Astronomy / Space Huge universe mapped - how small are we

Neo-ST

Neo-ST
This is...frightening :eek:
But you know what's even more frightening?
At the end, if he continued to zoom in, he would discover another universe, very similar to this one, just on micro-level.
 

SuperG

S
Well I got the History channel box and one episode goes about this. But not alone with pictures but also animations renderings FX.
 

Hydrino

Hydrino
Cool animation for sure.

I surely hope FD include something like this, maybe in reverse, as the opening sequence for ED. Something akin to some Cosmos style stuff.

It can't be this long and slow of course, but this sets a great tone for the scale of the game.
 

Calaban

Calaban
I got something even more amazing about that trip and sense of scale.

Want to know the coldest places anywhere in that mapped Universe? Right here in our absolute zero research labs!!

A billionth of a degree from absolute zero is colder than anywhere else. period. The Cosmic background radiation permeating everywhere keeps things 2-3 kelvin above absolute zero, no matter how distant or remote it may be.

Our labs are even colder than the center of the Great Bootes Void

Now that makes us feel kind of special, doesnt it?
 

Surfinjo

Surfinjo
Calaban said:
I got something even more amazing about that trip and sense of scale.

Want to know the coldest places anywhere in that mapped Universe? Right here in our absolute zero research labs!!

A billionth of a degree from absolute zero is colder than anywhere else. period. The Cosmic background radiation permeating everywhere keeps things 2-3 kelvin above absolute zero, no matter how distant or remote it may be.

Our labs are even colder than the center of the Great Bootes Void

Now that makes us feel kind of special, doesnt it?
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That is interesting.

I sometimes wonder if somewhere in the universe, some civilization isn't experiencing the knock on effects of all the things we do here, from splitting atoms to our own dear Large Hadron Collider and desperately trying to make some sort of sense out of it all.

Who knows, they may even have concluded we are their gods and we are angry at them for some perfectly innocent pleasure.
 

Pomerlaw

Pomerlaw
Calaban said:
I got something even more amazing about that trip and sense of scale.

Want to know the coldest places anywhere in that mapped Universe? Right here in our absolute zero research labs!!

A billionth of a degree from absolute zero is colder than anywhere else. period. The Cosmic background radiation permeating everywhere keeps things 2-3 kelvin above absolute zero, no matter how distant or remote it may be.

Our labs are even colder than the center of the Great Bootes Void

Now that makes us feel kind of special, doesnt it?
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One theory I'm really interested in right now is that the Universe will reach absolute zero in the future. In that theory, the Universe isn't going to absolute disorder and heat death, just going from one order to another type of order (ultimate grouping order--pre bing bang super atom to perfect balance of symmetry order).

It is also in line with the accelerating expansion - The list of possible states is diminishing, and since we must include a perfect state of symmetry in the possible configurations the Universe can have, it makes sense that this state already exist and is pushing our time dimension toward this goal, faster and faster.

Every configuration we can observe in the Universe, atoms, galaxies, life, can be explained by the interactions between the two orders. Spirals being an example where both forces (grouping and symmetry) interact to form something truly beautiful.

Theory also gives an explanation for forces of nature, including gravity. Gravity is time moving backwards (represents the force of backwards probabilities), trying to pull matter back together in the alpha configuration.

All credits to Gevin Giorbran, RIP.
 

Enride

Enride
Surfinjo said:
That is interesting.

I sometimes wonder if somewhere in the universe, some civilization isn't experiencing the knock on effects of all the things we do here, from splitting atoms to our own dear Large Hadron Collider and desperately trying to make some sort of sense out of it all.

Who knows, they may even have concluded we are their gods and we are angry at them for some perfectly innocent pleasure.
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Every intelligent lifeform forming anywhere in the universe, and survives long enough is bound to find out the "secrets" of their sun and its nuclear fusion.
But along that path lies the discovery of the much easier fission.

So any intelligent life anywhere in the universe who lives long enough is bound to discover nuclear fission, for good and bad.
 
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