[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
And the question at the center of it all…where did all this “stuff” that makes up the universe come from?![/quote]
I got bored one day.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
And the question at the center of it all…where did all this “stuff” that makes up the universe come from?![/quote]
I think that a lot of people would answer that question with “God”…
There is a brilliant series on BBC at the moment, in the UK, on our solar system which I advise people to check out.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
And the question at the center of it all…where did all this “stuff” that makes up the universe come from?![/quote]
that’s the question
<The Big Bang Machine
Also a machine that can mimic on a tiny scale what happened after the Big Bang:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/30/tech/main6346119.shtml
@Captain Quark - I’ve been hooked on that program. Literally cannot get enough of it. I love space, forgot how much into it I was when I was younger.
Those galaxies - 14 billion light years away, how far away it is… it is literally impossible to comprehend how far we are away from everything.
What gets me is how empty, yet how full space is, if that makes ANY sense
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
And the question at the center of it all…where did all this “stuff” that makes up the universe come from?![/quote]
From the crests of undulating one-dimensional membranes touching each other.
[quote]Bambi wrote:
@Captain Quark - I’ve been hooked on that program. Literally cannot get enough of it. I love space, forgot how much into it I was when I was younger.
Those galaxies - 14 billion light years away, how far away it is… it is literally impossible to comprehend how far we are away from everything.
What gets me is how empty, yet how full space is, if that makes ANY sense[/quote]
It’s also that same emptiness that is causing some of the most difficult questions in our quest to learn more about space, because the placement of these huge gaps of “nothing”(unimaginably large black holes, dark matter/energy, intersecting points of other universes, there are plenty of hypothesis) make absolutely no sense with a lot of the current theories we have.
Also as to the comments about the unknown space of our oceans/jungles and whatnot, while I agree that we should finish exploring our planet before we attempt to master space(although technological bounds are preventing both), you can’t say we know “less” about the ocean, it really is just a matter of mathematics. The combined oceans’ full size is limited to some % of the size of the earth(probably a fairly small % even), even just “known” space is borderline impossible to conceive in its vastness, let alone the possibility that we are wrong and it is indeed infinite(an assumption we have to make to attempt to learn about it).
I dont like all that physic mumbo-jumbo. Even the most basic things in relativity like the non-simultaneity of events is hard to understand so I take the babbling of forumites on physic a grain of salt.
mtylermartin…Want to explain that? LOL
[quote]jasmincar wrote:
I dont like all that physic mumbo-jumbo. Even the most basic things in relativity like the non-simultaneity of events is hard to understand so I take the babbling of forumites on physic a grain of salt.
mtylermartin…Want to explain that? LOL[/quote]
[quote]jasmincar wrote:
mtylermartin…Want to explain that? LOL[/quote]
Uh… not really but I can look for some website that can.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
It would suck if we found the edge of the universe and realized there was nothing else out there. Seriously.[/quote]
…haven’t read the rest of the thread, but scientist discovered something they call “darkflow” and this flow may indicate giant masses outside our universe, e.i. other universes: Mysterious cosmic 'dark flow' tracked deeper into universe -- ScienceDaily
Something form Stephen King’s Dark tower series-
"The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness of space. The child: What is beyond space? The father: The galaxy. The child: Beyond the galaxy? The father: Another galaxy. The child: Beyond the other galaxies? The father: No one knows.
"You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box abd cover it with wet weeds to die?
"Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.
"If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through the shell (or find a door), what great and torrential light might shine through your opening at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?
"Perhaps you saw what place our universe plays in the scheme of things - as no more than an atom in a blade of grass. Could it be that everything we can perceive, from the microscopic virus to the distant Horsehead Nebula, is contained in one blade of grass that may have existed for only a single season in an alien time-flow? What if that blade should be cut off by a scythe? When it begins to die, would the rot seep into our universe and our own lives, turning everthing yellow and brown and desiccated? Perhaps it’s already begun to happen. We say the world has moved on; maybe we really mean that it has begun to dry up.
"Think how small such a concept of things make us, gunslinger! If a God watches over it all, does He actually mete out justice for such a race of gnats? Does His eye see the sparrow fall when the sparrow is less than a speck of hydrogen floating disconnected in the depth of space? And if He does see… what must the nature of such a God be? Where does He live? How is it possible to live beyond infinity?
“Imagine the sand of the Mohaine Desert, which you crossed to find me, and imagine a trillion universes - not worlds by universes - encapsulated in each grain of that desert; and within each universe an infinity of others. We tower over these universes from our pitiful grass vantage point; with one swing of your boot you may knock a billion billion worlds flying off into darkness, a chain never to be completed.”
http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/the_dark_tower_the_gunslinger_size.shtml
[quote]ephrem wrote:
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
It would suck if we found the edge of the universe and realized there was nothing else out there. Seriously.[/quote]
…haven’t read the rest of the thread, but scientist discovered something they call “darkflow” and this flow may indicate giant masses outside our universe, e.i. other universes: Mysterious cosmic 'dark flow' tracked deeper into universe -- ScienceDaily [/quote]
Very cool.
Now someone needs to discover how we can effectively bend time and travel quickly across millions of light years in space, ala Event Horizon (without the evil stuff, lol).
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]ephrem wrote:
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
It would suck if we found the edge of the universe and realized there was nothing else out there. Seriously.[/quote]
…haven’t read the rest of the thread, but scientist discovered something they call “darkflow” and this flow may indicate giant masses outside our universe, e.i. other universes: Mysterious cosmic 'dark flow' tracked deeper into universe -- ScienceDaily [/quote]
Very cool.
Now someone needs to discover how we can effectively bend time and travel quickly across millions of light years in space, ala Event Horizon (without the evil stuff, lol).[/quote]
…perhaps that starts here: “(…) that there exists a connection between the members of such a pair that defies both classical and relativistic concepts of space and time.”
and just in case anyone ever wondered what the orbits of the planets would sound like as a musical instrument:
waits for thebodyguard to come ruin the party
This diagram is inaccurate…Chuck norris is the final ring
This diagram is inaccurate…Chuck norris is the final ring
Damn, Pluto takes so long to get around the sun.
this thread is sick…its bugging me out!! but i cant stop reading about it…sometimes when my freinds and have a few too many drinks and this topic is brought up it leads to some really really funny conversations give it a shot next time…like, “dude, space is huge, when does it end??” than let your drunk friends chime in with their 2cents haha
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