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The Space Megathread - theories and discussion
Khaz:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on October 15, 2017, 03:06:47 AM ---The universe is doing a good job of pulling apart. The reason why there's a "Known universe" is because everything outside of the observable edge is moving so fast away from us, the light hasn't reached us yet and probably never will in time.
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i never even thought about that like that but it makes alot of loving sense
IkeTheGeneric:
Think about it like this, all that we observe from outside of our little blue dot is light coming from whatever's out there. That's why long exposure shots of the night sky seem so vivid and full, because the more time you have a camera fixed towards space, the more light is able to reach the lens and be recorded.
What we're observing isn't where it was when we see it, and objects really far from us that we observed have moved way, way farther from their original position than objects we observed closer to us.
Becquerel:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on October 15, 2017, 03:15:18 AM ---Think about it like this, all that we observe from outside of our little blue dot is light coming from whatever's out there. That's why long exposure shots of the night sky seem so vivid and full, because the more time you have a camera fixed towards space, the more light is able to reach the lens and be recorded.
What we're observing isn't where it was when we see it, and objects really far from us that we observed have moved way, way farther from their original position than objects we observed closer to us.
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I gotta call God and tell him that our connection to the universe is pretty god damn ridden with lag
OT Do Kerr black holes even exist?
Khaz:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on October 15, 2017, 03:15:18 AM ---snip
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yeah i kinda touched up on that with this post:
--- Quote from: Khaz on October 14, 2017, 07:15:05 PM ---we can only see history through capturing light. if we look up to the sky through a telescope and see something that's 1000 light-years away, we are seeing it as it was 1000 years ago because it takes 1000 years for it's light to reach us.
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it's kinda crazy. everything we know that exists is because of light and we only know that it exists because of light. and then to take in the factor that those objects aren't even there anymore at the time we finally see them. it's cool but also in a way frustrating/perplexing because like where are those objects now!?!?!?
Verification:
Betelgeuse might have exploded by now and we wouldnt be able to tell