Top 10 Things/Questions About the Universe That Scare Us
Space is a beauty of a devil. It's vast and quantitative, yet the quantities of horrors that lurk in it insert terror into our hearts and minds.With the more so recent theory of 'Planet X', which says that every 27 million years it dislodges comets and asteroids from the Kuiper Belt, which essentially causes mass extinction if they strike Earth; if it's real, it would lead to mass extinction of all species on Earth this month.
It's scary to wonder what space brings us. We all know that black holes exist, we don't know where; we know Earth will be destroyed, we don't know when.
So here you go.
According to science, you can use a black hole to access any of the 10 different types of dimensions. Or, if something goes seriously wrong, you could be in five dimensions at once, perhaps, and you would be changing the past and the future at the same time. There would be no present. You'd just be stuck in this void-like dimension.
These are a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape. Yes, not even light, the fastest particle in the universe, can escape a black hole. That's scary, considering that the average human runs at about 8.3 miles per hour. Guess 'The Simpsons' were inaccurate.
When you are sucked into a black hole, you are stretched because one end of your body is closer to the black hole than the other half. This is called 'spaghettification.' Your body would be stretched, and I would imagine that you would be stretched many miles.
Not a good way to go out.
There's this one theory that says the universe will stop expanding at one point and will start contracting.
Oh, there's this other one that says the universe will heat itself up until it can no longer sustain life. This is some creepy stuff.
The universe isn't expanding into space. It's an expansion of space. Which is why asking where the universe is expanding into is a wrongly put question!
Ignore the gross oversimplification, of course.
Did you ever stop and seriously question where the universe is theoretically expanding?
Comets, meteors, whatever you want to call them, are bits of rock in space. Big bits. They frequently hit planets and sometimes leave a big impact. They are hypothesized to be what killed the dinosaurs.
If one hit Earth today that was big enough, most likely all of humanity would be dead.
Space, for the most part, is large and constantly expanding. We are one spot on one spot in it. Think about that.
It's scary and kind of depressing to think that you and I are spots on spots, or irrelevant. Irrelevant in the constant expansion of the universe.
There's a reason why space has a sublime effect. If you do stargazing, you know how it feels seeing the Milky Way with your eyes.
If not, what type of life is on other planets? If yes, then it's certain that we are doomed to be alone in the universe. Forever.
A theory says that the universe won't end but will be recreated in a way similar to the first Big Bang, which was when a dense packet of heat began to expand.
It's scary to think about because, well, we don't know if our being would exist in the universe or not. We might exist, but we might not be ourselves.
It's a 'maybe' answer. We know other planets have the possibility of sustaining human life via their resources. It's just the question of if we can reach those planets in time.
We can probably adapt to survive on every planet.
Before the universe ends, life will end. It's a proven fact that our sun will die, which will end life on our planet.
I mean, we don't know what will happen, just like we don't know what will happen in the next second. And the second after that. And the second after that. Basically, multiply the mystery of the next second by... a lot.
Considering the size of the universe, it's almost certain that extraterrestrial beings exist somewhere in it. Whether or not they are hostile or passive, their arrival on Earth would probably scare us really badly.
I used to watch Ancient Aliens on the History Channel constantly with my mom when I was a wee li'l chili pepper, and now I'm paranoid about them.
It's scary to think that if you are sent into space, alone, you would just float around until you die. Its vast emptiness makes you feel insignificant, referred to above on my #4 choice.
The Newcomers
These are beautiful but also deadly at the same time.