This story is reposted with permission from Chris with some minor contributions from myself. I wanted to write on this subject, but I think I’d probably have ended up writing nearly the same thing.

Try to imagine the most vast amount of space your brain can conceptualize at once, the universe is billions and billion times bigger than that. The universe …is huge.

This page has some images that try to give some sense to the sizes depicted : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Supercluster . (I couldn’t link the image alone, the lightbox plugin kept trying to grab it)

I think that a lot of people might not quite understand the scale of just how massive it really is. It’s mind-boggling!

Here’s some trivia and information that might help to put it into some kind pf perspective…

First, we have the Earth. It’s about 25,000 miles in circumference. A bit long for a Sunday drive.
To really measure distances on the scale we’ll be working with, we need something a little longer than a mile. We’d be working with trillions of trillions of miles, otherwise…

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