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Alucard661 t1_it58t03 wrote

Reply to comment by friedeggsandtoast in The Webb Space Telescope Sees a Solar System's Beginning by footinch

Ah don’t worry man, in the scale of the universe you’re an insignificant piece of dust (you) in an insignificant piece of dust (earth), in an insignificant piece of dust(solar system), in an insignificant piece of dust (milky way Galaxy).

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konnektion t1_it5g1eh wrote

Heck, even our own Laniakea Supercluster (of which the Milky Way is only one of 100,000 other galaxies included in it) is probably only one of 10 millions in the universe.

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winterblink t1_it5gak0 wrote

And that’s not even getting into all the other universes.

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Solid_Veterinarian81 t1_it5gp1e wrote

Well we don't know shit about other universes they might not even have galaxies if they exist. But there are around 10 million superclusters in our observable universe... the actual extent of the universe is most likely infinite

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quadriplegic_cheetah t1_it63yuo wrote

It’s all relative. To the bacteria that call your digestive system home. To the viruses that come in contact with you. To the molecules that make these creatures up. And the atoms and subatomic particles that are the building blocks of matter.

You are their universe.

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millennial_burnout t1_it6y9jt wrote

This is why I sometimes wonder if the universe that we know is just a small piece of something bigger

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wanderingconspirator t1_it76ue0 wrote

We are their universe, but we have a known (to us) boundary or size. What if the universe really is infinite? What if it doesn’t just go on forever, but actually has no boundary? Just actually infinite

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quadriplegic_cheetah t1_it7axmp wrote

I mean the same can be said in reverse. It’s entirely possible that you can infinitely zoom in on the world just like how one could infinitely zoom out.

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