Sunday, May 23, 2010

Life, the Universe and Everything

Just watching Stephen Hawking's show The Story of Everything. Holy cow! It totally boggles the mind thinking about the creation of the universe.

All the material of the Universe contained within 1 single atom? Inconceivable!

3 comments:

John said...

Since there was no concept of space before the thing blew up, its size is irrelevant. I mean, until the big bang, it was the biggest thing in the universe, innit?

Chad said...

True, but everything in the universe packed into 1 atom? Obviously the sheer amount of energy required to power the entire universe is bigger than the size of an atom.

...or is it?

John said...

you can't really think of it as an atom. It's a one dimensional point that suddenly became 3 dimensional and realized it couldn't fit in that space anymore