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universe
do you know how big the universe?
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As the brilliant Monty Python guys sang:
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's ****** all down here on Earth.
Current scientific understanding, supported by exhaustive data, indicates, tubeway, that the universe did have a beginning and is not infinite. It's approximately 14.5 billions of years old, and is, as stated approximately 160 billion light years in diameter. It is continuing to expand and appears that it will continue to do so. Current thought supports a continued expansion that is, ironically, accelerating...
If energy cannot be created or destroyed - then it must have always existed - I find it difficult to believe that every thing just suddenly came to exist where there was nothing before. I can not see how there can be an end to the universe - as if you could get to the end then there must be something beyond it. There is no way of knowing what there was before the point in time 14.5 billion years ago - but how can there have been nothing.
I am not an unintellegent person, and do try to be well read - but just can not see how there was a time where one second before, time or matter did not exist.
Be that as it may, tubeway, the state of scientific theory presently supports exactly that which you find imponderable. You may have some solace in that we can only "look back" towards the Big Bang creation model singularity to within Planck Time... approximately 5.391 � 10−44 seconds... only assumptions exist concerning the state of the universe prior to this infintesimal slice of time. by the way, time, itself, did not exist prior to the creation event...
tubeway, Time is measured in units corresponding to the temporal relationship between two events in the reference frame of the observer. What is measured as a second in one reference frame could be measured as minutes, hours, days, years, millennia, eons, etc., in another. What makes this possible is motion.
In order for one to observe a significant variance in time measurement one has to observe the passage of time between two clocks, one of which is moving at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light relative to the other. A clock that has experienced accelerated motion over a period of time will, when compared to one that remained at rest relative to it, at the end of its journey show that the rate at which time passes is diminished by motion.
If it were possible to measure time within the �Big Bang� itself, time would be measured just as it is for you and me here and now. To understand this you must first understand that by theoretically accelerating to near light speed velocity you could actually travel the distance of many light years in a matter of seconds or less as referenced by your own clock. Those observing you from your pre-accelerated reference frame would however never observe your motion as greater than the speed of light. At the same time, your measurement of the speed of light would remain the same for you.
This is all that I have time for right now, as tax time is now an urgent reality for me in my frame of reference.
In order for one to observe a significant variance in time measurement one has to observe the passage of time between two clocks, one of which is moving at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light relative to the other. A clock that has experienced accelerated motion over a period of time will, when compared to one that remained at rest relative to it, at the end of its journey show that the rate at which time passes is diminished by motion.
If it were possible to measure time within the �Big Bang� itself, time would be measured just as it is for you and me here and now. To understand this you must first understand that by theoretically accelerating to near light speed velocity you could actually travel the distance of many light years in a matter of seconds or less as referenced by your own clock. Those observing you from your pre-accelerated reference frame would however never observe your motion as greater than the speed of light. At the same time, your measurement of the speed of light would remain the same for you.
This is all that I have time for right now, as tax time is now an urgent reality for me in my frame of reference.
