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These time lapse videos from the International Space Station are truly awe inspiring.
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that's allot of light pollution!
I almost had to turn the musak off. Otherwise, it reminds me of how small and insignificant we are out here.
Another great way to feel small and insignificant is to look at the hubble ultra deep field. Mindblowing stuff that actually exists !
It's the aether!This is all filmed on a stage in Hollywood. Space doesn't exist.
I believe that finding out "where the Universe ends and what is beyond" AND "the meaning of life" are related. You find the answer to one, you'll then realize the answer to the other.So if the universe is infinitely large, how large is the space in which our universe is contained? If nothing exists outside of it, how could it have ever grown?
The space itself is expanding. In regards to the size of the universe, there are some mindblowing things when you think of infinity. For example, between the integers 0 and 1 is an infinite amount of numbers, but between 0 and 2, there are even more infinite numbers. I don't know too much about the subject myself, so if anyone can explain this, by all means do so.
You can divide a number up into infinite part; however, there is a finite distance between the numbers 0 and 1. There is no such thing as a greater amount of infinite numbers, and therein lies my point --- if the universe is infinite it cannot be contained within anything. If it cannot be contained within anything then it could have never expanded into anything.
Pretty sure he was joking about the numbers thing.There is no such thing as a greater amount of infinite numbers
I was thinking that same thought which led me along to thinking that there's a lot of energy being burned to light up the place that way and that there's not many patches of hospitable land left around where someone can go to get away from the rest of the masses. It's a nice video, but spawns sorta depressing thoughts.
How correct you are...it's difficult to even comprehend the vastness of the universe.
My 7 year old asked me last week if the universe had an end...hard to tell him that we think it's 93 billion light years in diameter but still growing
Another great way to feel small and insignificant is to look at the hubble ultra deep field. Mindblowing stuff that actually exists !
The videos are neat, but at some point it just looks like that's all NASA produces that is interesting and tangible.
You can divide a number up into infinite part; however, there is a finite distance between the numbers 0 and 1. There is no such thing as a greater amount of infinite numbers, and therein lies my point --- if the universe is infinite it cannot be contained within anything. If it cannot be contained within anything then it could have never expanded into anything.
...consider that some infinities are larger than others. For example, there are more fractions than there are counting numbers, yet they are both infinite.
Why? My point was that many people probably don't know about the other things NASA does because what tends to be newsworthy are these types of videos. The criticism was nothing against the program but more to do with how they are represented by the media.Foolish comment, imho...
P.S. Do not trust everything a person says simply because they have studied astrophysics. Einstein wasn't much of a philosopher, at times, and he was a pretty great physicist.