The universe is truly a vast place, but have you ever asked how big is it? This is one of the fundamental questions to astrophysics, and a question impossible to answer. Still, scientists still try their best in trying to find the answer.
"That may be something that we actually never know," Sarah Gallagher, an astrophysicist at Western University in Ontario, Canada, told Live Science.
But how do scientists solve for the answer to one of the biggest (literally) questions man can ask? They have a few tricks up their sleeve. Unfortunately, even with these tricks, they still can’t answer the question.
Some say that the universe is infinite, while others say that it is finite. Both of them, however, agree on this one: the universe is “really freaking huge.”
See the full story over at the site.
(Image Credit: NASA/ ESA Hubble Space Telescope)
Newest 3 Comments
Douglas Adams was a gem. HG2G is one of my all-time favorite books!
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)
"Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space."The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)
Picture a Hot Dog Bun
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)