[hollander]

> I frankly can't really comprehend what does the mass of an entire mountain condensed into a single pebble mean.

Maybe turn it around. On a cosmic level, that mountain is nothing but a fluff of cottonwool, the earth a hot air balloon.

[ourmandave]

Or turn around again. Zoom out far enough and maybe there's a view where the pulsar is comparably no more that a lit sparkler.

Note: This isn't an argument for god or whatever. Just thinking on scales where our "laughing in the rain" is a nightmare for ants.

[itishappy]

That's us! We're not bathed in pulsar brilliance, we're picking up the sparse but energetic photons it emits from far far away. We cannot see the "highest energy pulsar" with our naked eyes.

[swayvil]

>This isn't an argument for god or whatever...

It better not be. This is a proper orthodox forum.