The Most Important Info. that Few People Know
The Universe is 13.798 billion years
old. It is a sphere with an
calculated diameter of 93 billion light-years - most of that is not
observable. The observable Universe
consists of about 500 billion large galaxies plus about 7 trillion dwarf
galaxies. The observable Universe
has somewhere between 30 sextillion and 1 septillion stars. The Universe has about 9.4 x 1079
atoms.
Every proton in every atom of your body,
and in every atom of everything you see, is 13.798 billion years old. The stuff you are made of is as old as
the Universe itself.
Your body is dominated by carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Every carbon & oxygen & nitrogen atom in your body formed in the
nuclear furnaces at the heart of ancient stars that exploded as supernovas. You are made of star stuff.
90% of the mass of every proton and every
neutron in every atom of your body comes from nothing - the empty space
between the quarks of the protons & neutrons. Virtual particles that convey temporary
mass continuously pop in and out of existence in the empty space - the
nothingness - between the quarks.
90% of you is nothing.
The Universe formed by matter condensing
out of the energy (E = mc2) of an inflating singularity 13.798 billion
years ago. You came from energy. You are energy. All matter came from energy.
The inflating singularity that formed the
Universe came from nothing. The
singularity was an unstable, ultrahigh-energy virtual particle that
spontaneously appeared out of the nothingness of a quantum vacuum. You come from nothing. Everything comes from nothing. Wow.
These are the findings of modern physics
and modern astronomy and modern science.
DonÕt ÒbelieveÓ me? DonÕt
accept this? Check it out for
yourself. (Recommendation:
read Lawrence KraussÕ book A Universe
from Nothing, or listen to an online version of him lecturing about it.)