A blog dedicated to posts about my thoughts as an agnostic atheist and scientist.
I would love if the universe would sign an autograph for me. :D
Hahahahaha!! I LOVE this! :D
Do you understand how big the universe is? It’s been expanding in all directions for 13.7 billion years. That means that even if it was expanding at walking speed, it would STILL be incomprehensibly huge.
Saying there’s no other life in it is like seeing a photograph of a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert, and concluding that because there is no life in the photograph, there is no life in the Sahara.
Which is still a bad comparison because the Sahara is only 3,320,000 square miles. One grain of sand is probably a higher percentage of that desert than the percentage of the universe we’ve explored.
This is perhaps the best thing ever about being an atheist. Whatever I find through science or inquiry goes. I don’t feel threatened by the unknown of what I might find; I feel free and whole now more than ever. If I find out that my life is truly incredibly insignificant in the scheme of things, I don’t care. I will simply relish in the fact that I am alive and discovering the very properties of reality and the cosmos. It seriously gives me chills and a thrilling sensation. :)
(via aninterestingdebate)
This article describes how it is theorized that the total energy in the universe is 0. Also hypothesized is a mechanism through which the universe may have began. It’s based on empirical evidence of particles and antiparticles spontaneously entering and vanishing from existence, according to the article.
Budget Video 2013
O___O YEAAAAHHH!!! This is so exciting for me! I really want to have an internship with NASA sophomore year for sure now! Science has such potential during my lifetime, and physics and math being the subjects I’m studying, I’m feeling really excited about my future now!
*dances with excitement
Okay. Maybe I am a bit obsessive about science… I just love it so much…
(via autumn-faery)
Gods favorite
I needed to open the image in a new tab and zoom in, but yes, this is a very good image and point. I’m still staring at the universes artist’s conception… very cool. :)
“Our story is the story of the universe. Every piece of everyone, of everything you love and everything you hate, of the thing you hold most precious, was assembled by the forces of nature in the first few minutes of the life of the universe, transformed in the hearts of the stars or created in their fiery deaths.
And when you die, those pieces will be returned to the universe in the endless cycle of death and rebirth. What a wonderful thing it is to be part of that universe. And what a story, what a majestic story.”Professor Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe.
(via thenewenlightenmentage)
