A Brain Cell Totally Looks Like The Universe
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OMFG! He just figured out the meaning of the universe!
Wha? I’m first? I thought someone would beat me to it! -Didn’t notice comment count-
Not sure whose representation of the universe this is. A little help?
I have no idea. =/
It is a popular cosmological model for a map of the spread of dark matter in the universe.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/43539/title/beyond_galileo’s_universe
First comment that actually has something to do with the pic, FTW!!
I SEE THINGS YOU CANNOT COMPREHEND. BECAUSE YOU ARE STUPID.
I SERVE NONE BUT KORROK
*sigh* Yes, but it will now be replaced with something even more bizarre and inexplicable. Thanks. You could have at least waited until after the holidays.
Thank you. I was anticipating a Douglas Adams reference.
^_^ You’re quite welcome! In retrospect, though, I think I should have usernamed as Slartibartfast, for maximum effect.
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Been a long time since I had some of that good old-time spam.
Nomnomnom
It’s 42. The meaning of life, the universe, and everything is not 41, but 42.
Idiotic post. It’s not a Universe. It’s not a galaxy. It’s an animal neuron.
This has a lot of metaphysical implications that I’m not sure I’d ever like to talk about.
We’ll just say that this LooksLike is EXTREMELY profound.
Actually, I do happen to believe in a “fractal universe”. So this comparison just makes me smile.
Definitely. The universe is just the result of an enormous math equation played out in physical substance… whatever that is. Fractals are a superb discovery.
like maybe all our brain cells are like…. tiny little universes man… and like every time we think man, we’re like…. making new starts man… like whoa man
You high?
I am, and he is like, totally getting it man… He knows stuff man… But like, when we is drinking alcohol we’re destroying universes, like, poof man…
***masturbates***
***masturbates to your masturbation***
….
Righty then.
came for the insightful, philosophical commentary
…realizing that it’s time to go now…
I’m with you. On to the next post…
cmon guys keep it appropriate
and your probably not high
yyyyyyyeeeeeah. no
!!
*Feeds mushrooms to your dog while filming you masturbate*
Thats what I was thinking!
woah…… And that must mean that our universe is a tiny brain cell in a larger being… Holy crap!
Let’s hope HE’S not high, then…
he is an alcoholic=the reaseon nukes are dropped
totally man..i wanna travel to your universe, that’d be like crazy man..i’d be like in ur thoughts and all !hahah u crack me up
Maybe our Universe is just part of a brain cell from a larger being? That’s scarily cool…
Or maybe it’s just a coincidence that they look alike and our heads aren’t carrying billions of universes because we are insignificant in the grander scheme of things. And maybe our universe isn’t a neuron just because it kind of looks like one because, you know, the universe sort of looks like a crazy bread mould too. Like, whoa, man.
It’s all in your head.
Which? The universe? Or the brain cell?
Both.
LOL jon liked that comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
You SO, like, killed the mood dude. Bad trip. Go be insignificant somewhere else and let this pot be shared !
If I had been faster I could now rightfully call myself a prophet.
i knew it!!!
A can already see someone making up the theory that the universe might be a brain cell of a much greater being, or that all of our brain cells might be tiny universes. However, the atoms brain cells consist of are much, much closer to each other than the stars, galaxies or galaxy clusters in the universe, and there is also no significant similarity between atoms and galaxies etc., nor has anything that could be identified as a linear flow of information (corresponding to the action potentials in neurons), which is the purpose of brain cells, been observed in the universe. Myth BUSTED!
ok, that hurt. But it is a illogical assumption to think that a braincell from a bigger being (probably evolved very differently then we did) had the same structure as our braincells. Or even consists out of the same materials and physics laws that we have come to know (probably not yet fully).
What about the vast amount of space between nuclei and electrons? I somehow think that an argument based on “there’s too much space in between” doesn’t quite cut it.
……galaxies are quarks & string segments…..duh
If galaxies were quarks, the universe would not even be the size of a single protein. Also, in regard to their size, the galaxies are much further away from each other than atoms in a molecule, and there is also no force that binds them to each other except for gravity, which is however more similar to the van der Waals forces than to a strong attractive force such as the covalent or ionic bond.
What ’bout dark matter?
well.. isn’t size relative? I mean sure we have our own system of measurements, but wouldn’t a smaller being measure something relative to its own size in much the same way? I don’t much enjoy thinking about all of this, it kinda hurts my head… But why rule it out? Nothing’s really impossible in an infinite universe.
I guess you didn’t see Men In Black.
They figured this out years ago.
mayhaps since neurons and universes are made of fundamentally the same things… (atoms, particles, quarks, strings… blah blah blah….) they coalesce in ways that appear to be similar… kinda like how hurricanes look oddly like spiral galaxies… just a thought…
Wow. That’s pretty kewl akshully.
ahem . . . it’s spelled “cool” and “actually.”
Thank you, good night.
Ahem, it’s a reference to south park and lol cats. Tank u gud nite!
Still looks dumb. Bye.
gud nite? alrdy? but its, like, 12 in the morning!
12 in the morning? Now, that’s funny! Which 12 would that be, O-dark hundred or High Noon? Neither one qualifies as morning (and you post is marked 8:26 PM). guda knight 2 U.
damn. y so srs?
loosen ^ bb
Lol, you obviously haven’t been on icanhascheezburger .
lol are you new to the internet? and have you never been to this site’s sister sites?
Your spelling of ‘cool’ and ‘actually’ are the reason why i never read comments on ICHC. At least these sites like Totallylookslike and Failblog have people with english skills higher then a 3-year old. >_>
They do it on purpose to mimic the lolspeak used in lol cats and captions, which I I think mocks people who type like that without even trying. I love when people think they’re so much smarter than everyone else that they don’t realize people have the intelligence to be facetious.
There just may be some things beyond the ken of mortal man, Captain.
And 42 you all. (Don’t Panic!)
42?! No wai!
Epic Hg2g reference. That’s gentle and yet holistic !
May you all be successful in the cricket wars and win the Heart of Gold as your trophy!
Does that mean humanity is an aneurism?
Whoa. That would kind of suck.
nah… just California.
What would that make West Virginia?
That’s like from that Simpsons’ coach gag, when homer evolves and then suddenly whole universe is in his head. Wow.
this is totally from the John Dies at the End sequel that was online
Yup – come on, guys an attribution would at least be expected.
Oh crap, not a war of attrition!
a lipid deposit
It’s the Mind of Bob.
This was a news story about 6 months ago. It isn’t clever- you just copied it.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/08/14/science/20060815_SCILL_GRAPHIC.html
Yeah, but they DO look alike.
ergo, they totally deserve to be on this website, even if it’s copied and not clever!
Stolen or not, it’s still f’in cool and it belongs on this site…still should have cited though. Tsk tsk. Who are you? Ann Coulter?
That’s really cool….makes you think, doesn’t it?
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Douglas Adams. the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. ibid.
hooray for fractals!
(if you don’t know how this relates to the pic, you’re not ready to know.)
WOOT MATH NERDS UNITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!
Not trying to cause any undue panic here, but has anyone considered that a higher being may have created both, and just reused a functional pattern? The same types of things can be seen in similar bone structures (if not proportions and sizes) in whale fins, bat wings, human arms, and other animal arm-like appendages… If there is a higher being which created te universe and everything in it, it stands to reason that He/She/It would want to re-use a pattern which He/She/It found appealing/practical.
In any case, that’s just my thoughts on the matter. Take them as you will.
for heck’s sake. Intelligent Design is not Science!
Who in the hell said Intelligent Design was Science? It’s religion, dumbass.
I feel bad now. I should have said ‘heck’ not ‘hell’. Now I’ve gone and over-reacted.
Oops.
It’s science vs religion, and God’s siding with science.
yep.
Heck, God created science (and scientists – and He’s more intelligent than all of them)!
man created god…and man is pretty stupid sometimes…hence god is a contradiction wrapped up in a parcel of doggy doo.
Oooor…. When things get on the scale of nearly infinite, the number of coincidences tend to increase. And there are only so many available patterns.
Also an interesting possibilty. But the question remains: Where did it come from?
God farted into a match. Duh.
If anyone can do it he/she/it can.
There must be some connection between
Dude…. I’m, like at one with stuff….
Too bad thats not a picture of “the universe”
We don’t have any sort of device capable of capturing such an image.
daz rite, but mebbe, howzabout, like, 1 of da braynecells ov de unnevurse TotallyLooksLike™dat?! yea man da’d be awsum!
English please!!!!!
Dude, lighten up! Sound it out. U should get hukt on fonix!
It’s called the Hubble Telescope..
I agree, but its just a simulation. Not a real picture, that would take years, or even hundreds of years till we can get a real picture of the universe.
i got one word:
DEEP!
…and maybe WOW…
Nahhhhhh,,, A methaphysical totallylookslike *barfs*
Ahhhhh, So THAT picture explains why the Law of Attraction exists.
LOL Sorry ;p
<—– Totally NLP obsessive
NO. The Law of Attraction exists because God is a friendly, loving being who allows us to invite things into our life experiences and as long as we follow His directions (ie: Crack the Book, repent until we are perfect, and Always be kinder than necessary), He is more than willing to give us all the joy we could ever want. Gratitude is the Key. Not dendrites.
=D
Gratitude is the key, but NO one is perfect, regardless of how much they repent!
This reminds me of a Pagan saying, “As above, so below.” Anyway, that was the first thing I thought when I saw this TLL.
Coincidence? I think not!
Welcome
Didn’t The Simpson’s do a sketch based on this, zooming in on Homer’s bonse?
Well we are all made up of stuff from old stars that have died and exploded and then reformed our galaxy/solar system/planet. So I guess it does make sense XD
if our neurons are universes and our universe is the neuron of a greater being, would we ever come to know the effect of this? there are cultures of bacteria existing inside of us, as there are human cultures. the bacteria in our digestive tract goes about its business, unchanged by the reality of their form of life. they do what they need to do to make it work. our human culture gives great significance to its own existence, specifically the dynamic relationship of subcultures. we understand our human culture as a separate entity, serving a separate purpose, with a different destiny than that of other cultures.
this actually is intended to be more of an inquiry than an explanation. i do wonder, with these identifiably similar functions and structures that occur on different scales, whether there it is feasible to conjure a potentially observable result of overlapping or clashing or a realization of something that is somehow altogether just one big giant super-thing that magically presents itself as a bajillion different things all at once… i’m going off into the deep end. i figure we’re all here looking at this cute little picture for some reason or another.
the meaning of life…..
is a brain cell.
I think this has already been asked, but how exactly do we know this is an accurate representation of the universe? Is there a link explaining?
This is probably just one universe that they’ve found. I doubt it’s a picture of our universe, simply of one they’ve found using crazy telescopes and whatchamadoogles. Wandering around NASA as an aimless lost child has it’s perks, you get to see a lot. No idea what most of the stuff does, or how it works, but still. They’ve got some crazy whatchamadoogles.
I think you’ve mistaken “universe” for “galaxy”?
how the hell did they get a pic of the universe?
Google Maps.
best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My mind is officially blown.
Worst post ever. It’s not a universe. It’s not even a galaxy. You idiots that believe this and see some metaphysical revelation are dolts.
its just a simulation of the universe there still could be more.
how do i get my messages here
My mind is blown too and yes I totally get the implication that a human brain cell potentially resembles a microscopic part of a microscopic cell of an unfathomably enormous organism that is our universe. And I love that people read way too far into it. Though the point being made can be neither proven nor dis-proven, it sparks wondrous thought, intrigue and imagination.
However, I would guess that this is an artistic representation by a scientist of what the universe might look like. It’s not a real photograph. Great ‘totally-looks-like’ though.
well, astrophysicists used some kind of super computer or just a computer to simulate what the universe looks like. So it is probably just a prediction of what part of the universe looks like to really everyone cool down about it.
Oh wow, this is like “Horton Hears a Who” ….. but it’s in your head !!! Whoaahhh !!!!!
OMFG! we’re like little whos. but are we in the cat’s head? or horton’s? or God’s?
trippy mayne…
damn, i’m gonna think about this all night..
I think this is an fx from the team which also made the effects in guillermo del toro’s “el laberinto del fauno” movie. they use chemicals looked trough the microscope to make visuals like this universe.
the whole universe is gods brain!!
Right, so this doesn’t prove that the universe is the brain cell of some greater being. But it does support an already well-known theory about patterns being repeated in all of nature’s designs. Pretty interesting.
…And no, I don’t believe in any god just to have that said. <_<
DUDE! Maybe the Universe is the brain of another man. And we as well have galaxies in our mind. =))))))))))) /sarcasm
They are similar. Like the fact that we use ten percent of our brains and the other fact that we have only seen part of the universe.
does this mean that we are in a brain cell of a greater being… this could be linked to god… except he would just be a guy with a amazing fantasy life… what about the braincells we have… this could be epic… but untill then, it’s NAKED TIME
CREEEEPY!!!
Hello, Mr. Mackle SIR!
A visual comparison named “A Brain Cell Totally Looks Like The Universe.” From a little place called totallylookslike.com.
Completely random, and yet… completely related to World Religions.
(an explanation of the images’ sources=http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/08/14/science/20060815_SCILL_GRAPHIC.html)
Kindling to the intelligent design fire? Maybe.
It must seem random; thanks for the time if you took some to check it out. o:
Signe
If that don’t blow your mind ;-D
No, it’s a brain cell of a mouse. And as we all know, they are the most intelligent species on the planet Earth. Which might, or might not, explain something…
We all have billions of universe in our heads
Alright, n00bs. The photo on the left is a brain cell. The photo on the right is not “the universe.” The photo on the right is the predicted pattern of distribution of Dark Matter ‘in’ the Universe.
So stop with these silly comments about galaxies and stars.
-sigh-
Onward with the Mandelbrot discussion.
Also, enough with the ‘religion’ bullcrap. This is theoretical science people, not Zombie Jesus.
Blargh, double post fail.
WAY TO LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE, EX-LAX.
Actually I find this kinda ”cute”.
The universe the as what’s in your mind.
So your mind’s the universe.
Ok ok I’m out
Actually I find this kinda ”cute”.
The universe is the same as what’s in your mind.
So your mind’s the universe.
Ok, ok I’m out
mind=blown
thats all.