Everything in the Known Universe.

[d_stilgar]

If only could travel at 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% the speed of light to see it all in one lifetime. Really gorgeous video.

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[mDust]

If only could travel at 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% the speed of light to see it all in one lifetime. Really gorgeous video.

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Pretty cool video. But even at the speed of light you wouldn't make it out of the Milky Way in your lifetime. Unless an advanced civilization comes and picks up a human and blasts off at well over the speed of light, no human will see any of this stuff as it is now. The best we can do is peer back into time by viewing the light that left the heavens millions or billions of years ago.



*yells* HEY ALIENS, I'M RIGHT HERE. PICK ME! GET ME THE HELL OFF THIS PLANET!

[Zephik]

It's pretty crazy to think that even at the speed of light, you wouldn't even begin to see a fraction of the universe. I imagine it would probably take millions of years to see it all, even at the speed of light.

[d_stilgar]

Pretty cool video. But even at the speed of light you wouldn't make it out of the Milky Way in your lifetime. Unless an advanced civilization comes and picks up a human and blasts off at well over the speed of light, no human will see any of this stuff as it is now. The best we can do is peer back into time by viewing the light that left the heavens millions or billions of years ago.


You gotta look into time dilation. It would be possible if you were traveling close enough to the speed of light to experience the entire universe (within the cosmic horizon) in one lifetime.

[x88x]

You gotta look into time dilation. It would be possible if you were traveling close enough to the speed of light to experience the entire universe (within the cosmic horizon) in one lifetime.

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Very nice video; it does a great job of putting stuff in perspective. It's amazing how small a fraction of the universe we know about, and an even smaller fraction that we've 'touched' (ie, our radio waves have hit). No wonder we haven't been found yet :P I used to have a poster by National Geographic that had a similar layout out to our local star group.

[mDust]

You gotta look into time dilation. It would be possible if you were traveling close enough to the speed of light to experience the entire universe (within the cosmic horizon) in one lifetime.
Yeah, I forgot about that. You'd be able to zip by tons of stuff for billions or trillions of years since time nearly comes to a stop. I still don't think one could see it all...there's just too much. Hundreds of billions of stars in each galaxy and billions of galaxies that we know of; likely billions more that we don't. Comprehension of what just zipped by would be another problem.
If only time reversed at speeds greater than that of light...we could go exploring on foot on every planet, get back into our ship and accelerate past C to rewind time until we start the next adventure at precisely the same time as the previous adventure. Old age would be a thing of the past...one could explore everything there is to explore until some unfortunate event causes death.

[d_stilgar]

I guess I was thinking something along the lines of "101 places you must see before you die" sort of thing.

[mDust]

I guess I was thinking something along the lines of "101 places you must see before you die" sort of thing.

Someone has to find those 101 places before that list can be compiled.;)

[d_stilgar]

I think I could list at least 50 with a little research.

[Collinstheclown]

Fact: The speed of light is approximately 671,000,000 miles per hour.




-CollinstheClown

[x88x]

Fact: The speed of light is approximately 671,000,000 miles per hour.




-CollinstheClown

Fact: Actually, not quite. It's actually 299,792,458 m/s (670,616,629 mph) :P (Not exactly sure where that was important though..)

[mDust]

Considering the billions of unknown galaxies alone, it would be hard to narrow a list of places to see down to a million. It would be like me saying Detroit, Jackson and Saginaw are places to see before one dies without having been outside Michigan. There are likely tons of other places (just about anywhere else) that are higher on the list of things one should see. We just need to explore a bit first, or at least run into a civilization that has already compiled the list for us...and is willing to give us a lift.:whistler:

[Twigsoffury]

here is some science for nerds.

So i guess we've figured out that there is a certain particle that gives you density.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/19702
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meson

(sort of what the hadron collider is about)

well anyways, we've discovered that the amount of these particles in the nucleus in a atom is what gives you your weight density and so on. Well in
"theory" if you removed these meson particles from yourself, you could in theory make yourself fly around at the speed of light, and then replace them afterwards w/o damage.

but at the same time, it seems you remove to many/ add to much and you'll create a mini black hole. so there is alot to be learned about the new types of Quarks A-Quarks, Cause i certainly wouldn't want to turn into a black hole.

"they" were saying i'd be a excellent way to transport objects through space though. like from earth to mars or where ever we are going to planet spam next.

hahaha, but i'm no scientist, so don't hold me to that being 100% correct.