I don't know about "the most strange" experiment ever. I recently read about an Israeli research group that got some very curious readings from an interferometer experiment. The article can be found here if you're interested.
Holger Bech Nielsen doesn't believe in string theory himself for what it's worth.
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking (while it isn't orientated on it) explains some of the basics in a good way too.
Wait...what? Do you mean that if you travel at 99.99% the speed of light, that ray of light would still be getting away from you at the speed of light? How does that work?
You're not really looking into the past in the conventional/sci-fi way, basically the light takes X amount of years to travel to the Earth so that means the light we are seeing is from as long as it took X to arrive ago. So if the light takes 5 years to reach Earth, what we are seeing is what the star/planet looked like 5 years ago.
Yeah I know that. So that means that if we somehow got, say 1000 light years away, and looked at the earth, we'd see the earth as it was 1000 years ago?
Time dilation. Your perception of the passage of time would speed up (relative to an observer on earth, say) to the extent that the light beam is once again travelling at light speed relative to you.
Yep.
I've never heard of that before. Maybe "Men in Black" was right?
To be fair, this is a new discovery but the majority of scientist were thinking something similar for a long time. The idea that the Bog Bang was created after 2 universes hit each other or one universe divided on two isn't exactly new.
Big enough. I don't think that anyone can know it exactly because the expansion of the universe is happening with a faster speed that the speed of light so it is impossible to know how big it is. But likely larger than 13.8b light years.
It was difficult/annoying enough grasping the concept of what was or wasn't there before the big bang when it was 'nothing'. So where did all these universes come from? I hate this shit and actually feel a bit sick thinking about it. F U space.
Likely there won't ba any significant developlent in our lifetime (or ever) about that. I don't think that at the moment anyone has the smallest idea about that. We can't even look at the first moments of Big Bang (and it is widely thought that we won't ever do) let alone look before it happened. There might be developed some theories (mainly based even more in speculation that the string therory) or so, but I wouldn't get my hopes high that in this century there will be anything more than that.
I know, it was more of a rhetorical question because I know we'll most likely never find out. That's what is so frustrating. I don't actually hate this stuff, it's so interesting but so annoying at the same.
That would just be the radius as well, so actually likely larger than ~27b light years in diameter.
Yep. I meant that but I hasn't wrote it well. The expansion is believed that for the last 8b years has started become more faster than it should and for feck knows how many years even faster than the speed of light so I think that we can only imagine how big the universe is. We won't ever be able to see the other part of the universe (cause expansion has surprassed the speed of light) so unless we find an equation about the increase of speed of the expansion of universe, we won't be able ever to know how large it is.
Yeah, I'm really interested in all this sort of stuff but it makes me feel all small and existential and shit.
I'm not making this up or trying to be funny here. I discovered this thread a month ago....It's been a full month of reflection and thoughts about dying. I'm a catholic and I've always believed in God and always assumed there is another place for us to go. My reasoning being that, you can explain all our physical attributes by science but, how can you explain your emotions, your conscience, your thoughts...That to me doesn't have an explanation.
errrmm pretty sure that can be explained with science to a point too. I've never understood why people who believe in a God can't believe that a God created science etc. Meh. Not the place for it here.
Oh probably can be...But not to me. That's just my beliefs anyways. I tend not to get into "them" sort of conversations.
I don't think you should be scared of what happens after your death. You're not really around to experience it. The process of dying can be scary though. I'd rather die instantly in some way than drown for example.I'm not making this up or trying to be funny here. I discovered this thread a month ago....It's been a full month of reflection and thoughts about dying. I'm a catholic and I've always believed in God and always assumed there is another place for us to go. My reasoning being that, you can explain all our physical attributes by science but, how can you explain your emotions, your conscience, your thoughts...That to me doesn't have an explanation.
But when I think about the stuff in this thread, I am now terrified of dying and scared of what happens after. And the thoughts of the universe and what I've seen in this thread has blown my mind.....I've only just turned 25 you bastards!
I'm more scientist than believer and the idea of nothingness can be frightening but I'll offer you a few random thoughts on the subject.I'm not making this up or trying to be funny here. I discovered this thread a month ago....It's been a full month of reflection and thoughts about dying. I'm a catholic and I've always believed in God and always assumed there is another place for us to go. My reasoning being that, you can explain all our physical attributes by science but, how can you explain your emotions, your conscience, your thoughts...That to me doesn't have an explanation.
But when I think about the stuff in this thread, I am now terrified of dying and scared of what happens after. And the thoughts of the universe and what I've seen in this thread has blown my mind.....I've only just turned 25 you bastards!
I find nothing easy because nothing is nothing, it's the absence of something. A good analogy is death, when you die there's nothing, just like there was nothing before you were born. Infinity I find difficult though because humans always want to quantify something, ideally in a linear fashion.
What I mean is actual "nothing". The Universe is mostly a vacuum that "nothing" exists in however the space can be filled with any sort of matter. A gas could fill that vacum and a planet or asteriod can move into that space. That's the "nothing" we know. What we seem to have trouble for the same reason you state above "being able to quantify" is actual nothing. Somewhere beyond the Universe where it's not just a vacuum but a place/time/whatever where nothing exists, that can't just be filled with any sort of matter.
But as you say, nothing exists there, so really that nothingness...doesn't really exist either. It's not really a property of itself. I don't really think of it as something the universe is growing into, just that the universe is growing, full stop. It's not growing into anything, and nothing's there to stop it growing.
Trix are for kids
That silence we hear is the sucking quantum void of millennials who don't get that reference.
It looks insanely good, my god. Finally, the new age of Sagat is upon us - where is your false idol now Gambit?!
I've been waiting ages for this!
He did it all already 3 years ago, and his version didn't include any red balls flying into his face. Me thinks Seth Mcfarlanes influence was in that bit. To say it borrows from the wonders series is a but of an understatement.
