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"Our Universe, the "cosmic web". Each yellow dot is a galaxy. The purple streams represent dark matter." Now, take for instance our galaxy, the Milky Way. The Milky Way has about 300 billion stars in it. 300 billion. Our own solar system with its 1 star is so incredibly massive, and our galaxy has 300 billion of them. And that galaxy is just a little yellow blip on that picture. And that picture constitutes 0.000001% of the known universe.
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Gorp
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:53 |
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if the purple poo poo is dark matter then what's the black poo poo?
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:53 |
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Eat poo poo ya homo.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:54 |
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God made it and it's really pretty small and you'd been lied to.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:54 |
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Pretty cool imo
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:54 |
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Somewhere out there, there is hot rear end alien babes with huge rear end tittes. I hope we find out in our life times...
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:54 |
cock hero flux posted:if the purple poo poo is dark matter then what's the black poo poo? deep vacuum/dark energy
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The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall (Her–CrB GW) is an immense superstructure of galaxies that measures more than 10 billion light-years across.[1][2] It is the largest and the most massive structure known in the observable universe. According to the cosmological principle, any visible random fluctations of the quantities of distribution of matter and energy within the universe will be considered sufficiently small in extremely large scales. This means that the universe will be properly homogenized and isotropized due to the basic assumption that the universe is governed by the same laws of physics regardless of location, space and time. The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall is more than eight times larger than the scale,[4] and so greatly exceeds the homogeneity scale. In accordance with this, the structure would still be heterogeneous as compared to the other parts of the universe even at the scale of the "End of Greatness", thereby putting the cosmological principle into further doubt. The structure also poses a problem to the current models of the universe's evolution. A light travel distance of 10 billion light years means that we see the structure as it was 10 billion years ago, or roughly 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. Current models of the universe's evolution, however, do not allow the said structure to form in just a mere 3 billion years. The structure is itself too big, and too complex, to exist so early in the universe. There is currently no existing model to explain the existence of the structure. Such large structures like the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall may form part of the vast intergalactic cosmic web, an endless continuous sheet of galaxies and dark matter. Although this web was never directly observed, the relatively large sizes of structures in the nearby universe provides the possibility of the existence of this web. Such gigaparsec-scale structures, including the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall, may be the intersections of smaller subfilaments within this vast structure, where there are overdensities of galaxies connecting other filaments within this vast web. If verified, the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall will be one of the first evidences of the existence of this web.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:55 |
Kinda like my dick
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:55 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:56 |
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space is boring because there's nothing there
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:57 |
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everywhere you look, my dilz is there
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:57 |
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this some blind samurai master poo poo right here
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:57 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:58 |
Smoking Crow posted:space is boring because there's nothing there
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:58 |
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Thats a picture on 100% vacuum to a rounding error.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 03:59 |
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cool *takes massive bong rip*
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:00 |
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It's so big that our existence is at what level? Cellular? Atomic? Subatomic? Is there any such thing as scale? Given how small one can go into the depths of matter.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:01 |
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Smoking Crow posted:space is boring because there's nothing there Wrong. Space is where I keep all my stuff.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:02 |
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this is the sombrero galaxy, which looks that way because a supermassive black hole in the center has flattened everything out sort of like a pizza crust when you spin it around. it's believed that what's in that picture are the remains of a small galaxy that was almost entirely eaten by it.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:02 |
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made by dyson i see
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:04 |
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What if we're just atoms in a dude's finger in some higher dimension?
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:05 |
NGC 1365
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:05 |
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redshirt posted:What if we're just atoms in a dude's finger in some higher dimension? possible, but i don't think it's very likely. if you had a creature in the shape of a human that was the size of the solar system, it would take him hours just to scratch the top of his head because of the distance his arm would have to travel from his waist. there's a theoretical limit on how big a living creature could reasonably be. the fourth dimension also doesn't work that way. people have reasonably calculated what it's like up to the 11th dimension but poo poo gets complicated really quickly.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:07 |
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Robo Reagan posted:possible, but i don't think it's very likely. if you had a creature in the shape of a human that was the size of the solar system, it would take him hours just to scratch the top of his head because of the distance his arm would have to travel from his waist. there's a theoretical limit on how big a living creature could reasonably be Solar system? That's tiny! The Universe, man. All of it, is just an atom in some higher dimension.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:07 |
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Honestly we should make space smaller so it's more convenient to get around and poo poo.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:08 |
redshirt posted:Solar system? That's tiny! The Universe, man. All of it, is just an atom in some higher dimension. poopzilla posted:cool
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:08 |
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Robo Reagan posted:The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall (Her–CrB GW) built by aliens. yo really though that first pic makes it obvious our "cosmos" is really the cellular material of some impossibly vast being playing dominoes and chain-smoking and probably an average dipshit in its community-at-large
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:09 |
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It's not so far fetched either if you consider the Big Bang Theory.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:09 |
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nomadologique posted:built by aliens. unlikely, the universe is flat as far as we know.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:11 |
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Robo Reagan posted:unlikely, the universe is flat as far as we know. no that's just your mom
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:14 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:14 |
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Yeah, there are stars that make our Sun look like a tiny pea. Big space, mon.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:15 |
redshirt posted:Yeah, there are stars that make our Sun look like a tiny pea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUJzYSswcj0
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:16 |
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i wish the sun was blue
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:20 |
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Robo Reagan posted:unlikely, the universe is flat as far as we know. that's okay you're allowed to have stupid opinions.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:22 |
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Its infinitely large and infinitely small.
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# ? Jun 5, 2014 04:23 |
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science fact: if you could instantaneously travel 66 million light years away, you could look back at earth and watch the asteroid impact which drove the dinosaurs to extinction blowing your mind
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Omi-Polari posted:science fact: Unlikely at that distance.
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