how do u no we r not on like a tiny pin as a peice of dust or nuttin like our universe is a tiny spec of dust in sum

Question: how do u no we r not on like a tiny pin as a peice of dust or nuttin like our universe is a tiny spec of dust in sum randooom uninverse outside i hav ben waitin for dis answers since i waz 3 yearz old and i will like die if i dnt find out in it u got bbm?
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  space,
  universe
Asked by sciencelover123 to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 19 Jun 2011.
- Sarah Thomas answered on 16 Jun 2011:
  
  Haha this is an awesome question!!
  
  The universe is unimaginably HUGE! So I think we are pretty much just like a grain of sand in a vast desert.
  
  I try not to worry about stuff like that too much, and just concentrate on my own like and how I can do something meaningful with it.
- Tim Millar answered on 16 Jun 2011:
  
  We don’t! Our Universe could be one of just many sitting on pins like tiny specs of dust. Hopefully no-one comes along with the Hoover and makes us all disappear up into the great vacuum bag in the sky.
- Dalya Soond answered on 16 Jun 2011:
  
  We may be. The problem of perspective plagues scientists -even though we are meant to base everythign on evidence- just like it plagues anyone forming an opinion. In any case it is clear that we are only a small part of our planet and our planet is only a small part of the universe.
- Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 16 Jun 2011:
  
  Scale is relative. Ants must have a different perspective on the world to us. Their relative scale of gravity is different and their relative physical strengths are also very different. As you look through the microscope, there are a host of worlds at the very small.
  
  And sure, going out the other way it is the same thing.
  
  I refer you to a famous photograph, called “Pale Blue Dot”… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_blue_dot
  
  When you look at that photograph our planet looks so insignificant, doesn’t it. As we zoom out it would become smaller and smaller and more and more insignificant.
  
  You might like to have a look at this: https://www.crazygames.com/game/scale-of-the-universe-2
  
  It let’s you zoom in and out at all different scales. Very interesting (but a but humbling too).
- Tom Crick answered on 19 Jun 2011:
  
  Maybe we are! We could be part of the multiverse, where our universe is one of an infinite possibilities of universes…

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Derek commented on 16 Jun 2011:

I’d also strongly recommend that everyone reads the “Reflections by Sagan” on the Pale Blue Dot wikipedia page. It is very thought-provoking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_blue_dot#Reflections_by_Sagan

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Question: how do u no we r not on like a tiny pin as a peice of dust or nuttin like our universe is a tiny spec of dust in sum randooom uninverse outside i hav ben waitin for dis answers since i waz 3 yearz old and i will like die if i dnt find out in it u got bbm?