Scale of the Universe

[Narrat0r]

Well, have you ever thought how big the universe is? Or what's the smallest thing in it? Basically, this flash presentation speaks for itself: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347
Zoom from Quantum Foam to the Edge of the Universe...
This is basically a discussion of the size of universe. It'll be impossible to reach the edge of it because it's constantly expanding, and how many Lightyears it is away, it will take us that much years to get there.

P.S. Pillars of Creation are creepy. Google it. XD

 

[Fussiler1]

What if you get such a speed you catch up with the speed of the universe expanding?

Shame it's gonna explode though.
But hey, I'm dead then.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Explode? There are more theories about it ending, also one about it collapsing/imploding.

I think the fact that the light from very far away takes so long to reach us says enough about it's size.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

The title of this thread dearly reminds me of a well known scientist called Carl Sagan.

Srsly.

Cute flash, luckily Pyritie can't do it any better.

 

[AntoMarc]

It'll be impossible to reach the edge of it because it's constantly expanding, and how many Lightyears it is away, it will take us that much years to get there.

Well If we take this from a science-fiction perspective, have you ever heard about warp motors (from Star Wars and other Sci-fi movies/serials)? There was a documentary about them on Discovery Science. Those motors can "cut off" the space and time between 2 things and you don't move to that thing, the thing comes to you and you need several minutes to travel lightyears distances. The guy who maked the documentary said that the combustible for those motors is called negative energy (or something) and to buy only a few milligrams you need billions of $.

 

[Narrat0r]

Well If we take this from a science-fiction perspective, have you ever heard about warp motors (from Star Wars and other Sci-fi movies/serials)? There was a documentary about them on Discovery Science. Those motors can "cut off" the space and time between 2 things and you don't move to that thing, the thing comes to you and you need several minutes to travel lightyears distances. The guy who maked the documentary said that the combustible for those motors is called negative energy (or something) and to buy only a few milligrams you need billions of $.

Cool.

 

[Mechanical Man]

This is what is beyond the border of universe according to poles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8Ynsec57o :Đ

 

[chilla_killa]

Why didn't you post at my Astronomy thread?
I read the Universe expands and becomes faster and faster expanding.
So I don't think it will explode.
Maybe the expanding will stop some time and then there will the total difference,
so it becomes smaller and smaller and one day it will be at the starting position again and then the whole process will start again from beginning.
Again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.

Maybe we are the millionst universe, we don't know.
Time is so small in the universe.
A million years is nothing. It's like a second on earth, maybe even less.