Post by Rishi on Oct 21, 2008 5:45:37 GMT 12
Imagine if you had SUPREMELY powerful vision. You are able to see yourself, you are able to see your whole body of flesh and blood. You commence your viewing experience by staring at a single follicle of hair on your head. Now you gradually 'zoom out' so that your field of vision encapsulates your entire head. You are continuing to zoom out so that more objects can enter your field of vision. Whilst zooming out, you are now witnessing more people walking around from one place to another in your local neighbourhood. Some of these people are driving in cars, whilst others are riding bicycles, travelling in buses and travelling in trains.
You are now pulling your vision even further out, causing your field of vision to correspondingly expand. The expansion of your field of vision enables you to see more and more wondrous things. The myriad of vehicles which people are using to travel are now no larger than the dot at the end of this sentence. The people who share your nation with you are not even visible to you anymore.
Your wanderlust has not yet ceased, as now you can see several clouds floating at a relatively low altitude. You can now also see the nation in which you dwell in its entirety. You continue to move upwards. You have just entered the stratosphere, the second lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, the troposphere, is now beneath you. Surrounding you in various directions are weather balloons. Now you can observe even more of this beautiful planet, including most continents and the single world ocean, from your current vantage point.
Suddenly, the speed at which you continue to look further upwards increases drastically. You have gone beyond the stratosphere and are now within the mesosphere. Hundreds upon hundreds of meteors are rapidly falling towards our planet, many of them completely burning up due to the process of re-entry.
The Kármán line, widely regarded as the boundary between our planet's atmosphere and outer space, has now been surpassed.
You are now viewing what is occuring within the thermosphere. A space shuttle hovers in front of your field of vision. Completely behind it is the Aurora Borealis, a sight so utterly majestic that there are no words whatsoever which could adequately capture the beauty of what you have just observed. It is a truly ineffable experience.
Now you are viewing the exosphere. It is merely a dark void.
Through your all-encompassing vision, you can now observe all of planet Earth as the tiny blue ball that it is.
You are now suddenly moving beyond Earth at the speed of light. The planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (I still accept Pluto as a planet because Pluto is badass... sue me!) zip past your field of vision.
You have now moved beyond even this entire solar system after a relatively short duration of time.
The speed of light is unbearably slow for you, cosmically speaking, so you decide to move 9 quintillion times faster than the speed of light. You know that it is possible to accomplish such a feat, so you have accomplished it without any great difficulty. The Milky Way galaxy (ie. where we live) as well as ALL of the galaxies within our local group have completely vanished from your field of vision in a matter of mere moments.
Within a few Earth days, hundreds of trillions of relatively distant galaxies zoom past you.
This continues to happen for another few Earth months. Even more relatively distant galaxies appear and disappear from your field of vision within a fraction of a second.
This continues to happen for 486 billion Earth years, yet you are totally unphased by this seemingly incomprehensible span of time. Actually, time is of no consequence to you whatsoever in your current state of super-consciousness. Innumerable galaxies of diverse shapes and sizes appear and disappear from your field of vision during this period of time.
All of a sudden, you momentarily observe what appears to be some sort of a translucent shell, a boundary.
You swiftly attempt to reach this apparent universal boundary, yet your attempt is a failure as this boundary has almost instantaneously disappeared from your field of vision.
Deeply immersed in thought, you have now realised why this universal boundary has almost instantaneously disappeared from your field of vision. It is because it is accelerating at an UNIMAGINABLY FAST speed, a speed that is both OBVIOUSLY and EASILY faster than the speed of light.
If you dared to have the audacity to even imagine the speed at which this universal boundary was expanding, it would MELT your comparatively FEEBLE mind.
It is crucial that you now move at an even faster speed. Now you are moving a googolplex times faster than the speed of light.
The universal boundary has been surpassed!
You can now observe the entire universe in which we exist as a mere hollow sphere. What a tiny and insignificant dot it is from your current vantage point! In fact, surrounding this hollow sphere are COUNTLESS other hollow spheres, each and every hollow sphere containing a diverse and relatively vast universe within itself!
Zooming past these hollow spheres for an uncountable number of eons, you suddenly notice that these countless hollow spheres are themselves encased within a hollow sphere!
Travelling beyond even this particular hollow sphere, you have now realised that this particular hollow sphere seems to be a nucleus of what the modern scientists of Earth commonly depict as an atom. Rapidly orbiting this nucleus are several electrons.
As a result of zooming out even further yet again, trillions of these atomic structures have now been viewed by you.
Now you are viewing molecular structures. Vast numbers of these molecular structures promptly appear and then just as promptly disappear from your field of vision.
Your sight has shifted even further beyond these molecular structures.
You are now observing a single follicle of hair on the head of a being whose physical appearance is COMPLETELY identical to your own. This physical being looks toward your general direction and screams "NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION!!!!!!!!!" in a squeaky voice.
Your viewing journey has now triumphantly concluded!
You are now pulling your vision even further out, causing your field of vision to correspondingly expand. The expansion of your field of vision enables you to see more and more wondrous things. The myriad of vehicles which people are using to travel are now no larger than the dot at the end of this sentence. The people who share your nation with you are not even visible to you anymore.
Your wanderlust has not yet ceased, as now you can see several clouds floating at a relatively low altitude. You can now also see the nation in which you dwell in its entirety. You continue to move upwards. You have just entered the stratosphere, the second lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, the troposphere, is now beneath you. Surrounding you in various directions are weather balloons. Now you can observe even more of this beautiful planet, including most continents and the single world ocean, from your current vantage point.
Suddenly, the speed at which you continue to look further upwards increases drastically. You have gone beyond the stratosphere and are now within the mesosphere. Hundreds upon hundreds of meteors are rapidly falling towards our planet, many of them completely burning up due to the process of re-entry.
The Kármán line, widely regarded as the boundary between our planet's atmosphere and outer space, has now been surpassed.
You are now viewing what is occuring within the thermosphere. A space shuttle hovers in front of your field of vision. Completely behind it is the Aurora Borealis, a sight so utterly majestic that there are no words whatsoever which could adequately capture the beauty of what you have just observed. It is a truly ineffable experience.
Now you are viewing the exosphere. It is merely a dark void.
Through your all-encompassing vision, you can now observe all of planet Earth as the tiny blue ball that it is.
You are now suddenly moving beyond Earth at the speed of light. The planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (I still accept Pluto as a planet because Pluto is badass... sue me!) zip past your field of vision.
You have now moved beyond even this entire solar system after a relatively short duration of time.
The speed of light is unbearably slow for you, cosmically speaking, so you decide to move 9 quintillion times faster than the speed of light. You know that it is possible to accomplish such a feat, so you have accomplished it without any great difficulty. The Milky Way galaxy (ie. where we live) as well as ALL of the galaxies within our local group have completely vanished from your field of vision in a matter of mere moments.
Within a few Earth days, hundreds of trillions of relatively distant galaxies zoom past you.
This continues to happen for another few Earth months. Even more relatively distant galaxies appear and disappear from your field of vision within a fraction of a second.
This continues to happen for 486 billion Earth years, yet you are totally unphased by this seemingly incomprehensible span of time. Actually, time is of no consequence to you whatsoever in your current state of super-consciousness. Innumerable galaxies of diverse shapes and sizes appear and disappear from your field of vision during this period of time.
All of a sudden, you momentarily observe what appears to be some sort of a translucent shell, a boundary.
You swiftly attempt to reach this apparent universal boundary, yet your attempt is a failure as this boundary has almost instantaneously disappeared from your field of vision.
Deeply immersed in thought, you have now realised why this universal boundary has almost instantaneously disappeared from your field of vision. It is because it is accelerating at an UNIMAGINABLY FAST speed, a speed that is both OBVIOUSLY and EASILY faster than the speed of light.
If you dared to have the audacity to even imagine the speed at which this universal boundary was expanding, it would MELT your comparatively FEEBLE mind.
It is crucial that you now move at an even faster speed. Now you are moving a googolplex times faster than the speed of light.
The universal boundary has been surpassed!
You can now observe the entire universe in which we exist as a mere hollow sphere. What a tiny and insignificant dot it is from your current vantage point! In fact, surrounding this hollow sphere are COUNTLESS other hollow spheres, each and every hollow sphere containing a diverse and relatively vast universe within itself!
Zooming past these hollow spheres for an uncountable number of eons, you suddenly notice that these countless hollow spheres are themselves encased within a hollow sphere!
Travelling beyond even this particular hollow sphere, you have now realised that this particular hollow sphere seems to be a nucleus of what the modern scientists of Earth commonly depict as an atom. Rapidly orbiting this nucleus are several electrons.
As a result of zooming out even further yet again, trillions of these atomic structures have now been viewed by you.
Now you are viewing molecular structures. Vast numbers of these molecular structures promptly appear and then just as promptly disappear from your field of vision.
Your sight has shifted even further beyond these molecular structures.
You are now observing a single follicle of hair on the head of a being whose physical appearance is COMPLETELY identical to your own. This physical being looks toward your general direction and screams "NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION!!!!!!!!!" in a squeaky voice.
Your viewing journey has now triumphantly concluded!
