The Solar System is cool and scary.
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Can't find a good Pacman warp tunnel gif to stick in here, but that's what I thought of... go out one side come back in on the other. Describing it as round gives it a physical shape though, a big ball. What's outside the ball?
There's all kinds of theories out there; theories I don't read because they are a complete mind-fuck.
Furthest viewable item known to man is a galaxy 13 billion light years away (Record-breaking galaxy found at the edge of the Universe : Bad Astronomy
It leaves one to wonder if the black nothingness of space stretches on and eventually becomes devoid of any matter at all... just nothingness that goes on forever. Or, if the black nothingness has a legitimate end, and what's after that?
After you pass the edge of the universe?:
theres no "after". the concept of space ends at the "edge".
then nothing. its still locally flat.
if its round the way he means it, it does not end. you could travel in one direction a really long time and would arrive at the point you started.
theres nothing outside the ball. thats what the brain fails to grasp. you always think of things as "on the earth" or "in space". theres no space beyond the universe. the universe isnt embedded in some higher order space. its just there. even if it was, that space would be different from ours and you couldnt exist in it.
while its true that you could in theory travel "around" the whole ball, the ball expands faster than you can travel, preventing you from making an entire revolution.
So you believe, but that's not proven. For all we know, our universe could be like the marbles in Men in Black.
The concept of their being just nothing, like white space, not even white space... just nothing, goes against the mind's comprehension of existence. It's far easier to comprehend the idea that the black void of space simply stretches on for infinity, but is still equally as insane. It's this very kind of thing that can make one see the limits of human comprehension, which is pretty freaky too.
So you believe, but that's not proven. For all we know our universe could be like the marbles in Men in Black.
weve proven more things than youd believe
^^^
The Huffington article I posted earlier made an interesting point, that there might be about 300 sextillion stars in the universe which, coincidentally, is about the same number of cells making up all the humans on Earth.
Which of course leads to this...
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The Huffington article I posted earlier made an interesting point, that there might be about 300 sextillion stars in the universe which, coincidentally, is about the same number of cells making up all the humans on Earth.
Which of course leads to this...
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This one has always blown my mind.
Scale of the universe.
Let's you see measurements from as small as the quantum foam to the estimated scale of the observable universe.
Scale of the Universe 2
Scale of the universe.
Let's you see measurements from as small as the quantum foam to the estimated scale of the observable universe.
Scale of the Universe 2
Another interesting thought is that images taken like this are a real-time look into the past. Because of however many millions of years it takes the light to reach the telescope. So, in a very real sense, you're looking directly into past.
Like, if you get on a super, high-powered telescope here on earth and check out some star millions of light years away, even though you're seeing it as you sit there, it could have died a million years prior. You're essentially looking back in time. :hollering:
That is always cool to think about, but even a million years is a small amount "i believe" in an evolutionary measurement of the universe.
So you believe, but that's not proven. For all we know, our universe could be like the marbles in Men in Black.
Personally, I have always just chosen to believe this. Makes as much sense as anything else, and I have known aliens in human skins.
Most of you fuckers qualify...
But it begs the question, if someone was out there, looking back at our earth, would they be looking at the past? If they could see the surface, would they see Pangea, because that is the reflected light that has reached them? If we're viewing light that has traveled millions of light years, essentially seeing the past, it means there are light waves in the universe holding the history of... well, everything. You only need to be able to view them.
This is making my head hurt.