How large is the Universe???

Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:32 pm by skavengur

"From the sounds of it though, he is a creationist, so im not even going to bother...."

Wow, maybe my idea of a creationists is not the same as yours. I happen to believe that the universe is a product of a creator. However, I don't take the timeline given in Genesis literally. Maybe that's where I differ.

I like to think of the dinosaur's existence as a way to prepare the earth for mankind. They were here to build the ecosystem for mankind's existence. My cousin once told me, when I had asked him about starting a freshwater fish tank, to buy some goldfish first. If they die, leave them in the tank as that will build the ecosystem up for later fish. Whether he was right or wrong I don't know, but I think the analogy fits my idea.

As to the size of the universe, Stephen Hawking had some amazing ideas that I can barely grasp. I know this, if you got space.com and check out their hubble pics, it will blow your mind. I've got a background of one image that shows hundreds of galaxies, and if I remember right, it's just a snapshot the size of your thumb if you were to hold it to the sky. Mind boggling to actually get a small glimpse of the vastness of the universe. I could go on and on but I'll stop. I'm sure I'm rambling by now...

Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:17 pm by _zero

no no thats intresting.I have a nice thing to explain how BIG the universe is.
you know some times when you look up to the sky and see a star?wel that star might allready be dead but the light it emits takes so long to get here we still se it.so we are actually looking into the past
imagine that star is dead for over 10.000 years and we still see the light from it.
this is from a site it explains almost the same thing

For example, Supernova 1987a occurred in a "nearby" galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud (adjacent figure). Its light was observed on earth in 1987, but the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud is about 190,000 light years. Thus, we normally say that Supernova 1987a occurred in 1987, but it really happened about 190,000 years earlier; only in 1987 did the light of the explosion reach the earth! If we want to know what the Large Magellanic Cloud looks like "now", we will have to wait 190,000 years.

link

Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:28 pm by freighter fighter

http://fpeng.peopledaily.com.cn/200112/ ... 6589.shtml

http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/ ... aste2.html

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/Bayer/subgr ... index.html

http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular ... em370_s03/

http://www.eere.energy.gov/bro/neen/tec ... trash.html

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/5640524.htm

if you want more, find em yourself ( converting trash to oil )

Edited by - freighter fighter on 03-07-2003 01:13:53

Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:43 am by Tachyon

None of those links prove your point though. One has nothing to do with converting trash to oil. The techniques listed are a hell of a lot different of pressure added over thousands of years. One even states that naturally occuring oil takes millions of years. Would be exciting if they turn out to be true and feasible, though frankly I'd rather see hydrogen technologies pushed more than antiquated oil. Oops, going off topic...

Thu Jul 03, 2003 1:06 am by Setsuna

Big enough to earn the title "Infinite"...

Thu Jul 03, 2003 7:38 am by red

Did you see the film Men in Black. I liked the way they portrayed another universe contained within a marble. I really liked the way they just come up with something amazing like that. If anyone watched Red Dwarf I am sure they must have come up with a couple of theories (very funny ones) during the course of their many series.
I do remember the episode with 3 Red Dwarfs which contained 3 alternative personalities of the main characters. My old university friend used to collect videos of that series.

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