Daddy Dee Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I can't begin to get my mind around the size of this large cluster of quasars. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50434185/ns/technology_and_science-space/ http://www.space.com/19227-biggest-structure-universe-explained-infographic.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang guy Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 4 billion light years across! The Milky Way Galaxie that we are in has 200-400 BILLION Stars (solar systems). It is only 100,000 light years across. I wonder why they call it a structure. That must be an astro-physics term. I'll have to ask my son when he wakes up in the morning. Very interesting for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audio Android Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 That's totally insane.....[]......4 Billion lightyears.....1200 Megapasecs.....across.......4 BILLION LIGHTYEARS!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest " " Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 could be the center of the next big bang....if that were to collapse into a pin head...another dimension could be born. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Richard Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 It takes light at 186,000 miles/second 4 billion years to get across the structure. The fastest thing man has made is one of our space probes going about 55,000 miles per hour. Makes you feel rather small, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Seems small in comparison to this... (already out of date) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted January 12, 2013 Author Share Posted January 12, 2013 4 billion light years across! The Milky Way Galaxie that we are in has 200-400 BILLION Stars (solar systems). It is only 100,000 light years across. I wonder why they call it a structure. That must be an astro-physics term. I'll have to ask my son when he wakes up in the morning. Very interesting for sure. mustang guy, I'm sure interested to hear your son's take on why it is described as a structure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
germerikan Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I would say that is very big!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 By Motorola, very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 And just think---he latest Quantum Mechanics mathwork on black holes mathematically greases the new theory that the universe is a 3D holograpic projection. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest " " Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 It takes light at 186,000 miles/second 4 billion years to get across the structure. The fastest thing man has made is one of our space probes going about 55,000 miles per hour. Makes you feel rather small, no? so now, scientist think there really is such a thing as a graviton and that it has no speed limit, so the tip of that quasars axis could swing and point our way every few thousand years and have the same effect as the mysterious planet X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Richard Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 We are starting to learn more about gravity, but what we know is still theoretical and our current knowledge of gravity is based on observations from within the 4-dimensional space time continuum in which we live. According to M-Theory there are 11 dimensions, and we have next to no understanding of the other 7, but the gravatational force is thought to be transdimensional in nature. There could be dimension(s) where gravity exists independent of mass, and vice versa, which could explain dark matter and dark energy. The speed limit of light speed is valid is valid only within our space-time continuum and some of the other theoretical dimensions may not be so limited. Or so we think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seti Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Or as Douglas Adams would say "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Load this... use the slider... prepared to be blown away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Load this... use the slider... prepared to be blown away. Cool. Hard to wrap my little pea brain around that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
germerikan Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Great link Schu!! You were right!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Seems small in comparison to this... (already out of date) As Sam Kinison would say.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Seems small in comparison to this... (already out of date) As Sam Kinison would say.... [Y] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Load this... use the slider... prepared to be blown away. DAMMMN!!!, I need some crack to finish that one...... Seriously though, thanks for the link..... too cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 But space is so vast..IT too incompairison is small. We have room for billions of Universes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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