{"id":58,"date":"2009-06-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/scienceandthesacred\/2009\/06\/just-how-vast-is-the-cosmos.html"},"modified":"2014-05-19T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:16:25","slug":"just-how-vast-is-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/scienceandthesacred\/2009\/06\/just-how-vast-is-the-cosmos.html","title":{"rendered":"Just How Vast is the Cosmos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Galaxy Starbirth.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/202\/import\/Galaxy%20Starbirth.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"380\" width=\"500\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><b>Source:<\/b> Hubble Heriage Team\/AURA\/STScl\/NASA and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1890151521?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thebiofou06-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1890151521\">The Hand of God<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thebiofou06-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1890151521\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important;margin: 0px ! important\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">When we refer to the vastness of the cosmos, exactly how large of a space are we describing? The picture above shows the galaxy NGC 4214, located about 13 million light years from Earth. Currently, the farthest observed galaxy is A1689-zD1, located almost 13 <i>billion<\/i> light years from Earth. How much further does our universe extend past this distant galaxy?<\/p>\n<p>In an interview for <i>Closer to Truth<\/i> with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, astrophysicist Andre Lindei discusses exactly what our infinite universe looks like. Lindei, one of the authors of &#8220;inflationary cosmology&#8221;, presents a model of our universe consisting of countless collections of enormously large &#8220;balloons.&#8221; Thus, the 10<sup>28<\/sup> centimeters we can see with our most powerful telescopes is but the smallest sliver of this infinite collection of spaces. As Lindei says, &#8220;We are seeing nothing yet,&#8221; because our universe is only 14 billion years young.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview can be found on the <i>Closer to Truth<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.closertotruth.com\/video-profile\/How-Vast-is-the-Cosmos-Andrei-Linde-\/49\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hubble Heriage Team\/AURA\/STScl\/NASA and The Hand of God When we refer to the vastness of the cosmos, exactly how large of a space are we describing? The picture above shows the galaxy NGC 4214, located about 13 million light years from Earth. Currently, the farthest observed galaxy is A1689-zD1, located almost 13 billion light&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Just How Vast is the Cosmos? - Science and the Sacred<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/scienceandthesacred\/2009\/06\/just-how-vast-is-the-cosmos.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Just How Vast is the Cosmos? - Science and the Sacred\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Hubble Heriage Team\/AURA\/STScl\/NASA and The Hand of God When we refer to the vastness of the cosmos, exactly how large of a space are we describing? 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