It's really mind blowing to learn that the universe is the shape of a brain cell, amirite?

If one loses that brain cell....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

not really when it looks like this http://pmgtg.com/structure-of-brain-cell-and-universe-almost-identical/ and this http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/body.html

by Anonymous 13 years ago

how do we know the shape of the universe?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

A perfect sphere, I would assume.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Never mind that. The actual shape of the universe is debatable, some theories state it could be a perfect sphere, others that it has no real shape and is just infinite in all directions, there isn't really any solid evidence for any of them.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

i find this a waste of having your mind blown.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

maybe OP just watched Men in Black.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

the universe is infinite; it has no shape

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If it is expanding, how can it be infinite? Infinity can't expand into infinity. It would have to end somewhere.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh it does? Please explain.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's not expanding. Our view of it is expanding at the speed of light. We technically are at the center of our own universe.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This is untrue. The universe /is/ expanding. This is why "The Big Freeze" is the currently accepted theory. The universe will continue expanding until the energy is so spread out the heat of the universe will be virtually absolute zero.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Can entropy be reversed?!???!?!?!??!?!?!?!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's very complicated. It's not expanding into anything, it's just expanding. "Expanding" in this context doesn't mean just getting bigger, it means that everything is getting farther apart. Also, the universe is everything that exists, and there can't be something outside of everything. This video explains it a bit more. http://youtu.be/Z0o6hQLcSRc

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Nah girl. The universe is not expanding. Our type of matter is expanding //through// the infinite dark matter. The observable universe is expanding. There has to be something infinite for us to go through. We can't be in something that takes up absolutely all space that exists (infinite) and somehow have that expand as well. That would mean it is surrounded by nothing and nothing does not exist. It can't surround us.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I feel like a POTD had something like this in it a few months ago...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

They are not spheres. Although I don't know how we obtained pictures of the universe, a brain cell is polygonal, with branches stemming off of it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Ah, I was thinking of most other cells (stupid mistake). Thinking of the shape a neuron, are you sure it's the universe and not a galaxy?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Actually, the picture (below) that I based this comment on shows a zoomed in portion, which is why I said it wasn't spherical. I am now not sure of what the shape is, but this IS the universe, though (again) I am not sure how it was taken. http://ctrlv.in/86416

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's the Great Wall. It's a band of galactic superclusters grouped in a line with branches. That's not the universe, just the largest visible superstructure.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Welp, there you have it. All of infinity, right there in that little picture.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Actually it's only the bit of infinity we can see.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't know where you read this, but the shape of the universe is debated upon by cosmologists and involves very high end mathematics. And because of its sheer size, the universe as we see it doesn't even exist at the same "points in time."

by Anonymous 11 years ago

For those interested http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/3314456/Surfer-dude-stuns-physicists-with-theory-of-everything.html

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I wonder, did op mean galaxies? I think I've heard that before

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Galaxies have different shape sometimes, and they're usually swirly. So no.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think this is a pun that just got over analyzed.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

OP meant galaxies. Brain cells certainly look more like galaxies than they do the universe. We don't even know the shape of the universe.

by Anonymous 11 years ago