【Questions and Answers】The Universe

What is the universe?

The word "universe" comes from Taoism, which is the overall overview of the existence of space and time, and the non-existence of Tao.

 In Zhuangzi, the upper and lower quadrants are called Yu, and from ancient times to today, it is called Zhou.

"World" comes from the Buddhist school, which is the overall concept of time and space, and is divided into the six mortal worlds with color and the four sacred worlds without color. Color Realm (Heaven and Human).

 In the Shurangama Sutra, the world is the flow, and the world is the orientation.

"Universe" and "world" are both integrated concepts of "time" and "space" if they are interpreted as nouns; now the universe is regarded as "outer space", and the world is regarded as "Earth ecology".

How big is the universe?

The currently observable universe is about 10 ²⁶ meters, and "observation" refers to the interpretation of light and electricity by instruments.

If the light source is cut off, the room will immediately darken. If the candle is lit, we can only barely see something close to the candle. The room may be like a large gymnasium, but what we can see is very close at hand.

The observable universe is only a small part of the universe, and this scope may only be part of the brains of heaven and man.

The space-time distance can better explain this problem. The earth world is about 10 ⁷ meters, the solar system is about 10 ¹⁴ meters, the Milky Way is about 10 ²¹ meters, and the universe is about 10 ²⁸ meters. Therefore, the time and space distance of our "cosmic world" is currently about 8 ⁸ .

The outer space of the macrocosmic world is the heaven and man of the macrocosmic world, and the human body itself is also a "microcosm", which is the observable universe in the eyes of the microcosmic world.

The earth is the sixth-level universe Taiyi level, the heavens and humans are the sixth-level universe Taiyuan level, the world of heaven and man is the seventh-level universe Taiyi level, and above this is the pure consciousness world from existence to non-existence; in other words, the universe The actual size is about 840 ^meters .

The space-time interval is the range of consciousness interpretation, and it is likely to change with the interpretation of consciousness. The more complex the consciousness, the larger the interval; in other words, the universe we see is only our current interpretation. For example, when microscopic exploration reaches the Shura world , the original 8 ⁸ may become 16 ¹⁶ .

The age of the universe?

The size and age of all things in the universe are in an equal relationship, so the size of the universe is relative to how old it is.

Looking outward to the seventh-level universe world Taiyi level (Daqian world), its life scale is about ⁸⁴⁰ times that of human beings, so its life span is about 4.2×10 ²⁸ years, or 42,000 trillion years.

For example, people use the second as the time unit and the foot as the space unit. This is because the second is similar to the pulse, and the ruler is similar to the human body. Similarly, for the earth's ecology, the earth's revolution around the sun is like a pulse.

The revolution time of the earth is about 3.16×10 ⁷ seconds, and the diameter of the earth is about 1.27×10 ⁷ meters. The difference between the two is only about 2.5 times. However, after all, seconds and meters are not natural products. is much less than one ton (one cubic meter of water).

The revolution time of the earth is about 4.21×10 ⁷ times that of an adult’s pulse, and the diameter of the earth is about 4.32×10 ⁷ that of the Sui and Tang chi (0.294 meters), so the difference between the two is only about 0.97 times.

The space-time distance between the earth's ecology and the earth's creatures is 8 ⁸ (about 1.68×10 ⁷ ), while the space-time distance between the earth's ecology and man is 4.3×10 ⁷ , so modern humans are regarded as small and medium-sized creatures in the earth's ecology.

The main ingredients of the universe?

The main component of the universe is the first-level universe Taiyi level, that is, the most basic substance composed of pure consciousness; because it is virtualized by consciousness, so although it is full of the universe, it is also empty and empty.

From the viewpoint of the first-level universe being too easy, objects or spaces are only different in function, not in essence. Therefore, entity is space, and space is also entity, which differs according to the interpretation of consciousness.

"Taiyi level" is the foundation of the universe. It is not only the carrier of the world on which the consciousness lives, but also the material foundation of the outer universe. Its function is like the earth or electrons.

Since the consciousness of the Asura world is extremely complex, and the time and space distance may be 16 ¹⁶ , future microscopic explorations will find that microscopic matter in this range may be regarded as the main component of the cosmic image; when will it enter this range? When people have the ability to clearly see the atomic structure like the solar system.

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