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The scale of our universe.
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DeltruS
Canada2214 Posts
Use you right and left keyboard keys to move the slider. This makes me feel insignificant and inspired at the same time. | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
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deathgod6
United States5064 Posts
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KingFool
Canada428 Posts
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CKSide
United States223 Posts
pretty cool stuff. | ||
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ieatkids5
United States4628 Posts
On May 15 2010 16:35 deathgod6 wrote: I swear I saw Geoff when I zoomed all the way out. rofl nice one | ||
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EPO
Canada341 Posts
On May 15 2010 16:39 KingFool wrote: That was really neat, thanks it was indeed, pretty cool | ||
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LaughingTulkas
United States1107 Posts
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HDstarcraft
United States577 Posts
On May 15 2010 16:29 Saturnize wrote: I think the universe is alot bigger than that. Yes I think the scale might be wrong considering the universe in relation to the galaxy level. IT should be way bigger. | ||
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imDerek
United States1944 Posts
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FusionCutter
Canada974 Posts
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Maenander
Germany4926 Posts
On May 15 2010 16:55 HDstarcraft wrote: Yes I think the scale might be wrong considering the universe in relation to the galaxy level. IT should be way bigger. Our galaxy is 100,000 lightyears in diameter, while the universe is around 14,000,000,000 years old. The factor is "only" 140,000. (Note though that the universe is much bigger "nowadays" than what we observe, because it is expanding while the light travels to us. But "distance" as we know it is ill-defined on these scales anyway.) | ||
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Wings
United States999 Posts
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Eplekjekk
Norway40 Posts
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Maenander
Germany4926 Posts
I guess most of the stuff is accurate, but such small details make me uncertain  | ||
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Darcius
Canada16 Posts
Thanks for posting this. I'm going to show it to my friends. | ||
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kobbler
Canada36 Posts
Sweet stuff | ||
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betaben
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Narwhal
United Kingdom314 Posts
But its pretty big yo. YOU GOTTA SKATE | ||
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danl9rm
United States3111 Posts
On May 15 2010 18:10 betaben wrote: WARNING: this size of the subatomic particles is bull shit. they are considered point particles. also, the unseen universe is considered infinite. (lol-"we are probably not in the center") do you know what infinite means? take the time to consider that | ||
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betaben
681 Posts
On May 15 2010 18:24 danl9rm wrote: do you know what infinite means? take the time to consider that yes I do. take time to consider that, too. btw, have you considered what happens at the 'edge' of a finite universe? also, have you considered what "point particle" means? | ||
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EPO
Canada341 Posts
On May 15 2010 18:25 betaben wrote: yes I do. take time to consider that, too. btw, have you considered what happens at the 'edge' of a finite universe? ahhh just scared myself thinking about that. then I thought of futurama and realized there'd obviously be a parallel universe there, duh. | ||
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Maenander
Germany4926 Posts
On May 15 2010 18:25 betaben wrote: yes I do. take time to consider that, too. btw, have you considered what happens at the 'edge' of a finite universe? Physics can not tell anything about the size of the unseen universe at the moment (probably never ever will). Additionally, a finite universe doesn't have to have edges | ||
jhNz
Germany2762 Posts
btw the music absolutely blows... | ||
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OmgIRok
Taiwan2699 Posts
sorry looks like i beat you to it | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
On May 15 2010 18:10 betaben wrote: WARNING: this size of the subatomic particles is bull shit. they are considered point particles. also, the unseen universe is considered infinite. (lol-"we are probably not in the center") Ya i laughed at that too hehe | ||
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eNoq
Netherlands502 Posts
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alpskomleko
Slovenia950 Posts
I'd recommend this relevant interesting read about the WMAP project, which has quite literally taken a picture of the walls of the observable universe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMAP | ||
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Assault_1
Canada1950 Posts
On May 15 2010 23:36 eNoq wrote: the universe is probably a million times bigger than this, we can see far - but who knows, maybe it's just 0.00001% of everything. cant be, if it expanded at the speed of light since the big bang. | ||
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il0seonpurpose
Korea (South)5638 Posts
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alpskomleko
Slovenia950 Posts
On May 16 2010 01:43 Assault_1 wrote: cant be, if it expanded at the speed of light since the big bang. Well, the fabric of the universe is inflating faster than light between any two points, when the distance between them is large enough. In fact, there are countless galaxies that are indeed moving away from us faster than light, and which we won't be able to see at all at a certain point on the future. There's a good article on this at http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=575. | ||
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QuixoticO
Netherlands810 Posts
These things are always interesting to read about but actually thinking makes my mind fart itself. | ||
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DeathByMonkeys
United States742 Posts
On May 15 2010 18:12 Narwhal wrote: Hey, no one actually knows how big or if it expands or inflates yet. But its pretty big yo. YOU GOTTA SKATE You're doing it wrong... But yeah, I've had this in my favorites for a while. I think it's pretty amazing, every once in a while I go check it out to have my mind = blown. | ||
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neobowman
Canada3324 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii129/neoalbert/STTGL.jpg) | ||
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Masq
Canada1792 Posts
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Enfold
United States110 Posts
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Slunk
Germany768 Posts
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alpskomleko
Slovenia950 Posts
On May 15 2010 17:01 Liquid_Turbo wrote: This is much better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U And yes, this is the best representation I've seen so far of the scales we're talking about here. Deserves a wider popularity! | ||
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wishbones
Canada2600 Posts
im just curious if anyone knows how many pixels the image were zooming in and out of is. | ||
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Kenpachi
United States9908 Posts
and small | ||
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Masamune
Canada3401 Posts
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Gilynx
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On May 15 2010 16:25 Kraz.Del wrote: http://www.playedonline.com/game/597589/the-scale-of-the-universe.html Use you right and left keyboard keys to move the slider. This makes me feel insignificant and inspired at the same time. http://www.razerzone.com/getimba-share-n-win/ucbe45d User was banned for this post. | ||
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Zoler
Sweden6339 Posts
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Zoler
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sgeng
United States78 Posts
On May 15 2010 16:55 HDstarcraft wrote: Yes I think the scale might be wrong considering the universe in relation to the galaxy level. IT should be way bigger. Actually, it is indeed correct. The scale goes by orders of magnitude. You'll notice it goes from 10^0 to 10^3 to 10^6, etc, not 10, 20, 30, hence it's a logarithmic function, not a linear one. Thus every time you go up (or down) another level, you are increasing/decreasing by a much bigger amount than the previous level. | ||
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
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Win.win
United States230 Posts
On May 16 2010 03:30 Zoler wrote: this shit is driving me crazy, meaning of life and all that blabla It will put your mind at ease if you don't ask invalid questions like "what is the purpose/meaning of life". This may help: | ||
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Kong John
Denmark1020 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45434 Posts
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Garnet
Vietnam9036 Posts
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
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XeliN
United Kingdom1755 Posts
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RA
Latvia791 Posts
I have this small video which shows the stars the same way. That makes it feel visually more impressive. Really impressive. | ||
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Cytokinesis
Canada330 Posts
I love discovery channel! | ||
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RoosterSamurai
Japan2108 Posts
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GogoKodo
Canada1785 Posts
On May 19 2010 03:19 RoosterSamurai wrote: I wonder how accurate this is? I think most of it is just theories... Most of it? Looks like most of it is actually measured stuff. As others have pointed out there may be some numbers that are off at the very end of the big scale stuff. That doesn't mean this whole thing is "theories". What do you even mean by that anyway? | ||
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XeliN
United Kingdom1755 Posts
Theory, Sense 1 A scheme or system of ideas or statements held as an explanation or account of a group of facts or phenomena; a hypothesis that has been confirmed or established by observation or experiment, and is propounded or accepted as accounting for the known facts; a statement of what are held to be general laws, principles, or causes of something known or observed Theory, Sense 2 A hypothesis proposed as an explanation; hence, a mere hypothesis, speculation, conjecture; an idea or set of ideas about something; an individual view or notion. I'm gonna guess that you are leaning more towards the 2nd form Rooster. | ||
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XeliN
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SkelA
Macedonia13074 Posts
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wswordsmen
United States987 Posts
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EGMachine
United States1643 Posts
On May 15 2010 16:35 deathgod6 wrote: I swear I saw Geoff when I zoomed all the way out. LOL | ||
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RoosterSamurai
Japan2108 Posts
On May 19 2010 03:38 GogoKodo wrote: Most of it? Looks like most of it is actually measured stuff. As others have pointed out there may be some numbers that are off at the very end of the big scale stuff. That doesn't mean this whole thing is "theories". What do you even mean by that anyway? If you want to get all technical and argue semantics, then yes, "most" was a poor choice of word. "some" of it was theories. Nobody has measured the galaxy, and that approximation can not be proved, thus it is a theory. | ||
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
On May 19 2010 04:17 RoosterSamurai wrote: If you want to get all technical and argue semantics, then yes, "most" was a poor choice of word. "some" of it was theories. Nobody has measured the galaxy, and that approximation can not be proved, thus it is a theory. of course "it" (by "the galaxy" you probably mean the milky way) was measured already (albeit certainly not 100% accurate). to measure something you don't need to be able to walk across it's length. | ||
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wswordsmen
United States987 Posts
On May 19 2010 04:20 heishe wrote: of course "it" (by "the galaxy" you probably mean the milky way) was measured already (albeit certainly not 100% accurate). to measure something you don't need to be able to walk across it's length. You realize you can never measure something with 100% accuracy unless you define you unit by what you are measuring, all other measurements are subject to error. | ||
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RoosterSamurai
Japan2108 Posts
On May 19 2010 04:20 heishe wrote: of course "it" (by "the galaxy" you probably mean the milky way) was measured already (albeit certainly not 100% accurate). to measure something you don't need to be able to walk across it's length. I meant the universe. You caught me on an off day. My mistake, sorry. | ||
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pyrogenetix
China5098 Posts
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jax1492
United States1632 Posts
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
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TobZero
Germany493 Posts
this topic is something i think about really often and even read crazy theoretic physics books in my free time. if you are really into those ideas i have to add some great stuff which blows your mind: 1. the millennium simulation http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/press/ go check the site and make sure u look at the pics in highest res. than take some time to think about it and once you start to scratch the wohle thing your mind will go boooom (i recoment downloading the [poster.ps.gz, A0, 280 MB] its really worth it!) one thing more to note: when u look at those pictures keep in mind that each tiny spot of light is a whole GALAXY! (most amazing after seeing the zoom in/out youtube video!) 2. to go into it deeper i would recoment reading that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity and read it often, like OFTEN i think i read it through a bazillion times to get rdy for next point (i admit u have to be insane to go further in freetime but i know im crazy 3. next step is based on basic grasp on relativity and how you can "visualize" it: Imagining the tenth dimension part1/2 Imagining the tenth dimension part2/2 If you got so far -> some help: remember to imagine any dimension above the 3rd with the help of the second ("fold" the lower dimension to get into a higher one). this is so important to understand anything above 5th/6th. without the "folding" my brain told me after 6th: "lol wut?i can haz cookiez? after all that mindblowing stuff go back and watch the whole "how big is our universe" again!!!! who needs drugs when wiki and youtube can do better for free! Zira | ||
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Robstickle
Great Britain406 Posts
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