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About“Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”
— Richard Feynman
AuthorMusicPhotographyArchive— Richard Feynman
The NASA WMAP satellite estimates that the universe is 150 billion light years in diameter. Since the Earth’s diameter is 7,926.41 miles, it takes up 8.89x10^-22% of our universe’s space.Of course, this is probably a high estimation.
Let’s look at it in a different way. The entire history of the human race is contained in about .01% of the 13.7 billion year history of the universe.
From this angle, we already take up a minuscule amount of time and space…but there’s more. The most up to date version of superstring theory (M-theory) shows that there are 10^500 other universes. Here is an incomplete visual representation (I couldn’t type all the zeros) of how much space we take up in the system of multiverses: .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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Yes, we are completely insignificant in the grand scope of things. What’s amazing to me is that we evolved from stardust (carbon was produced from triple alpha processes inside stars and dispersed across the universe after supernova explosions) to be able to think about these things. I’m sure free will is an illusion, since we follow the same laws of the universe as anything else. We are just relatively larger. The sheer fact that we are able to (and “instinctively driven”) to ponder upon the grand questions of our universe is astounding to me. Man, we’re some pretty interesting robots.
We failed at forestry this weekend. It was really difficult, and we had to identify trees based on pictures of leaves and bark. There were almost no questions on the stuff that I had studied (such as measuring techniques like DBH, land distribution, how to measured in cords and board feet). So we basically failed at that. At least there were some parts about ecology on there (mostly stuff about ecological succession and biodiversity), and we got 100% on that. After that on Sunday, I had my interview for NSLI-Y, which went really well. I really hope I get the scholarship! On sunday, I worked on my essay on the benefits of Chinese urbanization for my English class. I started at 4:00PM and finished at 3:45AM. It was a pretty terrible night, to say the least. Yet, I am just happy that it is all done (it ended up being 12 pages total). Plus, the topic was interesting, so it wasn’t all that bad. Now I just have to finish that INTEL project…..
