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Our Galaxy Appears To Be Part Of Structure So Large It Challenges Our Models Of Cosmology (www.iflscience.com)
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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Pretty sure our entire universe is just a cell of a larger something. Or were in a simulation. Either way.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

"Everything is just a small version of something big!"

Finn

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. Infinitely large, infinitely small.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It’s a giant brain.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve thought this for ages myself also. Loved it when Men In Black kinda memed it also lol

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A while ago I had a mini existential crisis about how things existing at all just makes no sense, and eventually concluded that things existing at all means that "nothing" is in some way unnatural and has a chance to become matter, which would then imply infinite universes as there would have to be infinite "nothing", since that's what would be outside our universe.

So yea, I'm thinking it's probably large somethings for forever, always getting larger.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There's always a bigger ... Structure.