in the future ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Monk
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in the future ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Monk
well, I made a comment about the universe being round in one of those 20 threads you lost, in response to your remark about the universe going on forever. I suppose it was more of a joke, I think there was a wink that went along with my remark. I could probably build a pretty good argument for the universe being round, but who really knows. It is all very interesting though, having pondered the question off and on since the 60s, I still don't have a good answer. We could talk about the big bang theory, and whether or not the universe is expanding, or you could read Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time".Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Monk
The Hubble Space Telescope blows me away. There is a picture taken by Hubble a couple of years ago that I won't bother to post, which shows light sources so far away that I think it took somewhere around 18 billion years for the light which that photograph displays to reach the onboard camera. :o According to my calculations, that's about...
171,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometres.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_numbers
WMAP data tell us the age of our universe with a margin of error of close to 1%...Quote:
Originally Posted by f
And the answer is:
13.7 Billion Years Old! ;D
You need to recalculate,sorry!
my head hurtsQuote:
Originally Posted by f
::) ok ok 130,150,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers then. sheesh. ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by gogs67
The first repair of the Hubble in 1992 ranks as probably the engineering achievement of my lifetime. 8)
http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ts_000118.html
simple calculations will show that if the universe is indeed round, then its circumference is ...
8.1775656772942317997182607266765e+32 microns. give or take a few.
and since you all probably think I am bullshitting...
OK, according to GOGS67, the universe is 13.7 Billion Years Old! (13,700,000,000)
And we know that the speed of Light is about 300,000 kilometers per second, and
if we believe the big bang theory, which says that the universe began as an infinitisamally small point, and surrounding it was nothing, not even empty space, ;D
Then we do a few calculations to determine the circumference of the universe.
Light travels at the speed of 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers per year
now we will make a bit of a leap here and say that the universe is expanding at the speed of light so
if we multiply the speed of light in kilometers/year by the age of the universe in years. The years cancel each other out and we get
9,500,000,000,000 x 13,700,000,000 = 130,150,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers, this is the radius of our circular (spherical actually) universe.
now, primary school math tells us that the circumference of a circle is 2 x pi x r, where r is the radius. Also, pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795
so...
2 x 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 x 130,150,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 817,756,567,729,423,179,971,826.07266752
This last number is the circumference of the universe, in kilometers.
OK. 1 meter is 1/1,000 of a kilometer, and 1 micron is 1/1,000,000 of a meter.
So 1 km = 1000 x 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000 1 billion microns.
almost there.
817,756,567,729,423,179,971,826.07266752 x 1,000,000,000 = 8.1775656772942317997182607266765e+32
This is the same as 817,756,567,729,423,179,971,826,072,667,650 microns
There you go. The circunference of the universe on the date that GOG67 13.7 billion year "measurement" was made.
GOGS, I have a coolclick trivia question for you. According to these calculations, what will be the volume of the universe, in cubic microns, the next time Scotland wins the World Cup?
nobody like them d-monk, they was shit, so saddo cleared them all, please do not post another thread. no actually just leave the forum!
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Didn't this happen a while ago but not a whole 6 months, we lost such quality threads as 'The power punching specialist' :D
Thats easy!............................................. ...............Infinity! ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by f
LOL Oh ye of little faith. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by gogs67
dont mind me just trying somthing ;)
Its ever expanding , question is whats in the spaces between the expansion,Nothing? cant be really,b cause of cause and effect?
each partical electron proton neutron sub atomic particals etc that make matter , matter! and atoms have effects on other atoms through the void which is made of ??? either vortexes of ether ??? So is the void sub atomic fluid (electromagmetic )or is it self propelling hydromechanical? creating total fluidity = viscidity.
Its Love and the answer is 666, 333, 111 and so on.= you and you, box on.
See, the bubbles in beer do count.
no you're not.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebekah
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Phsyicists did what they always do when there seems to be a hole in the equation and that's 'Make something up'!Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre
'Dark matter' is what fills the spaces!No-one knows what it is but it's there! ??? ;D
was that the fella who was going to get his wife to punch me because we had dared criticise his watermelon boxing? ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by AdamGB