Despite your personal beliefs and whatnot, it still is fan to watch, play and read... It's obviously semi-scientific and not towards religion or something like that.

http://www.primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

A flash based site that offers the 'view' (drawings really) of the biggest thing in the universe (the universe itself) and the smallest (something called 'quantum foam').

Enjoy!

Wow! Really off-topic! Personally, i believe the universe comprises of the earth being flat and balanced precariously upon the shell of a brobdingnagian turtle.

Yes; this has been bouncing around for a couple years. It's very well done.

Amazing, of course, that you have to start with a disclaimer like "despite your personal beliefs and whatnot." But there is it.


-J

J: Wasn't aware it's been around for such a long (!) time... And yes, it's sad but i had to be political correct, right? :P

Not to mention that I spelled "fun" with an "a". Come on! This is getting ridiculous and I'm getting completely tired!

THANK GOD!

Hah! I've often thought that if I believed that sort of thing or that the sun was drawn across the sky by a chariot, it wouldn't actually have any impact in my daily life.

Something that's also pretty old but relates. Not to mention is starts out with a good instrumental

Ahh yes, space, the final frontier.

Also the area where all other music stops and electronic music takes over, completely.

I show this same animation to my science students. It's very well done. It's hard to get anyone to understand the concept of one billion much less trillions and light years. Did you know it would take you 30 years to count to one billion assuming you count at a rate of one number per second?

But if I start right away, I guess it'll be sooner?


Nikolas: Thanks for posting this!! Pretty cool.

Yes, it is really humbling to contemplate these huge numbers that measure the size of the Universe, and how insignificant our planet is is the cosmos. But we have J.S Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and the rest of the pantheon of sublime composers to accompany us and make our existence meaningful. Aren't we lucky? Are the denizens (if any) of other planets lucky also?

Yes we are truly like for a lot of things. At least I'd like to think I'm very lucky to have what I have and to feel as I feel and actually even being here! (talk about being nice to your host, right? :D)

At the same time, I'd like to believe that somewhere out there there might be someone who has what we refer to as life. Not for any particular reason, except to remain humble enough... (and yes I understand that this might read that I've 'outgrown' everything in this earth, but let's not take it there! :D)

I like Tom Lehrer's quote to help put things in perspective ... It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I think life might be quite widespread, considering the size and age of everything. I doubt it would be very similar though.

I know a religious person who doesn't believe in atoms, lol.

It didn't stop Star trek from always depicting alien species as humanoids.



Hmmm, I suppose all those nuclear power-stations are just producing heat by God's good grace...

More to the point, she uses a computer haha. Wonder if they'd exist if scientists didn't know what they were talking about :P

This is a common concern of pianists who have been overpracticing.

here's some of my favorite music to enhance the mood

2 tracks from "Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding" early 1980s, made almost entirely on one big modular synthesizer



and the grand finale

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Didn't think of it that way, but really you hit a spot!

It's a good thing that I actually met my wife, while in concert, when I was performing one of my works! I mean, eventually I can safely spread the word that I learned piano to get all the chicks (even though I got only one :D)

Nice! I saved it to my HD!

Thanks for sharing that Nikolas. It's well done and something to refer back to.

You've helped in the expansion (or perhaps contraction) of the universe. I put it on my FB page last night and received some positive comments from around the globe.

Speaking of the universe, does anyone believe Judgement day is coming on May 21st?

Of course it isn't lol. Besides, I have pieces to learn haha

I knew there had to be a list of predictions of the end of the world ....

http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm

That wouldn't be nice...
I am going to pay for my new piano on the 19th, and it will probably not be delivered before the 21st. I hope I won't pay for nothing (although of course money would be of relative value after Judgement Day).

I'd love for the world to end on May 21 because we wouldn't have to live through the 2012 election season.

Does anybody remember what music was sent out into space on that gold record on the Voyager probe? Bach, I think?

We call music "the universal language," but we don't know if sound would even be meaningful to other beings. On the other hand, everything is made up of vibrations and frequencies, so in some sense sound is universal.

Elene

I imagine its quite likely that other organisms would use vibrations in air, water or ground as sensory input in someway or other.

With regards to the end of the world, technically speaking once the rapture has happened it will be heck on earth for five months before the universe is actually destroyed, so there will still be some time left to play a bit more piano. Just gotta barricade your doors to stop all the demons interrupting your practice.

Cant believe it just turned the word h.e.l.l to heck haha. doesnt make much sense like that :P

Ill spell it the norse way, Hel.