"Sizing Up The Universe" is a new National Geographic book on astronomy. While the book is loaded with many beautiful pictures, as one would expect from a National Geographic book, it also answers in some detail several fundamental questions: from small to big, what is out there in the universe, how big are those things, and how far away are they? In fact, the book does more than answer these questions; it explains how astronomers figured out the answers. To this end, the book starts with a survey of what we see when we look at the night sky, both with and without a telescope. It then explains in some detail how astronomers figured out how far away those things are starting with the Moon, the Sun, and the planets and extending to the farthest reaches of our visible universe. Finally, the authors take the reader on a "journey in scale" starting with size comparisons in our own Solar System and then progressively jumping up in size by factors of 1000 until the entire visible universe can be illustrated on a single page of the book.
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Truly amazing! In all senses of the term!
If we come to the Big Bang, so we, as Earth and the Sun, and all our constellations nearby, which explains why we are so far these events?
Since there is nothing faster than the speed of light, which explains why we are so far these phenomena now being discovered by the Hubble? This situation does not suggest a paradox? If we are so far apart, then we would be traveling faster than the speed of light? We and our universe?
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Google "brane worlds theory", one of the latest views of physics and parallel universes in a string theory paradigm. We are all eternal, we can never be created or destroyed in a closed system, as Eisntein showed with energy and mass (e=mc2). Planets such as Earth are merely training grounds for young gods. Those who master this estate will be compatible with higher places and societies. If you don't have a sense of mission yet, you better get with it.
God bless you digital explorers ... you rule!
Then of course another war could take them all away again.
i need a new one for christmas ...
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Go to NASA website much better stuff, and less Photoshopped.