If you've ever been in doubt regarding the sheer immensity of the universe, check out this paragraph regarding a recent birth of a black hole:
It took the light of GRB 080319B about 7.4 billion years to reach Earth, placing the explosion "more than halfway back to the Big Bang and the origin of our universe," Grindlay wrote in an editorial accompanying a new study of the burst in the Sept. 10 issue of the journal Nature.
This means that the explosion happened 3 billion years before the sun or Earth even formed, Grindlay added.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,421612,00.html
And here we're talking about something that happened in the visible universe.. there's so much we can't observe either because it's so far away or because the very laws of physics don't allow it.
It took the light of GRB 080319B about 7.4 billion years to reach Earth, placing the explosion "more than halfway back to the Big Bang and the origin of our universe," Grindlay wrote in an editorial accompanying a new study of the burst in the Sept. 10 issue of the journal Nature.
This means that the explosion happened 3 billion years before the sun or Earth even formed, Grindlay added.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,421612,00.html
And here we're talking about something that happened in the visible universe.. there's so much we can't observe either because it's so far away or because the very laws of physics don't allow it.







