Pictures taken from space. The thing we are surrounded by at all times, and our final frontier. We already know about micro physics and how every tiny thing on our planet works, now we have to apply it on a larger scale to the universe. There is so much there to learn about, and discover, and the only thing we can do from here on Earth, is look at it.
Our Sun...
(http://z.about.com/d/space/1/0/Y/Q/sun_tour.jpg)
Billions of those make up a galaxy...
(http://www.galaxyphoto.com/high_res/hst_galaxy.JPG)
And billions of those make up our universe...
(http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/screen/opo9601a1.jpg)
And who's to say there aren't billions of universes in something larger?
Discuss what you think of the universe.
what would a universe be part of psyduck;
Quote from: Unwelc0med on November 20, 2007, 03:32:19 PM
what would a universe be part of psyduck;
The multiverse.
I think we'll all die before we know. magician;
Quote from: MetheE on December 05, 2007, 02:54:39 AM
I think we'll all die before we know. magician;
That's reasonable.
Alternate universes would be cool.
I would love to know if the universe ends. I mean, I'm pretty sure scientists say it doesn't, but there's got to be some sort of edge out there...
Yeah, but if you think about it, theres no way if it could end.
Like, is there a huge fucking wall that you can't get through? Then what would be behind the wall. The only reasonable thing I can think of is that once you reach the end, you get looped back around to where you started somehow.
Quote from: Strongbad007 on December 05, 2007, 05:42:58 PM
Yeah, but if you think about it, theres no way if it could end.
Like, is there a huge fucking wall that you can't get through? Then what would be behind the wall. The only reasonable thing I can think of is that once you reach the end, you get looped back around to where you started somehow.
Or the universe is just an expanding sphere. You reach the "end" and start to go up against the border, but it still appears as if you're going straight.
Quote from: Lawlz on December 05, 2007, 05:53:46 PM
Or the universe is just an expanding sphere. You reach the "end" and start to go up against the border, but it still appears as if you're going straight.
If it's expanding, there has to be something on the outside for it to expand into.
I wonder what it's expanding into. Maybe we're just a growing piece of mold on someone's bread. :O
But seriously, what is outside of the universe? Questions like these really make you want to just sit down and think.
Quote from: Selkie on December 06, 2007, 01:32:47 PM
If it's expanding, there has to be something on the outside for it to expand into.
so what happens to said something? does the universe just am be a little hungry hungry hippo and gobble it up or what
what's your definition of expansion of the universe
oh and for that matter, how about the same for the universe
Quote from: PHANTOM PHANTRON on December 06, 2007, 01:45:17 PM
But seriously, what is outside of the universe?
are you certain there's such a thing as outside the universe
I think the most important thing a man can ever know would be how the mind of a woman works, but it doesn't matter, cause we will never understand
We have plenty of work to do on the 'tiny things' before scientists can hope to learn more about the universe.
Quote from: Godot on December 06, 2007, 01:45:17 PM
I wonder what it's expanding into. Maybe we're just a growing piece of mold on someone's bread. :O
But seriously, what is outside of the universe? Questions like these really make you want to just sit down and think.
If this were true, our "space" would be LIQUID.
Universe is an interesting conception :D
But I've always wondered what it looked like before the universe began. Or perhaps the universe was always there. No origin? >_> So anyway, it's like a complex thing which human minds are limited too but our knowledge is growing and it may take millions or billions of years to understand a fraction of what the universe is like.
Quote from: unwelc0med on November 20, 2007, 03:32:19 PM
what would a universe be part of psyduck;
The Multiverse. The Multiverse is basically an absolutely gargantuan expanse where not even faster-than-light travel would get you somewhere. Now, the Multiverse houses... well... Everything. Chances are the Multiverse is the highest level of existance, becase why the fuck would we need more than one multiverse? Anyways, you could probably enter other universes from it. Somehow.
We'd have to be like, gods in order to leave OUR universe, let alone leave it, travel across the multiverse and enter a new one.
Quote from: Qualanx on December 21, 2007, 07:26:47 AM
The Multiverse. The Multiverse is basically an absolutely gargantuan expanse where not even faster-than-light travel would get you somewhere. Now, the Multiverse houses... well... Everything. Chances are the Multiverse is the highest level of existance, becase why the fuck would we need more than one multiverse? Anyways, you could probably enter other universes from it. Somehow.
We'd have to be like, gods in order to leave OUR universe, let alone leave it, travel across the multiverse and enter a new one.
I was always interested in ther concept that maybe the different levels were never-ending.
Like, there was a level on multiple multiverses, and then another level of multiple whatever those would be called, and so on, just for infinity.
it would sure take care of the concept of how can there be nothing after we leave whatever is the last reaches, because then it would mean that there ISN'T nothing, it expands for infinity.