Is There a Limit to Greatness?

How big do you think something can be?

For example, a shoe? What is the highest size of your shoes?

Or a hat?

Mexican straw hats are quite large. After all, it is made to protect from the sun.

Okay, clothes, hats, shoes... these are mostly made.

I think there is a festival in Brazil, where there are giant puppet characters and they have very large clothes put on them, for example.

But you've probably never seen a garment the size of a mountain in your life.

Everything has its own logical size.

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By the way, as I say, there are countries shaped like boots in this world.

Although its shape just looks like a boot.

Yes, I'm talking about Italy, it has a shape similar to a drawing on a map, so Italy is not a real boot.

When you look from above, from space, etc., you see the boot shape.

After all, when you're walking around in Italy, you won't feel like you're walking on boots.

We cannot say that Italy is a boot in terms of function.

I'm not even sure how the clothes worn by the puppet heroes of festivals in Brazil can be called clothes.

Under normal circumstances, if a thing is used in accordance with its function, it is given a name appropriate to its function.

If you wear boots on your feet, they are boots.

If you make a huge sculpture in the shape of a boot, that huge thing is not a boot, it is a sculpture.

This is what I mean when I say function.

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Let's get to the initial question.

How big can something be?

For example, one of the things in the world that fits the exact definition and is quite large could be a crater.

There is the world's largest meteor crater in the state of Arizona in the United States.

Its diameter is 1200 meters! Its depth was 180 meters.

I remember there were larger craters, but this might be the largest that looked like a full crater.

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Then, if we are talking about big things, there are mountains, the highest of which is Everest. Its summit is 8849 meters.

Then there is the big ocean. It has a surface area of 165.2 million km2. 210 Turkeys can fit inside.

Then there is the world itself, of course the world is not very big as a planet, but it is a vast place for a person after all.

Jupiter is the largest of the planets in the solar system.

It is 11 times the diameter of the earth and 318 times the mass of the earth. In terms of volume, the ratio is much larger, 1320 worlds can fit inside. Because Jupiter is not a stone sphere like the earth. Jupiter is actually a hydrogen cloud. There is a rocky core at its center, surrounded by liquid hydrogen and helium, surrounded by hydrogen gas.

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But the biggest thing before our eyes is the sun itself.

If we compare it with Jupiter, not with the Earth, the sun is 1048 times the mass of Jupiter.

So is the sun, as a star, one of the biggest stars in the universe?

No!

The largest star detected in the universe so far is UY Scuti, its radius is 1708 times that of the Sun. The Sun remains a tiny dot next to this star.

With more advanced telescopes, much larger stars may be discovered tomorrow.

Maybe it has already been discovered. Because, according to calculations, it is thought that there should be much larger stars in the universe.

It is estimated that outside the boundaries of the universe we can observe, there are stars much larger than this so-called quasi-star, UY Scuti.

By the way, I looked at the internet again, I think another star larger than UY Scuty was discovered in the observable universe in 2022. His name is Stephenson 2-18. It is said to be a star approximately 2150 times larger than the Sun.

Of course, if the topic is galaxies rather than stars, something much bigger comes to mind.

After all, galaxies are huge star clusters made up of stars.

With a width of 16 million light years, the largest galaxy discovered so far is called the Alcyoneus Galaxy.

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There is no limit to this.

We call the largest objective concept the universe.

The concept of the universe, which includes all galaxies, is probably the biggest objective thing in our minds.

Yes, it is big, but big compared to what?

Now whatever you are referencing.

Yes, the concepts of bigness and smallness are also relative concepts.

Bigger or smaller than what? To understand this, we need to reference something.

But after all, it is not possible to compare apples and pears with each other. Don't mix now, we say apples and pears.

For example, when you say the largest living creature, the answer is the blue whale, whose weight can exceed 140 tons.

In fact, as far as is known, the blue whale is the largest and heaviest creature ever.

Even Argentinosaurus, the largest living creature whose fossil remains can be found from the time of the dinosaurs, is estimated to have weighed around 90 tons.

So the blue whale is a creature even larger than this extinct dinosaur.

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Is the sun bigger? Blue whale?

Is this a question now?

Isn't it obvious that the sun is bigger?

Actually, the answer to this question is not clear.

Because this is exactly the question of comparing apples and pears.

Because there are not enough criteria in the problem to fully understand the problem.

Bigger than what? Greater than what?

Be a living being

Is the arak bigger?

If you are asking about a living creature, I have already said that the largest living creature is the blue whale.

After all, the sun does not meet the vitality criteria. There are many nuclear reactions going on inside it and it moves, but the sun is not a living thing.

No, if the question is asked in terms of masses, or volume, and objectively which is larger, then yes, of course the sun is much larger next to a blue whale. But this criterion must be specified in the question.

The questions we ask must have sufficient criteria and details. Otherwise you cannot give the correct answer.

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However, depending on the subject, there is a difference between big and small.

It is not possible, but we can say that there is a maximum size produced to date, depending on the purpose of use.

If it's a shoe, for example, Jeison Rodriguez, who lives in Maracay, Venezuela, has feet size 63. Rodriguez's feet were 40 centimeters. With my mixture, it's almost two inches.

The largest shoe size in the world belongs to Robert Wadlow, size 75.

We also had a master who produced big shoes. Oncel Kalkan, who has a shop in Halep Passage on Istiklal Street, produces shoes with large numbers between 46 and 57. Since it produces these numbers, it means that we also have those with foot sizes in these numbers.

The shoe size 455, made by shoe master Zahit Okurlar in Konya, entered the Guinness book of records.

I really liked this information about shoes. That's why I wanted to share it.

These are information from inside life. Let it be in a corner of your mind.

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Since our subject is the concept of greatness, I think it would be useful to talk about not only objective but also spiritual greatness.

Who is the most generous person?

Is there a measure of being magnanimous?

What about love?

Is there a measure of love?

I love you as big as world!

Worlds wide! Well? This is how we say how much we love when we don't know how to describe it.

Of course, there is also the opposite.

You are so bad! How? How bad am I? That's a lot... There is no measure for being bad.

He is a great person!

So, being human also has greatness!

But “The greatest president is our president!” I'm not talking about the cheer slogan.

Even though there is no clear measure, some of them we call truly great people. Because they are great people.

In the past, he was also called a decent man. Or we would say, you are a man, you are great.

Nowadays, the world has started to give up on this sexist discourse. Now there is the concept of human.

Great person! You are great!

See, it gets better this way.

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Although this measure of greatness varies for each of us, being a great person is also related to being magnanimous.

Let me finish by saying greetings to the generous people.

With love and respect to everyone from Moscow.