How big is the Universe? (Creator, God, Allah, Qur'an)

[Cordoba]

To feel a glimpse of what Subhan Allah (Glory be to Allah) means, have a look at this link:

How Big is the Universe?

A very interesting 9 minutes film, traveling from our planet at the speed of light satrting January 1st. These are the comments of the film as we move out into space:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BGxRWCmwSDE

- Light would travel for 5 hours and 31 minutes to reach Pluto

- 3.5 billion miles to reach the outer boundaries of our solar system, still on January 1st.

- On April 19 of year 5, we would reach the nearest star to our solar system - Alpha Centauri A

- We have travelled so far 25 trillion miles, and our journey has just begun

- After 10 light years from the sun, the stars in our galaxy appear to converge

- After 100,000 years, the entire spiral of the Milkyway is recognized (that's 100,000 years traveling at the speed of light)

- From here, each point we see is not an individual star but a complete galaxy

- If you add 22 zero after the number 10, that would give the aproximate number of stars in each galaxy !!!

- 5 million years later, the Milkyway seems to be part of the 30 galaxy cluster known as the local group

- 50 million years out, and we encounter the burger cluster containing more than 2,000 galaxies

- We further go deeper into the cosmos as billions of years go past

- After 10 billion years, we see a theoretical view of the universe: Countless billions of galaxies are no more than a micro dot

- It such a spectacular sight, so vast and diverse that the power of its Creator must truly surpass all human understandings

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BGxRWCmwSDE

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All what I can say is Subhan Allah (a billion times)

There is to Him no equivalent

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The Creator of this universe how powerful, creative and extraordinary He would be

What would you say?

[wednesday]

That is a very interesting concept to grasp, we touched on it in physics. However, if you can prove that the universe has a 'size,' you have yourself a nice nobel piece prize in physics.

If God didn't create this wonder then the 'big bang' must really have been a "big Bang"

[Cordoba]

I don't know about a Nobel prize, but the clear belief I have is that God designed and caused the Big Bang to happen

Makes sense .....

And also the universe itself is a small glimpse of how Great the Creator is .....

[kadzbiz]

I love the take that the movie "Men in Black" has on it.

[sandy whitelinger]

What will really turn your gourd over is that after a while of traveling at the speed of light in a straight line you might wind up right back where you started.

"There was a young woman named Bright
Who went faster than the speed of light
She left home one day in relative way
And returned the previous night."

[Cordoba]

Originally Posted by wednesday

if you can prove that the universe has a 'size,' you have yourself a nice nobel piece prize in physics.

The Creator tells us in the Qur'an (56:75-76) that we will never know the real position of stars

[Don Penguinoini]

In a coupla billion years, our 3 galaxys will collide to form a big one. The Milky Way, Andromeda and Triangulam Galaxies.

[Somkid]

Keep in mind boundaries and borders are human prescriptions all I can say is space is really big and it keeps getting bigger.

[Cordoba]

Indeed, we live in a huge expanding universe

As mentioned by The Creator

(And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander)

(The Qur'an, 51:47)