Sentences with phrase «how vast the universe»

I often find that the only way to truly fathom just how vast the universe is, or to successfully communicate the insane enormity of it to other people, is to illustrate just how small humanity is.

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I am pretty much with you in that, as humans, we don't have the know how or the mental capacity to even start to know anything about the vast universe.

just raise your head 45 degrees into the sky and be stunned from the creator, God, seeing the vast universe around us and how everything is calcuated in a precise way such that the whole universe is sustained.

If the vast universe we find ourselves within was created by an intelligent being, just imagine how intelligent the being that created that being must have been.

Actually, that is how the ancient Hebrews thought the «universe» was structured and it would have made more sense for their God to make something so economical rather than a super vast, almost completely empty expanse with us just a tiny island.

There appear to be no limits on how vast something can be or how small something can be in our physical universe.

No matter how much we learn and advance on all levels, we are but a tiny speck in this vast universe, hence a Higher Power, a Supreme Being, IS behind it all.

But when we look out from the earth to seek to understand the universe of which our planet is such an infinitesimal part, and to ask how it all began, we find ourselves in a bewilderingly vast space which just defies our imagination.

For example, since they all thought the Middle Ages believed the universe was small and cozy, we read the passage in Ptolemy's Almagest where he concludes that the universe is unimaginably vast, and calls the whole earth (which Eratosthenes had accurately measured as about 8,000 miles in diameter) a needle prick compared with the universe; and we read Boethius» Consolation of Philosophy, which popularized this idea; and even a typical sermon that used the idea to show how great God was to have created such an enormous universe.

Simulations of how large - scale cosmic structures form suggest that galaxies are connected by a vast network of dark matter, the evasive substance that makes up most of the universe's matter but interacts with regular matter only via gravity (SN Online: 10/11/17).

They should help us to hone descriptions of how, after the big bang, the universe grew from smaller than a proton into a vast expanse in less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

It is just the latest and most ambitious bid to study how the universe is expanding and tell us what the vast bulk of the cosmos is made of.

The only other option was to confront the vast nothingness and indifference of the universe and acknowledge how little time and space we take up in the grand scheme.

But given the vast size and age of the universe, I also knew how astronomically unlikely it was we would ever make contact with it, much less within the narrow window of my own lifetime.

If you choose to ignore growth stocks & investing, you're voluntarily cutting yourself off from vast swathes of the available investment universe — that's countless companies, entire sectors, new / disruptive business models & secular trends, even geographies, etc. you're missing out on, maybe forever... how does that make any sense?