Most detailed image of the CMBR reveals an almost perfect Universe.
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[QUOTE][IMG]http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2013/planck_cmb.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Acquired by ESA's Planck space telescope, the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background – the relic radiation from the Big Bang – was released today revealing the existence of features that challenge the foundations of our current understanding of the Universe.
Source:
[url]http://phys.org/news/2013-03-planck-reveals-universe.html[/url]
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Damn, can't wait to learn more about the universe!
I feel so helplessly dumb for only being able to see some... colored dots.
for some reason cmbr is the coolest lookin shit to me
science is real as fuck
Hell, any skilled Photoshop user could make an image like that and claim it's the most detailed image of the Cosmos..
Except the image wouldn't be based off of some cosmic background radiation and then simulated and processed into an image, which this one is supposed to be.
[QUOTE=gudman;39988831]I feel so helplessly dumb for only being able to see some... colored dots.[/QUOTE]
read the article??
The real question is wether or not cosmic microwaves can be used to heat cosmic burritos.
[QUOTE=Riller;39988952]The real question is wether or not cosmic microwaves can be used to heat cosmic burritos.[/QUOTE]
#realscience
but where is all the foreground radiation
[QUOTE=Riller;39988952]The real question is wether or not cosmic microwaves can be used to heat cosmic burritos.[/QUOTE]
What we learned today:
The universe was created when someone tried to use cosmic microwaves to heat a cosmic can of beans.
[QUOTE=Ghostwork;39988918]read the article??[/QUOTE]
I was over exaggerating, obviously. I've read quite a bit about CMBR images, how they're interpreted, I've read the article, but I still wish I could see (and understand) all the most remarkable and complex stuff that only specialists can see.
We're so goddamn insignificant its not even funny...
And people will still say the big bang is a lie.
Can someone draw a big arrow pointing to wherever we are?
We aren't in the picture, it's taken from the point of view of a satellite.
[QUOTE=Impulse101;39988999]We're so goddamn insignificant its not even funny...[/QUOTE]
It's not the size that matters.
That image is like looking at a big colour blindness test.
Which i am colour blind, Must be strange seeing it how i do.
[QUOTE=Villar-Perosa;39988807]Damn, can't wait to learn more about the universe![/QUOTE]
Yeah but they cancelled it after only 2 seasons... I don't think we'll ever know.
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I'm rather suprised, I knew Planck was big in particle physics, however I never imagined he reverse engineered the roadmap of temperature/matter-distribution from the big bang to the present day.
This is fantastic.
[QUOTE=gudman;39988831]I feel so helplessly dumb for only being able to see some... colored dots.[/QUOTE]
You have to relax your eyes and focus as though you were looking at something [i]behind[/i] the picture. Then you'll see the dolphin.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;39989992]You have to relax your eyes and focus as though you were looking at something [i]behind[/i] the picture. Then you'll see the dolphin.[/QUOTE]
A 4th dimensional dolphin.
The shape in the middle is africa
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;39988978]What we learned today:
The universe was created when someone tried to use cosmic microwaves to heat a cosmic can of beans.[/QUOTE]
Nahh man it was a cosmic jiffy pop.
[QUOTE=Maloof?;39988972]but where is all the foreground radiation[/QUOTE]
We can only see the background radiation because if we turned the telescope around to see the foreground radiation it'd only see the person looking through it dummy
[QUOTE=Zeke129;39990801]We can only see the background radiation because if we turned the telescope around to see the foreground radiation it'd only see the person looking through it dummy[/QUOTE]
Right now I am in space orbiting around Earth looking through a telescope.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;39989638]Yeah but they cancelled it after only 2 seasons... I don't think we'll ever know.
[IMG]http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/512/rushcrying.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
But Stargate Universe was horse shit compared to SG1 and Atlantis. It tried to be a cross between Stargate and Battlestar and failed at both. It was basically "Battlestargate Galactica: Teen sex edition"
[QUOTE=TonyP;39989066]And people will still say the big bang is a lie.[/QUOTE]
You're hilarious! Especially considering the Big Bang is a theory from a Christian priest.
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;39989826]I'm rather suprised, I knew Planck was big in particle physics, however I never imagined he reverse engineered the roadmap of temperature/matter-distribution from the big bang to the present day.
This is fantastic.[/QUOTE]
You realize it is named in honor of Plank, Plank didn't actually make it?
[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;39989098]Can someone draw a big arrow pointing to wherever we are?[/QUOTE]
I assume the centre. It's a panorama from the point of view of a satellite. No matter how far from earth the satellite is it can't have gone even one pixel across such a vastness.
Those look a hell of a lot like cosmic continents. The middle group looks somewhat like the African continent actually.
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