How does the understanding for the size of the world change one's thinking?
What was it like living on the Easter Island, the world a place you can walk around within a few days?
When Einstein developed general relativity, we did not know there were other galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
Most people today don't know how vast the Universe - and yet my own thinking is deeply shaped by being an astrophysicist, by the fact that we are just a tiny memory of a speckle of dust.
@vicgrinberg One thing that changed in my thinking after realizing the size of the universe: if there is an infinite number of galaxies and solar systems, then there must be other life forms out there. But at the same time these distances also guarantee that we will never "meet" them.
To me the age of the universe compared to the human existence is also quite overwhelming
There is a nice site "If the moon were only 1 pixel" that shows how huge our ("tiny") solar system already is.
Dr. Victoria Grinberg
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