious or unconscious, it's our 'little' Club Of Things That Exist. So, even if our planet was blinked out- our galaxy even- there would still be lots of existence left. There would still be something doing something. And that's comforting, and somehow... not impersonal.

I guess it's like feeling at one with the universe.

Yeah, and this thread is for stuff that replaces that feeling of being one in the crowd with the crowd being small in an unpopulated world; only the crowd are all infertile, and thus one day the whole world will not sport life.

So you're not thinking of a feel-good typa small, huh.

Quote from: eggsalad on October 14, 2015, 01:12:22 PM

It's going to look small in some contexts unless there was literally an infinite array of celestial bodies for us to not be able to quantify. I say celestial bodies specifically here because I know fuck all about the actual amount of energy and matter in existence. Quantum background fuzz and relativity make it hard for me to just think that there is X amount of energy and X amount of matter in existence.

yfw there exists a mechanism for conversion of matter to energy and vice-versa

iknowiwasjustsayingthatIdontunderstandparticlephysicswellenoughokayleavemealone;_;

What? That doesn't make any sense...

Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on October 14, 2015, 01:03:45 PM

What? That doesn't make any sense...

What doesn't make sense is his idea of a joke.

Quote from: Desty on October 14, 2015, 02:03:43 PM

Quote from: Carsonogen on October 14, 2015, 01:58:47 PM

Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on October 14, 2015, 01:03:45 PM

What? That doesn't make any sense...

What doesn't make sense is his idea of a joke.

You guys never have seen Black Science Guy before?

I have.

just not in a banter mood