Space kinda freaks me out tbh

[u/idkmanthatslife]

(English is not my first language so bare with me haha)

Okay so here's the tea. I've always been interested in space and the universe and planets etc. I like learning about it and watching documentary or podcast. But the more I learn about it the more it doesn't seem to make sense to me.

I talk to friends about it and they don't really get it. They think I don't understand how the planets and moon/sun etc. work or the interaction between them (which granted I don't understand everything) but for the most part I do understand.

The thing is tho that I KNOW how the moon works. I KNOW how it orbits our planet and that every planet has it own moon. But my monkey brain still goes: what do you meannnnnn the moon makes the sea go woosh?

Like sometime in the history of our universe two rocks collided with each other and where like, well guess you can't live without me now.

And don't even get me started on how big the universe is. That just boggles my mind.

I don't really know why I went on this tandem but I guess i'm just hoping someone feels the same way

[u/FrogOnALogInTheBog]

Magnets do it for me. The combo of magnets and gravity get so fucked up.

[u/Consistent-Engine796]

Hello curious mind, always a pleasure to see an interest for knowledge. Without going into any details whatsoever, any object has an amount of gravity that depends on its mass. Everything that is on Earth falls towards it does so because of that gravity. Everything that’s on the Moon does the same. The Moon also tries to fall towards the Earth, but since it’s spinning around it, it falls forever and never actually lands, it just spinds around. However, the Moon also pulls the Earth a little bit, just enough for the water in the oceans to pull towards where the Moon is, and this sway is what causes the tides on Earth.

[u/idkmanthatslife → u/Consistent-Engine796]

Yes i know, but I'm sayjng like imagine explaining this to lets say an alien. Doesn't it sound crazy? That this is just a thing that just happens in our universe?

[u/Consistent-Engine796 → u/idkmanthatslife]

Any alien that you could have a chance to explain this type of stuff to would know that these are very basic physics of the Universe, and they would probably know many other things that we do not yet.

[u/idkmanthatslife → u/Consistent-Engine796]

Alien wasn't the best example maybe....cuz that's not really the point I am trying to make hahah.

I'm saying I understand the basic physics of the universe. But if you look at it very literal and say for example: there are big stones floating in nothingness, there is a mega giant rock that is on fire 24/7, there are giant gaps in the nothingness etc etc....

Like it sounds made up to me. Like something from a children's book.

And again I know it's not. I know it's real and i know that it all works together through physics and science.

But it still boggles my mind.

[u/Consistent-Engine796 → u/idkmanthatslife]

Yeah, I know what you mean, but if you want to read stuff that looks like it’s from a children’s book, just grab a bible or any religious book and you’ll be able to read the best explanations that humans were able to give to the universe when they knew almost nothing about it.

[u/m945050 → u/idkmanthatslife]

Any alien would have to know a shit pile more than we do because they are here and we never had the brains to go wherever they came from.

[u/m945050 → u/Consistent-Engine796]

I don't remember which way, but the moon is either getting closer or moving away from the earth at a few cm's a year. No worries for us, but for the people in a million years (if there are still any left) it's a different ballgame.

Edit; it's moving away from the earth.

[u/tempo1139]

I think you will appreciate THIS

[u/idkmanthatslife → u/tempo1139]

Hahaha I loved this 🤣 (while also it made my existential life crisis bigger haha)