Thinking about super clusters of galaxies and getting very upset about how big that is.
Don't even get me started on that... gravitational noodle nonsense. I can't handle that stuff yet.
I'm just... going to try to get less upset about the super clusters for now. Don't tell me about anything bigger please.
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@futurebird Back before the evidence of cosmic acceleration, in the period when everyone assumed zero cosmological constant and called cosmology "the search for two numbers", I remember a lot […]
@futurebird it's pretty bad, especially when you consider that everything we can observe only accounts for 5-10% of the matter in the universe
2024-12-02 franco_vazza ┃ edited ┃ 1🔗 1💬
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I sort of get your being annoyed, although I study all of that every day, and I do mostly get the "fun" part.
The fact that these structures are so big and far also means they […]
@futurebird just wait a few hundred billion years and those super clusters will be way beyond your horizon.
How often do you get out from urban light pollution? How do you feel when looking […]
2024-12-02 radiophobicsherkpop
@futurebird I don't know if it's available to you where you are but the UK radio 4 science show Infinite Monkey Cage's latest episode touched on that discombobulating feeling and offered very […]
2024-12-02 nazokiyoubinbou ┃ 1🔗
@futurebird There are a few games I play where they do somewhat realistic simulations of astral bodies. The most realistic, of course, is Elite Dangerous. You can fly towards a red giant and […]
@futurebird next step are the cosmic voids, or supervoids.
There was a really nice graphic of them in one of the scientific America's some time ago.
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@futurebird Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to […]
Is it an agoraphobia feeling or do you feel the same thing contemplating the Planck scale?
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When my son was 9ish I would read him to sleep from a book about the universe. He asked me to stop because he was afraid the universe would end in a black hole. To be fair it did […]
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