Found this map of the universe on bbzzdd

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: Anubis
sorry it took so long here are the full size versions


http://www.rootminus1.com/things/milkyway.jpg <- 11.3 megs 6000x3877

http://www.rootminus1.com/things/universe.jpg <- 10.1 megs 6000x3888

and a few more to grow on... Perhaps you could download and mirror these off a non rapidshare host as well?

yea ill hopefully remember when i get home

blah i hate rapid share and its wait time inbetween Dls

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: JS80
How do you read that map? Where is the center of the universe?

The universe has no center.

The center isn't where the big bang occurred?

The term big bang is kind of a misnomer that leads to some confusion. It's not like a bomb. The big bang wasn't an explosion in space, but OF space. So there is no center. Or it is equally true to say that every point in the universe is the center.

Here's a link Text

I think the balloon analogy helped to conceptualize it.

 

[Anubis]

http://www.rootminus1.com/things/Mars.jpg

http://www.rootminus1.com/thin...ar%20System%201981.jpg

 

[Anubis]

http://rootminus1.com/things/WorldSatelliteMap.jpg

http://rootminus1.com/things/WorldPhysicalMap.jpg

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
Thanks to leet_haxxor on pics.bbzzdd.com:

Universe | Milky Way

Stuff like this makes me wish we had 3D projectors to help see things like this in a new light.

I preemptively claim amnesty from Oldsmoboats Second Law.

you're welcome i forgot what the password to my old bbzzdd account was, so i made "leet_haxxor"

i have much higher res ones (you can read all the text)... they are 11.3mb each though. Any idea what the file size limit is on bbzzdd?



edit: 56k WARNING... images are 6000x3888

The Milky Way

The Universe

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
Thanks to leet_haxxor on pics.bbzzdd.com:

Universe | Milky Way

Stuff like this makes me wish we had 3D projectors to help see things like this in a new light.

I preemptively claim amnesty from Oldsmoboats Second Law.

you're welcome i forgot what the password to my old bbzzdd account was, so i made "leet_haxxor"

i have much higher res ones (you can read all the text)... they are 11.3mb each though. Any idea what the file size limit is on bbzzdd?



edit: 56k WARNING... images are 6000x3888

The Milky Way

The Universe

lol i posted up the big ones yesterday

 

[BoomerD]

I don't know if this has been asked before or not, but how can that be the endless, unlimited universe? It has edges...and only goes so far.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

The universe is expanding form all points within it. No matter where you are in the universe, everything is moving away from you.

A better analogy than the baloon: Put a straw in a glass of soapy water and blow. The bubbles are the universe, and all of the galaxies ride on the edges of the bubbles; the soapy water is the nothing surrounding the universe. Outside of the universe are probably an infinite number of universes, and inside our universe there are also probably an infinite number of universes, all being created and destroyed on a relative time scale.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
The universe is expanding form all points within it. No matter where you are in the universe, everything is moving away from you.

A better analogy than the baloon: Put a straw in a glass of soapy water and blow. The bubbles are the universe, and all of the galaxies ride on the edges of the bubbles; the soapy water is the nothing surrounding the universe. Outside of the universe are probably an infinite number of universes, and inside our universe there are also probably an infinite number of universes, all being created and destroyed on a relative time scale.

I do prefer the bubble analogy. But you have to keep in mind that the universe is a single bubble, the outside surface of the bubble is 3-dimensional space, and the expansion of the bubble represents the passage of time, which is non-linear and non-uniform. When cosmologists talk about using their telescopes to look back in time, they mean it literally.

Whether there are or are not an infinite number of universes is a complete unknown. Asking what exists outside existence is like asking what happened before time. Or what's north of the North Pole?

The probability of an infinite number of universes inside the universes would depend on the number of time axes. If there is only one, then there is only one timeline. If there are an infinite number of time axes, then there would be an infinity of timelines. In either case, I don't think it would be correct to describe them as being created or destroyed. The concept of infinite timelines does give new life to the idea of human freewill within a universal model where time is really just an illusion of our consciousnesses.