• What is the Universe Expanding Into?
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV33t8U6w28&feature=related[/media] I'm fried.
The universe sure is a beautiful thing, and if there is anything humans agree on, it's that.
Humanity cant agree on any thing, period.
[QUOTE=Irespawnoften;32790065]Humanity cant agree on any thing, period.[/QUOTE] we all agree that we live on earth
I just can't imagine the edge of the universe. What happens when you break it? Fuck.
I have to play Spore now
Science! I used to look up these type of videos all the time.
Well that wasn't as informative as I was hoping... Personally, I side with the notion of the Multiverse. It just makes too much sense to me that there are horizons beyond this one, since there have ALWAYS been horizons beyond, and the idea of clouds of Universes all with varying physical laws makes the life-allowing principles of this Universe more rationally sound.
[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;32790112]I just can't imagine the edge of the universe. What happens when you break it? Fuck.[/QUOTE] hurts my head thinking about it
Azathoth. That's what.
[QUOTE=J-Dude;32790349]Well that wasn't as informative as I was hoping... Personally, I side with the notion of the Multiverse. It just makes too much sense to me that there are horizons beyond this one, since there have ALWAYS been horizons beyond, and the idea of clouds of Universes all with varying physical laws makes the life-allowing principles of this Universe more rationally sound.[/QUOTE] I personally like the idea of a multiverse with different physical laws in every (uni?)verse. Although it'd make it impossible for anything we created to go to that place, unless the physics there are really close to ours. For example, what would happen if you sent an object from our universe into a universe where atoms are square-shaped instead of round?
[QUOTE=DrLuke2;32792569]I personally like the idea of a multiverse with different physical laws in every (uni?)verse. Although it'd make it impossible for anything we created to go to that place, unless the physics there are really close to ours. For example, what would happen if you sent an object from our universe into a universe where atoms are square-shaped instead of round?[/QUOTE] Wouldn't the atoms just decay if they don't fit the right proportions?
I shed an actual tear at the thought of exploring an still to be discovered sized space. Like many i can not wait till humans send colonies into space.
[QUOTE=sami-elite;32795097]I shed an actual tear at the thought of exploring an still to be discovered sized space. Like many i can not wait till humans send colonies into space.[/QUOTE] i'm not sure we'll be alive to witness such a milestone.
Hence the tear.
[QUOTE=SonicHitman;32795541]i'm not sure we'll be alive to witness such a milestone.[/QUOTE] If it ever happens, because of conservatives who are more interested in repealing such ideas.
[QUOTE=Dogchow33;32796096]If it ever happens, because of liberals who are more interested in repealing such ideas.[/QUOTE] er, conservatives are the ones repelling NASA, Education, and other sciences
[QUOTE=Dogchow33;32796096]If it ever happens, because of liberals who are more interested in repealing such ideas.[/QUOTE] Good thing there's also countries outside the US.
[QUOTE=sami-elite;32796784]Good thing there's also countries outside the US.[/QUOTE] Brings about the question, who has the most dedicated space program anyway? [editline]15th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=DesolateGrun;32796730]er, conservatives are the ones repelling NASA, Education, and other sciences[/QUOTE] My bad. Fixed.
[QUOTE=Dogchow33;32799029]Brings about the question, who has the most dedicated space program anyway? [editline]15th October 2011[/editline] My bad. Fixed.[/QUOTE] I'm guessing the commercial companies are putting much more effort into space programs now sure NASA was one of the groups that made it happen/more, but they aren't really in shape to do anything like what commercial companies are doing anymore
Makes me a little sad that I probably wont live billions of years to see it change.
Didn't undestood any of this nerd shit. Can't believe humans are this smart already.
[QUOTE=Recco;32800410]Didn't undestood any of this nerd shit. Can't believe humans are this smart already.[/QUOTE] I guess you didn't understood english either.
Even if space is finite, there doesn't need to be expanding into anything since spacetime is an intrinsic manifold, i.e. the expansion of space is not defined by its growing outward into something, but by distances between nearby points of space increasing.
My mind.
So what I got from this is that because of Einstein's theory we could reach the end of the universe but because his theory allows for something to curve, the universe could curve into itself and we would restart to where we started?
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;32801810]Even if space is finite, there doesn't need to be expanding into anything since spacetime is an intrinsic manifold, i.e. the expansion of space is not defined by its growing outward into something, but by distances between nearby points of space increasing.[/QUOTE] Never thought of that. What would happen if these points collided?
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