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Offline Gh0stFT

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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #30 on: January 25, 2013, 06:25:08 AM »
Quote from: skorpx1 on January 24, 2013, 08:14:14 PM
Space is big, but humans will never know how big until we can travel faster than the speed of light. Possible? Maybe.

MUCH faster then Lightspeed, even with double or tripple lightspeed it would still take forever ;)
and i dont talk about reaching the next galaxy, flying from one end to the other end in our own galaxy
takes aprox 100 000 years with lightspeed. (Einstein's time dilation not included)
Dont even think about to reach the "end" of the universe in the near future :D

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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #31 on: January 25, 2013, 06:38:55 AM »
 

Quote from: GScholz on January 25, 2013, 05:10:53 AM
The universe is so mindbogglingly beautiful and fantastic that I wholeheartedly agree with Tim Minchin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

:rofl :rofl :rofl

Crap....i think i dated Storm

Excellent post  :aok
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #32 on: January 25, 2013, 06:41:31 AM »
Quote from: Gh0stFT on January 25, 2013, 06:25:08 AM
MUCH faster then Lightspeed, even with double or tripple lightspeed it would still take forever ;)
and i dont talk about reaching the next galaxy, flying from one end to the other end in our own galaxy
takes aprox 100 000 years with lightspeed. (Einstein's time dilation not included)
Dont even think about to reach the "end" of the universe in the near future :D

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It'd take 3000 light years to go from the end of the galaxy we're in now to the other end if we did it by the width. I think we'd have to be going at least 1000x the speed of light to be able to zip around in our own galaxy first.
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #33 on: January 25, 2013, 07:04:14 AM »
Quote from: skorpx1 on January 25, 2013, 06:41:31 AM
It'd take 3000 light years to...

Light years is not a measure of time, and it would take more than a hundred thousand years to cross the Milky Way at the speed of light.
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #34 on: January 25, 2013, 07:05:05 AM »
Quote from: mbailey on January 25, 2013, 06:38:55 AM
Crap....i think i dated Storm

You poor soul... Was it worth it?  ;)
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #35 on: January 25, 2013, 07:51:43 AM »
Quote from: SilverZ06 on January 24, 2013, 09:40:04 PM
and that there is a god that created it all.. :rofl where was god when he created it?  :rofl simple minded sheeple


I, however, believe that the Universe was sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure. I live in perpetual fear of the time that I call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief"
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #36 on: January 25, 2013, 08:24:42 AM »
Quote from: SilverZ06 on January 24, 2013, 09:40:04 PM
and that there is a god that created it all.. :rofl where was god when he created it?  :rofl simple minded sheeple

You don't know.  You can't explain the origins of the universe any more than anyone else.  So until you can, your just as simple minded as everyone else.  Put that in your pipe and smoke it, smart boy.   :rolleyes:
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #37 on: January 25, 2013, 08:43:06 AM »
"An alternative, favored by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis. "  -  Terry Pratchett
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #38 on: January 25, 2013, 08:43:20 AM »
Quote from: BreakingBad on January 25, 2013, 08:24:42 AM
You don't know.  You can't explain the origins of the universe any more than anyone else.  So until you can, your just as simple minded as everyone else.  Put that in your pipe and smoke it, smart boy.   :rolleyes:

Holy crap!  Are you stalking me, because I just did?!?!

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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #39 on: January 25, 2013, 08:43:35 AM »
Not wanting to fan the flames, but there is a big, big, difference between claiming you know the answer, and claiming you're searching for the answer and have a theory.
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #40 on: January 25, 2013, 01:01:04 PM »
Quote from: GScholz on January 25, 2013, 07:05:05 AM
You poor soul... Was it worth it?  ;)

Absolutley....i was 18, wasnt her mind i was intrested in  :O


Im reading a really good book at the moment....Lawrence Krauss'   A Universe from Nothing.... Its about how all the mass and matter in the universe could have come a singular point of infinate mass, as described from an astrophysics point of view.....Basically hes discussing the principles behind the Big Bang......Its a pretty good read if your into that kind of stuff.  Available on Kindle for under 10bucks.  
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #41 on: January 25, 2013, 01:24:19 PM »
Quote from: mbailey on January 25, 2013, 01:01:04 PM
Absolutley....it was 18, wasnt her mind i was intrested in  :O


Im reading a really good book at the moment....Lawrence Krauss'   A Universe from Nothing.... Its about how all the mass and matter in the universe could have come a singular point of infinate mass, as described from an astrophysics point of view.....Basically hes discussing the principles behind the Big Bang......Its a pretty good read if your into that kind of stuff.  Available on Kindle for under 10bucks. 


Hey!  That was in the recommended books on my list in my Kindle.  Let me know how it is, I may purchase that.  It look interesting.
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #42 on: January 25, 2013, 01:32:25 PM »
Haha... Good for you mbailey ;)
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #43 on: January 25, 2013, 04:26:57 PM »
Quote from: titanic3 on January 24, 2013, 02:13:00 PM
Makes me sad that people fight wars with the knowledge that they are dust particles.

   The thing is in man's reality, all those clusters of galaxies to him are just dust particles.
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Re: Space Is Big
« Reply #44 on: January 25, 2013, 05:18:27 PM »
Quote from: mbailey on January 24, 2013, 02:17:05 PM
This always blew my mind.....There are more galaxys in the universe, than grains of sand on the Earth.

or

A teaspoon of a Neutron Star would weigh as much as a mountain

http://io9.com/5805244/what-would-a-teaspoonful-of-neutron-star-do-to-you
How about one of those Neutron stars spinning at 714Mhz? When my machine is idle it looks for pulsars through the Einstein@home project. Gotta love it. AN object about 14km across making 714 rotations per second.


A massive star has seconds to live the instant it fuses silicon into iron. Amazing how even one of the smallest objects can wipe out one of the larger ones.
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