Is our life-span too short for universe?

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Its entirely possible that the speed of light is the fastest one can travel in the universe, however, it seems like we focus too much on talking how far away things are and we cant get nowhere.

A mosquito or other simple living being on this planet lives for a mere day... It is extremely limited by distance it can travel due to its life-span... What if, we are the mosquitoes in our universe (or even less) and to other advanced civilizations, a light year is a mere equivalent of a nano-second (dont quote me on the scale, just an idea)

They watch stars dying and being born like we watch weather and seasons changing... A mosquito with its life-span cannot witness seasons changing, just like we cant witness a death of a star in our lifetime (completely)... To them a star blowing up would be equivalent of an earthquake or a flooding to us.

Possibly the reason why we haven't made any contact, is the time frame of our existence is so tiny to other advanced civilizations that they haven't even blinked yet.

Like Einstein said, time is relative and if ones lifespan extends to millions of years, our earth year could be a mere blink of an eye to them and 1400 light year journey is a mere walk to the pub for a pint.
 
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Have you just watched Interstella? :D

Unless they live in or near a black hole or are already travelling at light speed I'm not sure how time would be so much different for them. They would also be in similar conditions i.e. on a planet orbiting a star.
 
Don't different creatures have different perceptions of time which is proportional to their size? That's why it's so difficult to catch a fly. To them you are moving extremely slowly so they have plenty of time to get out of the way.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/16/time-passes-slowly-flies-study

Who knows, maybe there is a race out there who's perception of time is so different from ours that one of our years may feel like a minute to them. They may appear as gigantic slow lumbering beasts to us...just as we appear to flies.

Nanoman said:
Have you just watched Interstella? :D
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No, but I did watch Interstellar while drinking Stella if that counts.
 
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ThePirateHulk said:
Who knows, maybe there is a race out there who's perception of time is so different from ours that one of our years may feel like a minute to them. They may appear as gigantic slow lumbering beasts to us...just as we appear to flies.
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Maybe the universe is a member of that race and we're just the tiny cells inside of it
 
We spend so much time looking out into space to gain perspective that we can't even begin to look inwards and discover what impact we have or what we can achieve in our universe.

You could equally say that we could be ultimate thing in our universe, what if every part of the universe, the stars, the suns, the planets were all powering the center and we are it. We just don't really know. Highly unlikely I agree but it's just as possible as the fact we are insignificant as mosquitoes.

Until it can be measured and determined all we will never know.
 
I am not walking 1400 light years for a pint! Its bad enough having to wait until 1pm on a Friday for a cheeky lunchtime one without you making it worse.
 
It's plausible and it's what the Vedic literature says I.e a day in the life of Brahman is a 1000 earth years or something.

There's no doubt we are minuscule in this universe, like ants ;)

Surely we've been given this intelligence for a reason?
 
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