If you are the kind of thinker that I hope reads this blog you will enjoy this kind of thing -- you are hopefully someone who enjoys getting as tired from a mental workout as much as a physical one...this page is definitely for you; it is about the relative scale of "things" in the universe.
Very slowly move the slider back and forth watch how quickly everything related to our insignificant Solar System flashes by (human-scale objects are just a quick blip, and are very easy to miss). When you get to a point just before the far right side of the scale...stop and think about what it says:
"The universe is 14,000,000,000 years old. If something were more than 14,000,000,000 light years away from us, it would take more than 14,000,000,000 years to reach us, which is more time than the universe has existed."
Brain hurt yet? Doesn't it feel GOOD?
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