Caerwiden - "Aliens"

[evilbilbo]

Do you mean illegal immigrants or 'not of this world'?  That would be my first question.  I choose to think the later is the more interesting to waffle about

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[caerwiden]

:)

I meant outer-space dudes, aye.

Thank you!

[evilbilbo]

I think I got a little distracted from that when I hit the ecosystems. It was also late and I was tired. But I hope it did as an answer.

[westslide]

The stuff about the universe being infinite just blows my mind over and over, every time I think about it or read it. I remember being completely knocked for six the first time I came across the theory of the Big Bang and the theoretical Big Crunch - not those themselves, but the idea that a Crunch will be followed by another Bang. That this shit happens OVER AND OVER... I mean, the time frame between a Bang and a Crunch is already insanely beyond our comprehension.

On the one hand these are thoughts which make us feel crazy insignificant, the smallest of gnats in the greatest workings of all of reality, and then on the other hand, oddly proud that we are beginning to grasp even the faintest understanding of these impossibly huge processes.

[evilbilbo]

Some define the universe as everything, and others at the point at which the mater and enegery of the Big Bang have currently expanded to.
Hence I went with exsistance rather than universe.
But yeah I know what you mean.
Reality is amazing.

[the_fnords]

Most people react to this kind of thought by going "...whoa" and getting distracted by thoughts that fit wholly and comfortably in our brains.

Lovecraft reacted by trying to fit it all in his brain and being terrified that it could not fit, and then gibbering was followed by writing of horror.

I'm glad I do not have lovecraft's gifts.

[evilbilbo]

Technically I should use the descriptor of finite but unbounded but that tends to get 'huh' and derailment as I explain that one using usually the analogy of a mobius strip. Plus it complicates the maths.