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Largest Object in the Universe Discovered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-big-twinkie dept.

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."

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  1. Remember by Eightyford · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Remember that was the largest known object in the universe millions and millions of years ago. Who knows what it would look like today.

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  2. Size 42 by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The largest object that I can imagine quickly is the Universe . It's taking longer to imagine the Multiverse as a single object, but it's even more fun.

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  3. The Wall? by Zarhan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How does this compare to The Great Wall, discovered as a structure in 1989?

  4. Re:Problem with pseudo-scientists by MisterSquid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Whose thinking ISN'T limited by what they know?

    Everyone has limitations, but one of the beauties of the human mind is metacognition. The phenomenon of having expert knowledge prevent one from reinterpreting contrary data is referred to as "confirmation bias" which I recently read about in a blog post by Bob Sutton. Sutton is a fairly renowned consultant.

    In the above post, he refers to a phrase that should be familiar to many geeks, which is "strong opinions, weakly held." This is a very good approach to the study of science. Know what you know with near certainty, but the second you come across contrary evidence be ready to let everything go.

    Really, it's just the idea that no one, really, knows anything. All knowledge is contingent and what little we think we know is probably wrong somewhere.

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