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ITT: gifs that make you feel insignifigant
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Appreciate at your own pace
>> Anonymous
This is just depressing
>> Anonymous
>>1310259

How?

I think its fucking awesome

I wonder if they have /b/ 13 billion lightyears away
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>>1310262
a funny thing to think about.. we can only see as far into space as light has had time to travel.. so 13billion light years away is 13 billion years ago, the earliest visible point.. but since space expands in all directions.. there is a side opposite that spot we are looking at from 13 billion light years away.. (ie. a spot 26 billion light years away in that direction) a spot which we will never see..

No matter how advanced we get, we will never see beyond that horizon, simply because thats how light works. now THAT makes you feel insignificant.
>> Anonymous
>what always fucks over my brain about this stuff is, i wonder what everything looks like on other planets with life? it must look amazing! evolution in relation to other planets with life is such a cool thought... there has to be another 4chan out there, what i want to know is who is more fucked up, them or us?
>> Anonymous
>>1310275
Not quite accurate. Remember that Space and Time are correlated... there is no "space" on the "other side" of the 13-billion-year-point. There's no time there, and therefore the concept of space (vacuum, or whatever) is null.

Just like it's pointless to try and think of the universe "before" the Big Bang (which is really what exists on the other side of that 13-billion-year-old-barrier)... there WAS no "before". No space, no time.

Physics is wonderfully bizarre sometimes.
>> Anonymous
you are assuming the big bang theory is correct. it might not be...
>> Anonymous
>>1310326

I think you're a little off, of course the space does exist, we simply cannot receive the electromagnetic radiation from beyond the barrier, what that poster was saying is based on our observation point, we see much less of the universe than we are capable of seeing. Its like saying black holes exist because they warp space time so greatly they reflect no radiation, a lack of light doesn't mean a lack of existance.
Not only that, we need to remember the universe isn't structured perfectly as we see it, the time it takes light to reach us means the picture we see is completely warped. No one will ever see the universe in its whole because it is too large to see in the same time.
>> Anonymous
>>1310331
Physicists can (and have) explain everything that's happened since 0.001 seconds after the Big Bang. And have experimental evidence to prove it, no less (I worked on a satellite designed to measure Cosmic Microwave Background... fun times). It's not a theory... it's what happened. WHY it happened... well, that's still unknown.

>>1310334
I'm afraid you're failing to grasp the concept... it's not that light is required in order to have space (that's... well, technically it's true, but more of a side-effect than a result). It's that the concept of time, space, and light are all interconnected.
Remember that light propagates at the speed of light (duh)... 3x10^8m/s, right? Right. At the edge of the universe, where the big bang is still occurring (in all of the directions it can whiz, to quote Monty P), on the "other side" of that border, the propagation hasn't reached yet. Why is this important?
Because the light doesn't just mark the edge of the *visible* universe. It marks the edge of the *universe*. Beyond the Big Bang, there is no space... not "vacuum", but literally there doesn't exist 3 dimensions (well, 4, because there's no time either). There is "nothing" in the most absolute sense of the word... if you could magically transport yourself *past* the edge of the Big Bang propagation, you would cease to exist because there's no space for you to exist in (and, correspondingly, no time for you to exist there).
>> Anonymous
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
>> Anonymous
*insert half-baked "research" found on wikipedia here*