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I was doing some research on Wikipedia about nothing in particular (who actually goes there with a specific purpose in mind anyways), and I got to learning about this thing called the Sloan Great Wall. They had barely any information about it on Wikipedia itself, so I did some of my own research into to the topic, and it's roughly the coolest thing ever.
So basically, the Sloan Great Wall is the Largest Thing Ever. As in there is nothing larger in the universe. It is a giant wall of intertwined and interconnected galaxies and stars about a billion light years away (something like 5,878,482,084,580,000,000,000 miles) and about 1.6 billion light years wide, which is equivalent to about 9,405,571,335,328,000,000,000 miles. Imagine that, an object so wide, that moving at the speed of light, it would take as long as it has taken life to evolve from single celled algae here on earth, to cross the entire thing. Stuff like that is so fucking awesome because it's so fucking ridiculous. I love learning really cool stuff about space.
Another really cool thing I was learning about are quasars. Quasars are giant masses that are really, really far away from earth, close to the partical horizon, or the theoretical (and for all intents and purposes, the physical) edge of the universe. They are up to 13 billion light years away. 13 billion. Light years. That is 76,420,267,099,540,000,000,000 miles away. The fact that the radiation from them has taken 13 billion years to get to earth, and the current estimated age of the universe itself is around 13 billion years, that means that this is stuff from the very, very beginning of time. Anyways, these masses, quasars, give off SO MUCH ENERGY that we can still detect them, even though they are 76 sextillion miles away. Imagine how much energy that is! It's incomprehensible!
Stuff like that makes me think that science doesn't disprove a higher power at all, rather it removes all doubt that there must be one.
So basically, the Sloan Great Wall is the Largest Thing Ever. As in there is nothing larger in the universe. It is a giant wall of intertwined and interconnected galaxies and stars about a billion light years away (something like 5,878,482,084,580,000,000,000 miles) and about 1.6 billion light years wide, which is equivalent to about 9,405,571,335,328,000,000,000 miles. Imagine that, an object so wide, that moving at the speed of light, it would take as long as it has taken life to evolve from single celled algae here on earth, to cross the entire thing. Stuff like that is so fucking awesome because it's so fucking ridiculous. I love learning really cool stuff about space.
Another really cool thing I was learning about are quasars. Quasars are giant masses that are really, really far away from earth, close to the partical horizon, or the theoretical (and for all intents and purposes, the physical) edge of the universe. They are up to 13 billion light years away. 13 billion. Light years. That is 76,420,267,099,540,000,000,000 miles away. The fact that the radiation from them has taken 13 billion years to get to earth, and the current estimated age of the universe itself is around 13 billion years, that means that this is stuff from the very, very beginning of time. Anyways, these masses, quasars, give off SO MUCH ENERGY that we can still detect them, even though they are 76 sextillion miles away. Imagine how much energy that is! It's incomprehensible!
Stuff like that makes me think that science doesn't disprove a higher power at all, rather it removes all doubt that there must be one.