The coolest "scale of the universe" presentation ever

George

  On 2/24/2010 at 5:44 AM, chenGOD said:

yottametre, yoctometre

 

lol theSun has AIDS

BUT I CLEANED THE CDS

very nice!

That was pretty cool - although a bit of a shame they get the last statement wrong after spending all that time on it.

Seems like you would've said what it is if you were that concerned with the accuracy instead of just tearing it apart.

I didn't tear it apart, i just commented on the last statement being wrong, which it is.

From http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/site/faq.html

General relativity does require that no object can move through space faster than the speed of light

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The key idea behind inflationary theory is the notion that the universe underwent a period of accelerated expansion during the first 10^{-34} seconds (0.0000000000000000000000000000000006 seconds). During this inflationary period, the universe doubled in size at least 90 times.

See also:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html

In fact, reading anything on cosmology 101 will also tell you why it's wrong.

at this point, there is absolutely no conceivable way of traveling faster than the speed of light, let alone approaching it.

i'm excited for the next 50 years of science though, because hey, you never know what they'll find out by then. all this dark matter shit is quite a mystery, as well as the ultimate fate of the universe. as our science suggests, it will eventually rip all atoms apart while continuing its seemingly unceasing acceleration, but again, as humans we can only see so much of the picture from our little plot of rock here in the milky way. we're unimaginably far from conclusively knowing the nature of the universe.

  On 2/24/2010 at 4:53 PM, Ian said:

I didn't tear it apart, i just commented on the last statement being wrong, which it is.

 

From http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/site/faq.html

 

General relativity does require that no object can move through space faster than the speed of light

 

........

 

The key idea behind inflationary theory is the notion that the universe underwent a period of accelerated expansion during the first 10^{-34} seconds (0.0000000000000000000000000000000006 seconds). During this inflationary period, the universe doubled in size at least 90 times.

 

 

See also:

 

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html

What did you correct here?

Jesus fucking Christ, this is amazing! I'm saving it to my computer.

Dragon, what did you use to make your avatar/sig?

  On 2/24/2010 at 5:20 PM, mafted said:

What did you correct here?

The light cone of 14 billion light years.

Which aren't the right terms... hang on let me look and see...

"If something were more than 14 billion years away it would take more than 14 billion years to reach us"

Light from the early universe is 78 billion light years away and yet has only taken 14 billion years to reach us.

  On 2/24/2010 at 10:04 PM, Ian said:

"If something were more than 14 billion years away it would take more than 14 billion years to reach us"

 

Light from the early universe is 78 billion light years away and yet has only taken 14 billion years to reach us.

where did you get those numbers?

  On 2/24/2010 at 9:04 PM, phling said:

Dragon, what did you use to make your avatar/sig?

Flash. I used a Hex Editor to glitch up some images, then I exported them in varying qualities of .JPG and played them all at once to get that grainy video effect. I did something quite interesting to my avatar. If you were to take it, colour-invert it, then rotate it 180 degrees, you get the same image...