By volume our Sun is 1000000 timers bigger than the Earth…The sun in turn is 2100 times smaller than VY Canis Majoris - the largest star in the universe. Or to put in differently…It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 quadrillion) Earths to fill the volume of VY Canis Majoris.
The Sun with its 8 circling planets is a star in a galaxy (a cluster of stars) called The Milky Way. Number of stars in The Milky Way - 300 billion. How many galaxies are there in the observable universe? Around 100 billion.
Total number of stars in the observable universe: 300 billion x 100 billion = 30 sextillion.
Here’s a huge (!) image of a small part of the observable part of the universe…every single bright dot is a galaxy.
As if that’s not silly enough listen to this:
Almost every object observable from the Earth seems to be made of matter rather than antimatter. Many scientists believe that this preponderance of matter over antimatter (known as baryon asymmetry) is the result of an imbalance in the production of matter and antimatter particles in the early universe, in a process called baryogenesis. The amount of matter presently observable in the universe only requires an imbalance in the early universe on the order of one extra matter particle per billion matter-antimatter particle pairs.
…or in plain English…the observable part of the universe is the result of the formation of 1000000001 matter particles for every 1000000000 antimatter particle formed.
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And now to something completely different:
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And while we’re at it, the moon could be getting some serious competition if Betelgeuse blows up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse#Fate
Holy smokes…wouldn’t that be cool!!!!
Respected Scientists, I want to know “Is Big Bang a Truth or Fallacy? How this universe started ?(if it was not always there)and more so why? what was the starting cause and what was before this universe not existed? Sirs, Kindly give me a suitable reply, please and I’m obliged for ever.
Regards, JKR
How do you count all the stars in space?
Good question Pritam…I believe they surveying a small patch of the sky and the multiply…but that’s just me guessing
To know how the universe and all the stars etc came into existance. Read the first chapter of Bible. It is easy.
“To know how the universe and all the stars etc came into existance. Read the first chapter of Bible. It is easy.”
…easy to read indeed and complete utter laughable non-sense. But…I respect your conviction…just like one must respect people who believe in unicorns, elfs, Bigfoot and Nessie…
it’s cool na. the sky,the universe
1st to JKR- The “Big Bang Theory” hasn’t happened yet. It will not happen until God destroys this curent heaven and earth and creates a new one. Hope that helps.
2nd to Madsen-”…easy to read indeed and complete utter laughable non-sense. But…I respect your conviction…just like one must respect people who believe in First of all you are showing your ignorance, No disres[ect intended. The reason you can’t understand it and that it is non-sense to you is that you ae not saved by our one and only Saviour and have repented to the LORD God and you cannot understand the Bible scripture without the Holy Spirit to guide you. It will be total nonsense. I am sorry for you and even though don’t know you or your real name, God does and I will pray that someday, before it is too late that you will come to God and understand these truths.
@Rhonda: How convienient! If I feel the Bible is utter nonsense it’s because the The Holy Spirit isn’t guiding me?! What an easy way to handle criticism. The Bible is full of contradictions…read it and you’ll see.
Madsen in reply to ur comment, isnt it easy to dismiss the bible despite the fact you have no actual opposing argument, just a lack of faith and understanding. It may supprise u but most ‘Christians’ spend much of their time reading the bible meditating on the words and learning.
Perhaps next time u wish to enter into a discussion regarding faith and/or theory u bring some formulated argument that consists of more than ” I dont believe what u believe but I believe your wrong,umm no I dont know what I believe” cos that pretty much sums up ur entire ‘arguement’ Ignorance is never an excuse for empty meaningless ‘gum flapping’ “now go forth and MULTIPLY” ur words into something cohesive !
Hi Dee…Thx for your comment. I do have opposing arguments, I just didn’t write them in my comment…Actually I don’t know where to start really. I could start with the concept of Hell…A place of eternal pain and suffering…eternal punishment…where nonbelievers and unrepentant sinners will burn…not for 5 minutes…not for a year…no…they will burn in all eternity…if we’re to believe what the Bible says and what most Christians are told again and again. I’d like to tell you about a friend of mine…She’s a doctor and works for the Médecins Sans Frontières organization…which means she travels to most dangerous places on the face of the planet to help people in need (risking her own life). She’s also incredibly kind and sweet…tolerant…hospitable…careing…she’s just kind to everyone she meets…you know…a really really good person in every sense of the word. But…she’s an atheist…She doesn’t talk about it, but if someone asks she’ll tell them she doesn’t believe in a divine being…According to Christian beliefs…after she dies…after helping (and saving) who knows how many people…after living a life of doing good and being on heck of good person…she’ll burn in Hell in all eternity! Why? Not because of what she did towards her fellow human beings! Because she didn’t BELIEVE! Why is that so important? Why isn’t it enough (for God), that she did good and was a sweet, caring and good person? And does the punishment equal the “crime”…ehhh…no! You’ll probably tell me, that we’re all born sinners, so that even though she was a good person, she was also a sinner…and ohh…Jesus took her sins upon him and therefore she…well…better believe in him…she owns him that much right?! The concept of sin, hell, paradise, condemnation and what have we, are manufactured so to speak…manmade…to scare people into believing…nothing else…
I could go on and on and on…the list is literally endless…virgin births…coming back from the dead…miraculous cures…Noahs Ark…etc etc…
Here you go…you asked for something more cohesive…
thats a very usual misconception. noone ‘earns’ a place in heaven as hard as it maybe for anyone to accept the ONLY requirement for ‘getting into heaven’ is acceptance of Jesus. I wont bore u with the reams of quotes but the Bible shows more than once we are ’saved’ by Gods love and grace not by ‘works’. Entrance into heaven is really the only true example of ‘a free lunch’ everything else costs something. God makes no demands except repent and be baptised.
It also shows us to respect the God given ‘free will’ its ur God given right to believe what u like as it is mine.
Respecting people who believe in ‘virgin births and Unicorns should be no more difficult to accept than people who believe in evolution and ‘missing links’ each to their own and all deserving of respect.
I would also like to thank your friend for her giving nature, she has made her life a life worth living, sadly not everyone can or will do the same. regardless of ’spiritual belief system’, she is amazing!
And thank you for the reply
God saves us because of his love and grace…as long as we believe in him? Why would that be important to an omnipotent deity…that I or any other believe in his existance? The notion that you can live your life as an evil bastard, then repent and live to eternity, while your fellow human being who lives a good and decent life, but is a nonbeliever goes to Hell to be tormented for all eternity is just absurd. You really didn’t address what I wrote earlier…Is it fair…or is it a benevolent God who decides not to save a good person (a person like my friend I mentioned earlier) just because that individual doesn’t believe in Him (or Her)?
Regarding respecting other peoples beliefs…No problem with that…as long they (people of faith) respect people who doesn’t believe or people who chooses to live their lives as they feel is right…e.g. repect their right to chose their own partner (man/man, man/woman, woman/woman)…people who choses to have premarital sex and what not. Now that’s hardly the case is it? Nonbelievers or people who deviate from the “right path” are constantly oppressed and brutalized by people of faith for not living up to a certain set of rules…I’ve travelled through the US Midwest a couple of times…the “Bible Belt” where evangelical Christians stand very strong…Let me just say I’ve heard a lot of hate speaches from these people.
I respect that some people believe in elfs, unicorn, The Christian God, astrology etc…I see them as equally plausible…there’s as much evidence for the exsistence of elfs as there is for The Christian God.
You can prove that multiple changes in inherited traits occur in populations over time…therefore it makes sense to “believe” in evolution…just like it makes sense to believe in gravity.
I’ll let my friend (Inge) know you said thanks
She is indeed doing an incredible job…A couple of years ago she and two other doctors travelled to a very poor rural part of Bolivia to work for a year…When the year had passed the infant mortality rate in that region had dropped by 50%…Just how awesome is that?!
Thx for dropping by and contributing…appreciated!
P.S. Please disregard bad spelling and bad grammar…English is not my mother tongue….
Which is older the sun or canis majoris???????
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