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How big is the universe?

foomar

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Might have an answer in another millenia , or two


Thinking on extraterrestrial life goes back at least as far as the Greek antiquity.

The main argument for the existence of life forms and intelligent beings beyond Earth has been most clearly formulated by Metrodorus , disciple of Epicurus, in the 3d century B.C.: “To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one grain will grow.”.
 

mrcreosote

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How big is the universe?

Simple answer. Big.

And getting bigger.

This information will not wow them at a cocktail party. That takes some zippy graphics.
 

Galactic

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more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth. each star larger than our earth. stars separated by light-years of spatial distance. very big, bigger than we've yet to comprehend. and that's just the 3rd dimension.
 

Hubbleman

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To all those who are in favour of multiple universes, what makes u think they are alike our physical one?

Haven't u heard of other dimensions of existence? There are many... Chrubim tell me there 26 AT LEAST.

There are other dimensions out there, no questions
 

noobs1988

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I think it's still entropy in infinite space & the triangle angles measured will always measure a "flat" or infinite universe. The measurements already taken seem pretty conclusive doing the math & accuracy needed. A finite universe would seem to indicate expansion from a central point. The universe is not expanding from a central point.
The universe is expanding from a central point. that's the big bang theory.
 

D. B. Doober

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String theory. I think there's multiple universes. Time travel is Dependant on that. The future will rock. Check out the Montauk Project and time travel to 1984, 2000, 2012 and then to like 2374 where Atlanta is the satanic capital and gets shelled and the world is run by floating crystals the Soviets had found and they issue warrants for yellow and red violations virtually 24/7
Zoinks
 

D. B. Doober

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After smoking Sativa's without knowing it for years and having PTSD I really looked into parallel universes and time travel that I was certain there was a cult in Hollywood where famous people have kids and they bring them back to the 1920's to raise them.

Another story about time travel was going to NYC in the early 1970's with really good bud and everyone from NYCshowed up because the weeed was so ggood. They had to hustle back into the time machine and get out of there
 

MAHA KALA

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the qeustion "what is it?" never gets you to think the essences... how big(quantity) is one the kategories of "to be being

if oyu want to know the essence, you have to ask what leads to it.. question the tendencies.. and it´s the universe.. tendencies..

big bang means " it arised " - genesis

but what leads to genesis? answer: time.. question what it is time is senseless..

oh i dont mean time which is contituted by diachronic operators, linear time.. i mean time that lead to the big bang..

peace
 

dddaver

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I think the universe, or even multiple universes, and even more exist. Space has to be never ending, infinite. Even before the "big bang" something, even a vacuum, had to be there.

I think the same thing about time. Which is totally man made, but has to be infinite and never ending, or beginning either. So...what happened before that?

Maybe you find out that truth when you die. I personally can wait. :biggrin:
 

Stonefree69

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The universe is expanding from a central point. that's the big bang theory.
True, still there is no "center" to the universe - all matter is expanding @ the same basic rate no matter where you go, not from any central point. Can be a bit puzzling... The Big Bang or so as it quoted did happen from a very very compacted center and space itself expanded at that instant faster than the speed of light.

Dark Matter and even Dark Energy - that's another thing to find & solve for too. So much we don't know yet but am confident we'll at least find out some of this stuff eventually... :)
 

Madjag

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Sorry, our minds cannot have this discussion in a useful way.

You cannot ask an ant to do physics; our limited mental capacities can only make up words and concepts, to satisfy our own limited abilities to perceive the unlimited.

A map is not the same as the territory itself.
 

devilgoob

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If there are any other universes, how could there be? One. Unified. Singly. Universe.

If I am able to mention "them" the other universe, then they're a part of mine. Not in time or space, but consciousness, because you see there is another being thinking the same thing in an "alternate" universe, that if another being an another universe thinks the same thing about another universe, even though they're not connected in time, or space, they are connected with something else.
 

Stonefree69

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%E2%80%93Corona_Borealis_Great_Wall

Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall

by the time the universe was 4 billion years old there was a galaxy 10 billion light years across
To show space expanded faster than the speed of light in the "Big Bang" (carrying matter in space-time with it): The best estimate of the age of the universe as of 2013 is 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years but due to the expansion of space humans are observing objects that were originally much closer but are now considerably farther away (as defined in terms of cosmological proper distance, which is equal to the comoving distance at the present time) than a static 13.8 billion light-years distance. It is estimated that the diameter of the observable universe is about 28 billion parsecs (93 billion light-years), putting the edge of the observable universe at about 46–47 billion light-years away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe


As far as other dimensions there are supposed to be 11 in total with the last a line going on in infinity (string theory). Some Physicists should brush up on their Geometry IMHO if they want to get a clearer picture @ least in 3D. Even Einstein had trouble with "3D maths" as it was so tedious before computers - working on his final Unified Field Theory which was never completed. Still he was right in so many ways. There does seem to a lots of emerging proof that there are "Universi" in a Multiverse.
 

SpasticGramps

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M-Theory which is an extension of string theory tries to answer these questions.

One particularly interesting aspect of it was how gravity in the dimension that we experience is just a small bleed over from another dimension as relative to other forces (nuclear, etc) it is incredibly weak.

The Universe In a Nutshell by Hawkings is a great read.

Relative to what the truth really is we are still monkeys playing with rocks when it comes to these concepts and many concepts of science in general. But I believe evidence clearly suggests there are multiple dimensions and universes.
 

SpasticGramps

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Sorry, our minds cannot have this discussion in a useful way.
Sure they can. Just as monkeys played with sticks and stones in what seemed probably like an equally futile way when they started. They eventually figured out what to do with them.

The difficulty of the task shouldn't hinder discussion, but rather encourage it.

What if they monkeys said "fuck it" our minds cannot grasp the use of these object in any useful way? You wouldn't typing on a keyboard encouraging the same would you?
 
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