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03-05-2014, 12:05 AM | #1532 |
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Damn, I love this thread...a beautiful place to escape from football and politics and soar through the universe every once in a while...
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03-05-2014, 12:31 AM | #1533 |
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03-05-2014, 01:43 PM | #1534 |
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Light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles a second or 700 million miles an hour. For scale, the distance from the Earth to the Moon is about 239,000 miles. This seems pretty fast and indeed theory says that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
The length of time it takes to go from: Earth to Moon: 1.3 seconds Earth to Sun: 8.3 minutes Sun to Pluto: 5 hours 40 minutes Our solar system to the nearest star(Alpha Centauri): 4.3 years Across our galaxy: 100,000 years To the Andromeda Galaxy: 2.5 million years |
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03-05-2014, 02:05 PM | #1535 |
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IC1101 Beefcake galaxy. The largest we've found.
Just how large is it? Prepare to have your mind blown, because this galaxy has a diameter of 6-million light-years and a mass of about 100-trillion stars. It is nearly 50x the size of our very own Milky Way galaxy and 2000x as massive. If our galaxy were to be replaced with this super-giant, it would swallow up both Magellanic clouds, the Andromeda galaxy, the Triangulum galaxy, and almost all the space in between. That is simply staggering. http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/i...xy-ever-found/ |
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03-05-2014, 03:31 PM | #1536 | |
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The "territory" for lack of a better word was there, I assume... so it was all just a big blank canvas before the bang? if so, what created the bang that caused all of this?... what creates INFINITY? |
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03-05-2014, 03:45 PM | #1537 | |
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The great thing is, its ok to say we don't know~ |
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03-05-2014, 03:48 PM | #1538 | |
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Infinity is talked about a little in the article that I posted on the last page before this one. A "Steady state" where new matter is created and old matter joins stars so a balance is maintained. Again, no one knows for sure. 30 years ago the accepted astrophysics dogma was that black holes were not real. The way physics and astrophsics has advanced in the last year, I think its only going to be 10 years when before many theories we think now is thrown out. We have no idea what dark matter is for crissakes. |
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03-05-2014, 04:23 PM | #1539 | |
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What we see of the infinity of space is just one side of infinity, on the other side of a collapsed black hole as you say... I like that, our infinity is but one of many. Just another reason for me to reject the idea of no higher, intelligent power than man. |
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03-05-2014, 04:45 PM | #1540 | |
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It's really difficult to imagine an outer edge of the universe. But then again, trying to imagine infinity might be even more difficult yet. |
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03-05-2014, 05:06 PM | #1541 | |
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Not trying to snark, but its a pretty big conundrum, even guys like Hawking haven't wrapped their heads all the way around it yet. |
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03-05-2014, 05:14 PM | #1542 |
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03-05-2014, 05:16 PM | #1543 |
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03-05-2014, 06:05 PM | #1544 |
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03-05-2014, 06:16 PM | #1545 |
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