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The Size of the Universe

  • 05-02-2013 12:11AM
    #1
    Ranicand
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    Opinions what lies beyond the visible universe?



    Edit if your gong to watch the above flick it to 720P and full screen.


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  • #2
    Kichote
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    About three fiddy wide and three fiddy across


  • #3
    SafeSurfer
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    There is probably a Harvey Normans and PC World on the outskirts of the known universe, with ample free parking.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #4
    Durz0 Blint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭Durz0 Blint


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKnpPCQyUec


  • #5
    EoghanIRL
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    Yore ma


  • #6
    HTML5!
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    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    There is probably a Harvey Normans and PC World on the outskirts of the known universe, with ample free parking.

    There's definitely a Starbucks.


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  • #7
    orestes
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    Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.


  • #8
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    The sheer scale of the thing is mindblowing. We really are nothing in the grand scheme of things, we're specks on a speck in space.


  • #9
    Havermeyer
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    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    There is probably a Harvey Normans and PC World on the outskirts of the known universe, with ample free parking.

    And a Ryanair terminal...


  • #10
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Ranicand wrote: »
    Opinions what lies beyond the visible universe?

    Cosmonster: going to eat the universe.


  • #11
    orestes
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    nummnutts wrote: »
    And a Ryanair terminal...

    Nah, you get dropped off at the edge of the pegasus galaxy and then you have to get a shuttle the rest of the way.


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  • #12
    BillyMitchel
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    So if you started off at one point and just kept going and going and going and going. Would you end up back where you started or would you hit a big black wall with a sign saying no exit?

    Fascinating stuff batman.


  • #13
    toastedpickles
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    Kichote wrote: »
    About three fiddy wide and three fiddy across

    God damn loch ness monster! get your own god damn universe! Comin round here measuring our universe

    That crazy ol' monster


    On a more serious note, just to give a scale to the size of things, astronomers found a region full of quasars 4 billion light years wide so in short it would take 4 billion years to just get from one side to the other, provided you don't get killed, or die :P

    Also take a look at this if your really bothered
    http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/01/the-largest-structure-universe-discovered-quasar-group-4-billion-light-years-wide-challenges-current.html


  • #14
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Right. here's the thing, the universe is 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times bigger thhan you think it is, and that's just the known one, the unknown one is 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 bigger than that :)


  • #15
    Chuck Stone
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    The Universe may be big but Jungle is Massive.


  • #16
    BillyMitchel
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    My head hurts.

    Ok, so if time wasn't a problem or fuel for my massive rocket want either. What would happen when we reach the end? Is there an end?! And yes my rocket could make It that far.


  • #17
    from_atozinc
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    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    My head hurts.

    Ok, so if time wasn't a problem or fuel for my massive rocket want either. What would happen when we reach the end? Is there an end?! And yes my rocket could make It that far.


    Yes there is an end. You would crash in to a big stone wall in the rocket.


  • #18
    Totofan99
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    This website give a really good idea of how small and how big the universe is if anyone is interested. You can actually spend quite a while messing around here!

    http://htwins.net/scale2/


  • #19
    Totofan99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭Totofan99


    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    My head hurts.

    Ok, so if time wasn't a problem or fuel for my massive rocket want either. What would happen when we reach the end? Is there an end?! And yes my rocket could make It that far.

    I'm not sure there's an answer to this. I don't think anyone knows if the universe is infinite in size or not!


  • #20
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Kichote wrote: »
    About three fiddy wide and three fiddy across

    Wide IS across.


  • #21
    kraggy
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    Another way of seeing it is the journey of Voyager 1.

    It has a top speed of 62,000 km/h and has been traveling for 35 years. Yet, it is only leaving the solar system at the moment.

    The solar system only makes up a tiny fraction of our galaxy, The Milky Way.

    And there are an estimated 200 BILLION galaxies.


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  • #22
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    The universe is twice as big as half a universe. Its always good to simplify a problem. Now all we have to do is measure half a universe.

    Who wants to hold on to the end if this tape measure....?


  • #23
    endacl
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    kraggy wrote: »

    Wide IS across.
    Universes are complicated. Deal with it.


  • #24
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    endacl wrote: »
    Universes are complicated. Deal with it.

    Excuse me?


  • #25
    endacl
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    kraggy wrote: »

    Excuse me?
    Tongue was in cheek! Forgot the smiley...


  • #26
    Recidivist
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    Totofan99 wrote: »
    This website give a really good idea of how small and how big the universe is if anyone is interested. You can actually spend quite a while messing around here!

    http://htwins.net/scale2/


    That's wonderful - thank you.


  • #27
    GTDolanator
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    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    The Universe may be big but Jungle is Massive.



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL2Bgj-za5k


  • #28
    CreepingDeath
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    Ranicand wrote: »
    Opinions what lies beyond the visible universe?

    The universe is bigger than our visible universe, so "more of the same" until you reach "the edge".

    Outside our universe I imagine standard physics breaks down.
    Our universe is like an air bubble in a glass of water.
    We can breathe in the bubble, but trying going beyond it and the rules change.


  • #29
    srsly78
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    The greeks had this figured out thousands of years ago ffs. Achilles goes to edge of universe and throws spear out - spear keeps going. Therefore the universe is infinite.

    Modern science has not improved on this thought experiment, well except maybe nowadays we might imagine Achilles in a spacesuit.


  • #30
    KungPao
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    Totofan99 wrote: »
    This website give a really good idea of how small and how big the universe is if anyone is interested. You can actually spend quite a while messing around here!

    http://htwins.net/scale2/

    Could listen to that music forever!


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  • #31
    CreepingDeath
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    srsly78 wrote: »
    The greeks had this figured out thousands of years ago ffs. Achilles goes to edge of universe and throws spear out - spear keeps going. Therefore the universe is infinite.

    Modern science has not improved on this thought experiment, well except maybe nowadays we might imagine Achilles in a spacesuit.

    You cannot use a thought experiment to conclude the universe is infinite, even if you back it up with "ffs".

    If the universe were expanding faster than the speed of light then we'd never be able to catch up with the expanding edge to leave it, so from our perspective it would appear to be infinite.
    The edge would be like a carrot on a stick to us.

    That doesn't mean it is infinite in size already.


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