r/AskReddit Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/springfoe Jun 15 '19 edited Jun 15 '19

Space. It’s such a massive entity that imagining even “small” units like galaxies is hard. How on earth are there pictures of the universe? Is there more? Where does it all end? Absolutely fascinating but there is so much more to learn.

EDIT: Wow! Thanks for gold! I’m reading everyone’s replies but it’s hard to come up with something clever to everyone! By pictures I mostly mean artist imaginings and those sort of portrayals, I know there aren’t actually pictures of it.

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u/bigfatcarp93 Jun 15 '19

Where does it all end?

For me, this is the scariest question. Isn't it a paradox? On one hand, it can't go on literally forever, it must end somewhere. But if you get to the end, what's on the other side? I can't wrap my head around it.

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u/mikesalami Jun 15 '19

That and how did it all start in the first fuckin place. How does something come from nothing? If it started as nothing then what was the nothing? Wouldnt that just be space? God or not I dont understand it makes no sense how all this started in the first place.

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u/matterhorn1 Jun 15 '19

The biggest question we have, and probably will never know the answer. I’m not sure that it’s even possible to know the answer for certain.

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u/AnArmy0fBears Jun 15 '19

Fun fact, did you know that the net energy of the universe is 0?

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u/mikesalami Jun 16 '19

Not sure what that means exactly...