Re:Carbon's interstellar journey to Earth
by jjbinx007 on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:10PM
(#26704774)
It is humbling and also rather difficult to get one's head around.
However, when you consider the observable universe is 96bn light-years across and contains hundreds of billions of galaxies, and the observable universe is very likely only a small part of the universe beyond then incredibly unlikely-sounding things will happen all the time somewhere and some when.
It's amazing we know so much considering most of our knowledge about the universe has arisen in the last c.300 years.
However, when you consider the observable universe is 96bn light-years across and contains hundreds of billions of galaxies, and the observable universe is very likely only a small part of the universe beyond then incredibly unlikely-sounding things will happen all the time somewhere and some when.
It's amazing we know so much considering most of our knowledge about the universe has arisen in the last c.300 years.