The Grand Scale of the Universe

[TheChaosCarrier]

this is why i love astronomy more than anything else in the world.
studying space is just loving awesome.

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[TheScout]

this is why i love astronomy more than anything else in the world.
studying space is just loving awesome.

Here at Aperture Science, we post stuff that makes you stuff brix.

[Frenchfrie]

This is from the movie "What the bleep do we know"

A speech by carl sagan.

[Jubel]

[TheScout]

Looks neat

[Jubel]

Looks neat

Was on discovery channel a few months ago.

[*Magick* Mage]

Quite amazing just how vast the universe is. It makes just about every feud man has ever had seem very piety. Rather pointless, even. Such a magnificent cosmos around us, yet so often we fail to see it.

[TeslaCoil]

Hey guys.


Religion.

[*Magick* Mage]

Hey guys.


Religion.

Providence has done well on constructing this universe for us, yes? :D!

[Oasis]

Just think, we can only see what light permits us to see. The universe could be near infinite, and the light from the edge has yet to make it to Earth.

[pocketrocket300]

Just think, we can only see what light permits us to see. The universe could be near infinite, and the light from the edge has yet to make it to Earth.

Holy hell. 

[Kalphiter]

Just think, we can only see what light permits us to see. The universe could be near infinite, and the light from the edge has yet to make it to Earth.

um... no

At the edge of the visible universe, we can see new galaxies as if the big bang has just reached that part.
That means it's not infinite, but bigger than what we can see now.

[*Magick* Mage]

um... no

At the edge of the visible universe, we can see new galaxies as if the big bang has just reached that part.
That means it's not infinite, but bigger than what we can see now.

Isn't that what Oasis just said...? o.o

[Oasis]

um... no

At the edge of the visible universe, we can see new galaxies as if the big bang has just reached that part.
That means it's not infinite, but bigger than what we can see now.

Read before you post. I said "could".

[ZSNO]

If the universe is infinite, how can that be?
If the universe is finite, whats beyond the edge?