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Largest Object in the Universe Discovered
prostoalex writes "Quick, think of the largest object you can imagine. Whatever your imagination delivered it probably wasn't an 'enormous amoeba-like structure 200 light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas,' a newly found object, as USA Today reports."
I wish I could mod you down right now for thinking about something that most people probably thought about either a) back in 5th grade, or b) while high.
Hardly a revolutionary or impressive thought, anyway.
Not to mention the fact that there is plenty of science to suggest why this is wrong... such as what we know about the physics of small scales and energies (think quantum mechanics, and how at some point you can't get into finer detail). And the fact that a being that large would not be able to do anything because of the speed at which information could travel over such large distances is limited by the speed of light and other things... Imagine your brain trying to send a signal to your foot, telling it to take a step... but by the time the signal reaches your foot, your brain has already succumbed to the ravages of entropy and no longer exists.