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Originally Posted by raherakty
I hear that question a lot. The best answer I've ever heard is another question: what's north of the north pole? If we take the definition of the universe as everything that exists, it's sort of hard to then ask what exists outside of it. If we change the definition to be the region of space that encloses all the objects we can presently observe, then I suppose there could be things outside... but then it's really more of *a* universe than *the* universe.
Here's an animation I found that really blows my mind. Does a good job of highlighting just how small we really are. Definitely watch it to the end. Warning, it is about 1.2MB, may take a while to download on some connections. http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...2609635165.gif |
Wow..that kinda put things in perspective. I had no idea really how small we were.