• @banazir@lemmy.ml
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    3210 months ago

    The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

    Carl Sagan.

      • @Jax@sh.itjust.works
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        410 months ago

        Maybe he should try his hand at teaching too, it seems like he’s got a unique skill for simplifying complicated concepts.

  • @General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    1110 months ago

    I hate that this is popular. This is a creationist level understanding of the big bang.

    You ever use a spray can for a while and the can gets cold? It’s more like that.

  • Maeve
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    910 months ago

    Just recently mentioned the conscious universe theory in conversation with a friend.

    • @buttfarts@lemy.lol
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      10 months ago

      According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.

      The Chan School of Buddhism says that all phenomena are mind. There is nothing that is not mind. We, as humans, are a mind in a mind.

      • @portuga@lemmy.world
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        210 months ago

        No that’s not exactly right. It’s not that everything is only mind. Our subjective experience is only mind, you don’t actually see experience as it is but instead your experience of life is only mind in the sense it gets filtered by your sensory apparatus and hence it isn’t real as you don’t really sense reality as you are capable of. Doesn’t mean reality doesn’t exist if you’re not looking

  • @MadBob@feddit.nl
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    810 months ago

    The paragraphing has gone all the way through readable back to “I’m not reading this”.

  • @niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    But it wasn’t really an explosion, it was more like a spontaneous, insane inflation that found itself suddenly huge and empty, only after it was through with that particular stage did it zap itself full of energy and matter everywhere all at once. Then it continued growing in volume and thinning out via regular ol’ relativistic expansion.

    EDIT: looking a little bit closer, there’s the thing about zapping all over itself after Inflation, it was almost perfectly half-and-half matter/antimatter, which then proceeded to join and annihilate into pure energy, but for some reason probably related to the Weak Force, just a little bit more matter was created than antimatter.

    And that’s what we are and see today, 1 part out of every 8 million-and-one. For every 4,000,000 parts antimatter, there were 4,000,001 parts matter, only that 1 left over particle of matter, multiplied a bazillion times.

    That’s just a whole other level of amazing than just saying “an explosion”.