Maybe we'll be able to see so far back that we can see earth itself...
What if there are other sentient lifeforms in that galaxy looking at us right now as we were billions of years ago and thinking "We're seeing one of the first galaxies ever formed here, folks"
:psyduck:
Like a time machine?
[QUOTE=iatealawnmower;18820506]Well technically anyone can look into the past, in the sense that light travels with a finite, constant speed – so that light you receive now was emitted some time ago – in the case of the stars, many years ago. You see the moon as it was about a second ago – not such a big deal, but it’s still equally true that you see it as it was in the past. Hubble can see further than most other telescopes, so can also see further into the universe’s past.[/QUOTE]
So that means anything behind you is in the future? I could make millions! Hahahaha! I will be rich! I will be able to see into the futu-
Wait... Wait a minute...
Noooo! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
[QUOTE=Figgis Fiddis;18823241]uh excuse me the universe was created 6,000 years ago haven't you read the bible[/QUOTE]
I read the Luther-version of the Bible and not a single part states namely that the universe was created 6k years ago.
The 6k years are an interpretation.
And that's what the Bible was meant for.
I don't want to spark arguments, I just want to point out that the hate and critique is better adressed to the interpreters than to the Bible itself.
[QUOTE=Daolpu;18820694]It boggles my mind how there could still be people thinking the earth and the universe is only 6000 years old with such simple yet fascinating evidence like this.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but some stubborn Christians (most likely trolls) believe that god could've placed that snapshot of light out in the far reaches of the galaxy to be witness by man as a test of faith. However, this is bullshit in my opinion. Score 1 science.
space blow my mind, but I love it
[QUOTE=TheChantzGuy;18884668][i][b]our[/i][/b] universe was created 6,000 years ago[/QUOTE]
What?
So you guys are saying we can look into the past with a fucking telescope?
[b]Shit, I'm late for school![/b]
Just kidding. Anyways, that's pretty mind-blowing that we can see what was and is probably gone now. Not only do we know more about the galaxies, but we know about how light and time works. Or doesn't work. What would happen if we look too far, for example farther than the Big Bang...what would we see hypothetically?
fucking amazing
This is why I love hubble. It gives us images like this:
[img_thumb]http://randomnista.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/hubble_image011.jpg[/img_thumb]
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Oh, and it advances our knowledge of the universe and whatnot.
One's disappointment in humanity can be fully realized when attempting to imagine the scope of the universe and beyond.
It would be awesome if it were possible to instantly travel billions of lightyears away then look back at earlier versions of the earth with a big telescope.
[QUOTE=Visage;18907542]It would be awesome if it were possible to instantly travel billions of lightyears away then look back at earlier versions of the earth with a big telescope.[/QUOTE]
Why does everyone think that when we have the technology to go faster than the speed of lights our telescopes will still be big?
[QUOTE=RELAXiN;18909677]Why does everyone think that when we have the technology to go faster than the speed of lights our telescopes will still be big?[/QUOTE]
Because the larger a telescope the better as it can 'capture' more light to use in building up an image.
It's not technology that's the problem, it's the laws of physics and the nature of the universe itself. The inverse square law, my friend.
[QUOTE=Tentacle;18879117]That's pretty incredible. I hope they're working on Gliese 86 D too, though, as that's the only extraterrestrial planet that NASA have found that has a chance of being inhabitable.[/QUOTE]
do you mean gilese 581d
:Dawkins102:
This cannot be..... but still really cool.
Fucking awesome.
P.S.:
Edwin Hubble taught at my high-school.
Wikipedia:
[quote]Upon returning to the United States, Hubble taught Spanish, physics, and mathematics at the New Albany High School in New Albany, Indiana. He also coached the boy's basketball team there. Hubble earned admission as a member of the Kentucky bar association, although he reportedly never actually practiced law in Kentucky. Hubble served in the U.S. Army in World War I, and he quickly advanced to the rank of major. He returned to astronomy at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in 1917. His dissertation was titled Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae.[/quote]
[QUOTE=teh pirate;18889946]What if there are other sentient lifeforms in that galaxy looking at us right now as we were billions of years ago and thinking "We're seeing one of the first galaxies ever formed here, folks"
:psyduck:[/QUOTE]
Some probably are.
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[QUOTE=RELAXiN;18909677]Why does everyone think that when we have the technology to go faster than the speed of lights our telescopes will still be big?[/QUOTE]
bigger = better
That doesn't make any sense. How is Hubble "magically" going "back in time"? It's seeing original stars, not time-travelling.
Also, I'd say something about religion, but considering this is Facepunch, we know how that would end, so I won't bother.
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;18932478]That doesn't make any sense. How is Hubble "magically" going "back in time"? It's seeing original stars, not time-travelling.
Also, I'd say something about religion, but considering this is Facepunch, we know how that would end, so I won't bother.[/QUOTE]
If you read the thread you would know that light takes time to travel far distances. Or any distance for that matter. The light the Hubble has seen took billions of years to reach it, so that light is billions of years old and as such the image is billions of years old.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;18932768]If you read the thread you would know that light takes time to travel far distances. Or any distance for that matter. The light the Hubble has seen took billions of years to reach it, so that light is billions of years old and as such the image is billions of years old.[/QUOTE]
Physics of the Universe: They're confusing.
I still don't believe this makes any bit of sense. Whatever BS they say they've accomplished, they haven't. They may have taken photos of an ancient star/galaxy, but they definately didn't go back in time.
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;18932777]Physics of the Universe: They're confusing.
I still don't believe this makes any bit of sense. Whatever BS they say they've accomplished, they haven't. They may have taken photos of an ancient star/galaxy, but they definately didn't go back in time.[/QUOTE]
No they did not actually travel back in time, however they essentially took a picture of the past.
This shit really makes you think.
people will never be able to move faster than light, and neither will anything solid. The only way you could move from one place to another faster than light itself is if you found some way around moving faster than light, like wormholes for example.
anyways those images are pretty amazing.
[QUOTE=SM0K3 B4N4N4;18932989]people will never be able to move faster than light, and neither will anything solid. The only way you could move from one place to another faster than light itself is if you found some way around moving faster than light, like wormholes for example.
anyways those images are pretty amazing.[/QUOTE]
Have they even confirmed the existence of a wormhole yet? I thought those were just theory, something to fill in a theoretical gap.
I always found space exploring interesting since I was a child.
Offtopic: Huge beautiful picture of the moon: [media]http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d3/FullMoon.jpg[/media]
On topic:
Things like this blow my mind. I think about the universe quite often.. Not quite at the "scientific" method, but still think about it a lot. Most of the time i'm all :psyduck:
I have a telescope and tried it out on the Moon. It was beautiful.
No luck on finding planets yet though, but I don't know if it can reach to show them properly.
Wait, hold on... this doesn't make any sense. Maybe I'm missing something.
The big bang supposedly (or at least in all the image concepts you see) has all the matter coming out from an epicenter of some sort.
We shouldn't be able to see stuff from that long ago because wouldn't it have taken it roughly 13.5 billion years for our galaxies' matter to get 13.5 billion years away from the matter of the other ancient that the hubble looked at?
So either the universe would have to be older than 14 billion years, or the big bang would have had to spawn matter all over the universe at the same time, because matter wouldn't have been able to get that far away from the ancient galaxies since matter can only travel at the speed of light (maximum) I mean, we should be able to see stuff in the past, but the specific number 13.5 billion years ago doesn't make sense.
I'm obviously missing something, but I'm not sure what.
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