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Title: Looking Deeper
Post by: holtender on 17 November 2009, 23:42:17
Looking out into the Universe makes many of us wonder why is it all there?

Well it does me!

Here is a wonderful clip from the Hubble Telescope.

http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: threppence on 17 November 2009, 23:59:32
Why is it all there? Maybe some random Quantum fluctuations in 16 dimensional time space continuum..........sod it......God did it! ;)
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Dishevelled Den on 18 November 2009, 09:19:12
Absolutely awesome, what a great find H 8-) :y :y
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: STMO999 on 18 November 2009, 11:39:58
It's a bit early in the day to be contemplating stuff like that.
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 18 November 2009, 11:50:49
Brain bending stuff..........another 3,000 new galaxies in apparently "empty space"..............
Is it really only us?........... :y :y :y
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 18 November 2009, 11:54:29
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It's a bit early in the day to be contemplating stuff like that.

.............do they still think the Earth is flat in Wakefield?............ ::) ::) ;)
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: STMO999 on 18 November 2009, 12:39:41
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It's a bit early in the day to be contemplating stuff like that.

.............do they still think the Earth is flat in Wakefield?............ ::) ::) ;)


I only go as far as asda and back..........pretty flat ;D
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Gaffers on 18 November 2009, 13:09:45
Very humbling indeed, great find!

But I dont understand one part of the commentary.

"Some of these universes are moving away from us sometimes faster than  the speed of light"

How is it possible to see them then.  What light is faster than the speed of light?  :-/
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: holtender on 18 November 2009, 19:08:39
I think what we see is the trail of light that was left behind many, many years ago.

Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 18 November 2009, 20:42:06
I read the title and thought you had been for a penis extention ::) ;D :P
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 18 November 2009, 20:55:45
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Very humbling indeed, great find!

But I dont understand one part of the commentary.

"Some of these universes are moving away from us sometimes faster than  the speed of light"

How is it possible to see them then.  What light is faster than the speed of light?  :-/

Just because something is moving away at the speed of light does not stop it emitting light re-wards.....if you run off the back of a 30mph train...at 30mph ....what happens.
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: albitz on 18 November 2009, 20:58:24
you die. :y :D ;D
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 18 November 2009, 21:00:07
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Very humbling indeed, great find!

But I dont understand one part of the commentary.

"Some of these universes are moving away from us sometimes faster than  the speed of light"

How is it possible to see them then.  What light is faster than the speed of light?  :-/

Just because something is moving away at the speed of light does not stop it emitting light re-wards.....if you run off the back of a 30mph train...at 30mph ....what happens.


The train stops? ::)
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: amba on 18 November 2009, 21:05:03
Trains down here don,t often travel at 30mph..yheu have too many people in them !!
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: rob in gib on 18 November 2009, 21:15:19
I remember writing an essay in school in which i proposed the theory that the galaxy as we know it was indeed nothing but an experiment in a giant test tube by some higher being got an A+

Well now i suppose my teacher would give me nothing above a C

Things like this do make you feel very humble nice post  :y
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 18 November 2009, 21:24:38
We went to Jodrell Bank a few weeks ago, which since the last time we went has had several things removed like the Planetarium which we enjoyed. Anyway they have a 3D A Trip to Mars film which really is excellent. On the way it takes you past the Sun then other huge stars that dwarf the sun almost to a speck :o

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/06/what-is-the-biggest-star-in-the-universe/
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Gaffers on 18 November 2009, 21:25:54
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Very humbling indeed, great find!

But I dont understand one part of the commentary.

"Some of these universes are moving away from us sometimes faster than  the speed of light"

How is it possible to see them then.  What light is faster than the speed of light?  :-/

Just because something is moving away at the speed of light does not stop it emitting light re-wards.....if you run off the back of a 30mph train...at 30mph ....what happens.

True but if you are moving away from something faster than the speed of light, how can you see it?  The light waves will never reach you.  It's just like 2 jets flying faster than the speed of sound, if one was infront of the other he would never hear the jet behind him.
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Martin_1962 on 18 November 2009, 22:02:25
Well objects with mass are supposed to be unable to go faster than light.

Too tired to think about relativity and light
Title: Re: Looking Deeper
Post by: Jimbob on 19 November 2009, 07:07:43
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We went to Jodrell Bank a few weeks ago, which since the last time we went has had several things removed like the Planetarium which we enjoyed. Anyway they have a 3D A Trip to Mars film which really is excellent. On the way it takes you past the Sun then other huge stars that dwarf the sun almost to a speck :o

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/06/what-is-the-biggest-star-in-the-universe/


the planetarium has gone  :o :o :o  :'( :'( :'(

been thinking of paying that a visit for old times sake  :'(