Sciencey stuff......200 Billion galaxies

[Blansky]

I hope this doesn't result in the same fate as the last one, but if you disagree with science please be polite.

I love this.... "This quantum-ness means that if you try to peer too closely, you’ll run into the observer effect: Attempting to see things this small requires bouncing light off of them, and the energy from this interaction can fundamentally change that which you’re attempting to observe."

The paradox of when trying to observe something, you fundamentally change it.

Kind of like reality television.....turn the camera on people and they change.


https://gizmodo.com/what-we-will-nev...ign=pockethits

[Sperry]

Meanwhile, on an earth-like planet orbiting a star in a galaxy far far away, steel luxury tool and sports watches are in a-plenty . . .

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by Sperry

Meanwhile, on an earth-like planet orbiting a star in a galaxy far far away, steel luxury tool and sports watches are in a-plenty . . .

Just not fair.

[jatco]

An interesting read needless to say.. and they sum it up precisely...
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"There are things that we’ll never know, but that’s not the right way to think about scientific discovery. We won’t know unless we attempt to know, by asking questions, crafting hypotheses, and testing them with experiments. The vast unknown, both leading up to and beyond our boundaries, presents limitless opportunities to ask questions, uncover more knowledge, and even render previous limits obsolete. We cannot truly know the unknowable, then, since the unknowable is just what remains when we can no longer hypothesize and experiment. The unknowable isn’t fact—it’s something we decide."

..I guess that's how we got to the moon...and beyond..

[herts9]

In order to understand everything, we need a brain better than what we've been fitted with.

Big Bang Theory where the origins of everything happened at "Time Zero". If time is thought of in a linear sense, what was before that? I love that there are things that are unable to be explained, regardless of how much rationale and science we put into figuring it out.

[Mendota]

Originally Posted by herts9

In order to understand everything, we need a brain better than what we've been fitted with.

Big Bang Theory where the origins of everything happened at "Time Zero". If time is thought of in a linear sense, what was before that? I love that there are things that are unable to be explained, regardless of how much rationale and science we put into figuring it out.

One of the new theories out there is there is no beginning or end. The singularity and big expansion is followed by the big contraction, which is followed by another singularity and big expansion, and so on and so forth for eternity. There is no end or beginning, it's circular. I just hope someday when we pass we are able to learn all of this stuff and have the ability to go out into the rest of the universe and see the wonders out there. It's fascinating to look at the mind boggling images from Hubble and the European Southern Observatory.

[herts9]

Originally Posted by Mendota

One of the new theories out there is there is no beginning or end. The singularity and big expansion is followed by the big contraction, which is followed by another singularity and big expansion, and so on and so forth for eternity. There is no end or beginning, it's circular. I just hope someday when we pass we are able to learn all of this stuff and have the ability to go out into the rest of the universe and see the wonders out there. It's fascinating to look at the mind boggling images from Hubble and the European Southern Observatory.

I've read the expansion and contraction theories, and it's truly fascinating. I enjoy all of the thoughts. It's unsettling but satisfying to try and think outside of the start/finish constraints. I mean, there had to be something, somewhere, that consciously or unconsciously created everything the way we know/don't know it. But then, what before that? It's amazing. All the way down to how perfectly a cell is constructed and how it operates and proliferates. Too perfect for just being a chance happening. Not going into the higher power debate or anything, but glad I get to spend a quarter-century in this existence to appreciate it.

[Mendota]

Originally Posted by herts9

I've read the expansion and contraction theories, and it's truly fascinating. I enjoy all of the thoughts. It's unsettling but satisfying to try and think outside of the start/finish constraints. I mean, there had to be something, somewhere, that consciously or unconsciously created everything the way we know/don't know it. But then, what before that? It's amazing. All the way down to how perfectly a cell is constructed and how it operates and proliferates. Too perfect for just being a chance happening. Not going into the higher power debate or anything, but glad I get to spend a quarter-century in this existence to appreciate it.

Agreed 100%. There is too much order for everything to be the result of just random happenstance. My daily Google news feed is filled with astronomy articles and another theory is everything will just keep expanding and cooling for eternity and eventually the Milky Way/Andromeda merger will be the only thing in the observable universe. We'll be all alone. Literally everything we can see right now with Hubble will have traveled away from us and won't be visible anymore. By that time the sun will have gone red giant and burned our atmosphere off. 🪐

I firmly believe that our consciousness is our soul, as well. That's a whole 'nother conversation!

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[TheVTCGuy]

I counted them all last night, came up with 200 billion and one.

[jatco]

Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

I counted them all last night, came up with 200 billion and one.

You sure about the 'one' ..

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by jatco

You sure about the 'one' ..

Hmmmm….. Darn it! Now I’ll have to start all over again!!!


One….two….three….

[JonaG]

“What we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning,”German physicist Werner Heisenberg.

[The Joker]

More stars then grains of sand on earth.....hard to fathom.

Paul, something else for you to count, let us know what's more.