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The Known Universe
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If you enjoyed that, here's another classic. Even if the music is not Elmer Bernstein's finest composition.
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And who thinks the known universe is in the shape of a sphere? A very simple model to be polite. Overall it was cool, guess I'll settle for the moon orbit shown in lieu of the moon.
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Actually, the known universe is a sphere almost by definition.
"known universe" is very different than "Universe". The known universe is the realm of 3D space that we can see photons from, where the edge of it would be the photons from the Big Bang. Since the universe is isotropic to several places after the decimal, a sphere is an appropriate shape for it.
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I feel very insignificant now....but I could listen to Philip Morrison all day long.
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If it weren't, what would it exist within? Was there no universe before the big bang? Or was there just no universe as we know it? If the former, within "what" did the big bang occur? If the universe is infinitely large does "large" have any meaning? Are parts of the universe infinitely small, rendering "small" just as meaningless? Can the infinitely small reside within the infinitely large? Or are they the same infinite space?
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How long did it take for the camera/space ship to go from the earth, out all the way and back to earth? And what kind of camera/space ship was it?
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Beautiful piece of science and art. Thanks for the link!
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What makes you think we understand it? We don't even know what the hell it is.
We are as insignificant as it gets. |
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How can you say we're insignificant when we've invented the motorized bar stool?
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And the unknown universe is infinitely large, yes?
By definition, unknown If it weren't, what would it exist within? a hyperverse Was there no universe before the big bang? there is speculation that the visible universe in which we live is a sort of quantum bubble derived from a larger multi dimensional hyperverse, along w/ ours there are speculated to be an infinite # of other so called bubble universes w/ varying physical properties, the one we live is anthropomorphically friendly to our sort of life Or was there just no universe as we know it? see above If the former, within "what" did the big bang occur? see above If the universe is infinitely large does "large" have any meaning? only relative to something else Are parts of the universe infinitely small, rendering "small" just as meaningless? no, there is a limit to smallness too, the Planck length is speculated to be the length at which reality becomes dominated by quantum effects giving it discrete structure
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Thanks Bill.
NOW I understand! 
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if u have an hour to burn and interested in astronomy cosmology and the such. AWESOME lecture!
YouTube - 'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 |
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