Does the vastness/ science of the universe scare you?

[CrazyOldMe]

Black holes, comets, galaxies... it all makes my lil head hurt! The vastness of everything surrounding us is terrifying though!

At the same time, I love it! I want to know as much as my limits will allow me.

Does anyone understand how it all works? Or how a lay person can start to understand it?

I am aware of it and interested in it, but not scared by it.

I find it mindblowingly exciting to find out all about the universe and its mysteries - especially the stuff that even the scientists don't understand.

I have never given it a second thought in my entire life. I simply don't have the processing capacity or interest to even try.

I find it fascinating but the never ending of it stresses my brain out. It can't end but how can it not? If it does end then what's beyond the end? Nothing? The nothingness that never ends?

Space is freaky as fuck. I went to a Brian Cox live talk once and it was mind blowing (v. good). I don't think I can comprehend space to any significant degree. It doesn't scare me as such, I find it sort of reassuring how inconsequential I am in terms of the universe.

Totally agree. That's what I can never get my head around - there had to be an end to it at some point but then what's after that??? My mind just cannot process it at all

I love thinking about the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. It makes me feel insignificant but is also comforting. In the grand scheme of things we are less than speck of dust in a fleeting moment of time.

I also went to a Brian Cox show and he said there are more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand on Earth.

I love it, and it also makes me want to vomit.

One of my worst nightmares would to be out on say a cruise ship in the middle of the sea at night. I honestly think I'd have a panic attack at the thought of what could be underneath the ship and how far from land we would be. Saying that I'm even too scared to go any deeper than knee height into the sea on holiday so clearly I have ocean-related issues!

Yes!!!

As a child I couldn't accept that space is infinite. I wanted to know what is past that. And tgen past that ......

I love it . Sometimes I go and stand outside in the garden and just feel at peace with all the stars and darkness. The moon feels like an old friend and I just feel so calm and at peace.

Yes. The moon and the stars and to a certain point galaxies I’m ok with, I loved going to the planetarium as a kid. But anymore advanced than that I freak out…. It’s such a head spinning, existential crisis inducing concept for me.

The deep sea freaks me out a little too as a pp said. But as it’s finite I am more ok with it than space.

thalassophobia

Yes, I get vertigo when I think about it. Fascinating though.

It absolutely terrifies me.

I understand a lot of it as astronomy has always been something that I follow. What is actually scary is the fact that everything moving away from each other at unfathomable speed,so as time passes our sky will get darker and darker as there will be fewer stars. We are lucky to be alive now,if humankind came a few billon years later we wouldn't have these many stars to look at and there wouldn't be any way to know that the universe was out there,as too far away to know that it exists. Space exploration in warp speed wouldn't even let us find the next star.Heat Death of the universe is the Eldritch horror.

No, I find it incredible. It's beyond my understanding but it awesome me.

I also find it comforting to know my life is ultimately meaningless.

Same! DH tries to tell me stuff and I just want to stick my fingers in my ears and shout LALALALALAAAAA.
sometimes I do 😆

I recently went to see someone who explains things well. He isn't a scientist, he is a normal person with a special interest. Made comparisons with every day things. Like 3 moons fit into the size of earth . How long/far a light year is and h9w many years it woukd take us to travel to the sun on a road in a camper van. I found that fascinating and brings more into perspective for the lay person. I bought his book. He is on social media as 'virtualastro'

I love it. It’s also frustrating that I’ll never know much about what is out there. What really blows my mind is the Why?

It's just the not knowing what the hell it all actually is, and that I'll definitely, and mankind, possibly will never know.

Is this isn't it. The never knowing. What's it all for. If the Big Bang started everything then...nope. My head freezes at that even now. What was before the Big Bang? Something must have been. I can't compute it.

And then I start thinking about time.

Scare me? No. Blow my mind, absolutely!

And when our world ends and turns to dust then there will be nothing living’ in the entire universe yet the universe will still do its thing, I often think what’s the point of it all?

Get yourself over to the National Space Centre in Leicester it's amazing for this stuff

That's what I think. I'll get up tomorrow, go to work, rush around all day trying to sort out kids and life admin. Collapse stressed and tired at the end of the day and think WHY. Why am I here? Why am I alive? What is the point of any of it.