Millennium Simulation: "The Largest Model of Our Universe"
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[b]The Universe in perspective:[/b]
The region of space simulated was a cube with about 2.4 billion light years as its length (less than 1.5% of the OBSERVABLE universe)! This volume was populated by about 20 million "galaxies". A super computer, located in Garching, Germany, executed the simulation code for more than a month. The output of the simulation needed about 25 Terabytes for storage.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFlzyxSQhTc[/media]
1 Mpc = 3,261,636.26 light years
e.g. The Andromeda Galaxy (our nearest neighbor galaxy) is 0.77 Mpc away from the Earth.
[img]http://i39.tinypic.com/91jukh.jpg[/img]
Each dot is a galaxy like our own Milky Way galaxy:
[img]http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/cluster_a_A_063.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/gal_dm_z0.0_a_A.jpg[/img]
Original image:
[url]http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/seqB_063.jpg[/url]
[b]The Milky Way galaxy in perspective:[/b]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G525hHhbWPM[/media]
The interactive image shown in the video:
[url]www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/zooms/ssc2008-11a/index.html[/url]
[img]http://i41.tinypic.com/2eobq81.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i39.tinypic.com/xeptva.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i40.tinypic.com/xmj47c.jpg[/img]
[b]Solar System and other stars WITHIN the Milky Way galaxy in perspective:[/b]
[img]http://i41.tinypic.com/k473ia.jpg[/img]
[url]http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1023/111aby.jpg[/url]
[b]The Fomalhaut system (the typical star system in our Milky Way galaxy) compared to the Solar system:[/b]
[img]http://techbays.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/11-16-2008-1-10-57-pm-comparison-of-solar-systems.png[/img]
[b]418[/b] exoplanets discovered thus far WITHIN the Milky Way galaxy
[url]http://www.planetary.org/exoplanets/list.php?pp=0[/url]
[img]http://www.centauri-dreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Kepler_planet_distribution.jpg[/img]
[b]Sounds of space (scary):[/b]
planets
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZYFaEZV-aQ[/media]
[b]Life on Earth and in the universe in perspective:[/b]
-Life has been on this planet for* 3.7 billion years and humans have been on this planet for only 200,000 years, which means we make up only 0.0054% of life's history on earth.
-Earth's total mass is ~5.9736×10^24 KG while the total biomass on Earth is ~7×10^13 KG, which means the percentage of life on earth is 0.00000000117% (majority of Earth's biomass resides undersea sustained by the heat of Earth's core and not the Sun's radiation).
-The solar system's* total mass is ~1.98892×10^30 KG while earth's mass is ~5.9742×10^24 KG, which means the earth makes up 0.0003% of the solar system.
-The known universe is composed of less than 2% baryonic matter (matter consisting of protons, neutrons, and electrons... the stuff we naturally assume to be "stuff"), which makes dark matter the most common form of matter in our universe and shows that our universe is far more suited for the creation of black holes.
-Our Sun is a third generation star, meaning the previous stars could of collapsed the wrong way and never of made the Sun and our solar system, therefore we never existing. And this isn't uncommon, by our standards the majority of star systems are failed star systems.
-Most (95%) of the "normal" baryonic matter in the universe is in the form of multi-million-degree "hot cluster gas" that forms an intergalactic medium in clusters of galaxies. So in the Universe as a whole, there is 20 times as much hot intergalactic plasma as there are stars. Stars are an accident.
[img]http://tsun.sscc.ru/hiwg/PIC/DATA/impacts_map_V4-V1_s.jpg[/img]
"Map of confirmed (red), perspective for verification (magenta) and proposed for further study (blue) impact structures on the Earth. [b]Size of circles is proportional to the crater diameter.[/b] Altogether almost 800 structures are shown."
[url]http://tsun.sscc.ru/hiwg/data.htm[/url]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6m3pUXKjQ[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEl64tkHCzg[/media]
[url]http://www.worldometers.info/[/url]
[b]Your life in perspective:[/b]
In a 70 year lifetime (70 orbits around a ball of hydrogen) the average human heart beats 2,520,000,000 times. 70 years = 37,000,000 minutes = 614,000 hours (to live).
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxqj1BcBpIg[/media]
Yeah, basically the universe is awesome, but it doesn't care if you exist.
there HAS to be another life form out there somewhere
I bet NASA has thousands of tb hard drives just sitting there.
"One parsec is defined to be the distance from Earth to a star."
Lol, no it isn't.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;14146567]"One parsec is defined to be the distance from Earth to a star."
Lol, no it isn't.[/QUOTE]
And I love how it leaves the star ambiguous and variable
This should be shown to all the people who think we are the center on the universe, or believe were the only sentient race.
[QUOTE=-AJ-;14146602]This should be shown to all the people who think we are the center on the universe, or believe were the only sentient race.[/QUOTE]
yes... there were people who thought we were the center of our galaxy, now show them this compared to that. hehe, watch us be on the edge of the galaxy.
[QUOTE=MindMuncher;14146631]yes... there were people who thought we were the center of our galaxy, now show them this compared to that. hehe, watch us be on the edge of the galaxy.[/QUOTE]
We are.
[img]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a168/ichingcarpenter/you_are_here_galaxy.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=-AJ-;14146602]This should be shown to all the people who think we are the center on the universe...[/QUOTE]
Let me just jump into my time machine and visit Ptolemy.
[QUOTE=Athena;14146586]And I love how it leaves the star ambiguous and variable[/QUOTE]
Well, since they make stuff up, you should too! [img]http://sa.tweek.us/emots/images/emot-c00lbert.gif[/img]
Why's everything gotta be so huge
That weblike structure is, I believe, known as the universal web, or universal net. It's a gargantuan chain of celestial bodies that fill our Universe.
There are what are known as "voids". Voids are the empty spaces between the strings of the web, and man, are these things EMPTY. They aren't empty in the sense that there's a couple stray asteroids or ice bits floating by. They are 100% devoid of any form of matter, and don't even have any form of radiation passing through them. It is believed that these voids contain dark matter, that mysteriously elusive particle that quantum physicists fap over.
[QUOTE=Dx2;14146763]Why's everything gotta be so huge[/QUOTE]
I was born like this
leave me alone
My god, it's full of stars...
[QUOTE=Upgrade123;14146777]That weblike structure is, I believe, known as the universal web, or universal net. It's a gargantuan chain of celestial bodies that fill our Universe.
There are what are known as "voids". Voids are the empty spaces between the strings of the web, and man, are these things EMPTY. They aren't empty in the sense that there's a couple stray asteroids or ice bits floating by. They are 100% devoid of any form of matter, and don't even have any form of radiation passing through them. It is believed that these voids contain dark matter, that mysteriously elusive particle that quantum physicists fap over.[/QUOTE]
Amen! Imagine instantly popping into one of those voids. :(
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;14146658]We are.
*nice big picture that shows us we're 'there'*[/QUOTE]
oh exciting! now why doesn't that look like the big web? oh, because it isn't. nice to know, but not what I was talking about.
I mean, how funny would it be if we were on the edge of that humangorlious web/net.
the first I said galaxy, I meant solar system, the second time, I meant universe... yeah, galaxy wasn't meant to be there at all.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;14146811]My god, it's full of stars...[/QUOTE]
That quote took me awhile to remember the source. Great movie.
[QUOTE=MindMuncher;14146864]oh exciting! now why doesn't that look like the big web? oh, because it isn't. nice to know, but not what I was talking about.
I mean, how funny would it be if we were on the edge of that humangorlious web/net.[/QUOTE]
Just as the Universe is *hypothetically* endless/expanding extremely fast every moment, so is this web. We may be at the edge being pushed further out, we may be somewhere else. We most likely will never know within our lifetimes.
[QUOTE=christarpv2;14146543]there HAS to be another life form out there somewhere[/QUOTE]
Yeah, whenever someone tries to argue that Earth is the only planet that supports/has life on it, I pull out this picture
[img]http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/milkyway.jpg[/img]
By the way, that's just the milky way, there are billions/trillions of clusters like that.
It looks much like a ton of neurons networked inside a brain.
waste of money
Also, we are the only ones. There is no such thing as aliens; there are only animals and humans.
The "web" is made up of dark matter, search for "dark matter filaments" and you should find some good articles about them.
I got this huge, awesome space book (2.5 feet high, 2 wide) that has gigantic pictures of supernovas and galaxies and shit. I just wanna get high and stare at the cool pictures.
[QUOTE=livelonger12;14146957]Also, we are the only ones. There is no such thing as aliens; there are only animals and humans.[/QUOTE]
yes, we are the only groups of atoms with a brain in the whole universe.
[QUOTE=Augmatic Disport;14146974]I got this huge, awesome space book (2.5 feet high, 2 wide) that has gigantic pictures of supernovas and galaxies and shit. I just wanna get high and stare at the cool pictures.[/QUOTE]
I fap to these images. I love a big supernova, they're just so hot.
[QUOTE=Augmatic Disport;14146974]I got this huge, awesome space book (2.5 feet high, 2 wide) that has gigantic pictures of supernovas and galaxies and shit. I just wanna get high and stare at the cool pictures.[/QUOTE]
2.5 feet high?
gimme it
[QUOTE=VaultBoi;14146981]yes, we are the only groups of atoms with a brain in the whole universe.[/QUOTE]
Yes, we are. Aliens don't exist.
I hope that in our lifetimes we can at least see some of the cosmos explored
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