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Originally Posted by snowyowl
Yet the universe is currently thought by scientists to be of finite size.
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That's funny Knowing how big our little galaxy is; 200 billion suns like ours, most 50xs bigger ---compare this dot
. to a ping pong ball.
Then, hold up your thumb to the sky arm outstretched...
your thumb is blocking 10,000 galaxies... extending out that your thumb is blocking.
10,000 (thank you Hubble Telescope!)
Now move your thumb 6 inches to the left, held up to the sky ...another 10,000 galaxies...
move another 2 inches --another 10,000 stretching straight out.
"....Milky Way galaxy, scientists estimate that there may be tens of billions of solar systems
in our galaxy,
perhaps even as many as 100 billion."
Finite? ok.