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Calculating mass of the universe

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If leads to then. Is it proven the universe started finite.

Is it proven how the Universe started?

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Originally posted by @great-king-rat
I assume you read the wiki page I posted?

"... space itself is expanding, so we can actually detect light from objects that were once close, but are now up to around 45.7 billion light years away (rather than up to 13.799 billion light years away as might be expected)"
In that scenerio a billion years from now we won't even see what we see today.

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Originally posted by @sonhouse
In that scenerio a billion years from now we won't even see what we see today.
The Virgo cluster will always be gravitationally connected, I doubt that this one will ever expand out of 'our' view.

But the rim of the observable universe of today will be lost outside our reach, whatever ingenious instruments 'we' will use.

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Originally posted by @fabianfnas

But the rim of the observable universe of today will be lost outside our reach, whatever ingenious instruments 'we' will use.
excluding warp drive 😞

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Originally posted by @fabianfnas
The Virgo cluster will always be gravitationally connected, I doubt that this one will ever expand out of 'our' view.

But the rim of the observable universe of today will be lost outside our reach, whatever ingenious instruments 'we' will use.
I do believe the currently accepted model for the distantxdistantxdistant^2 future of the universe predicts that every galaxy (and possibly every star) will be its own universe with no visible galaxies surrounding it.

Naturally this will be many eons after our solar system has disappeared and Andromeda and the Milky Way have collided and formed a new galaxy and that galaxy has formed yet another galaxy with a new neighbouring galaxy etc. etc. etc.

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Originally posted by @great-king-rat
I do believe the currently accepted model for the distantxdistantxdistant^2 future of the universe predicts that every galaxy (and possibly every star) will be its own universe with no visible galaxies surrounding it.

Naturally this will be many eons after our solar system has disappeared and Andromeda and the Milky Way have collided and formed a ...[text shortened]... laxy and that galaxy has formed yet another galaxy with a new neighbouring galaxy etc. etc. etc.
You mean that the repelling force will outrun the gravitational force for every star in universe?

That'll be the day... πŸ˜‰

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Fascinating timeline of the distant future:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

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Originally posted by @fabianfnas
You mean that the repelling force will outrun the gravitational force for every star in universe?

That'll be the day... πŸ˜‰
It'll be the day. But in the far, far, far, far, far future πŸ˜‰

That is, if it even happens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip

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Originally posted by @great-king-rat
It'll be the day. But in the far, far, far, far, far future πŸ˜‰

That is, if it even happens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
Remind me when it happens so I don't miss it!
It would surely be a magnificent view! πŸ™‚

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Originally posted by @fabianfnas
Remind me when it happens so I don't miss it!
It would surely be a magnificent view! πŸ™‚
I'm reading a sci fi book right now, about the end of the universe, I guess bumping into another one, ending ours. "Ultima'' by Stephen Baxter (he is a scientist with a Phd in Aero engineering). Several universes are stumbled into, one where the Roman empire didn't die in the 3rd century but went interstellar,, and another where the Incan empire won out over ever other and IT went interstellar but the bad news was the whole shebang was coming to a screeching haltπŸ™‚

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Originally posted by @fabianfnas
Does measurements of length have any sense inside a black hole, because the spatial dimensions are so curled up?
it all boils down to the Planck length

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Originally posted by @ogb
it all boils down to the Planck length
As always. But does this basic unit put 10^43 times after eachother in a specific direction make a meter within a black hole?

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Originally posted by @fabianfnas
Remind me when it happens so I don't miss it!
It would surely be a magnificent view! πŸ™‚
You've missed the point of a big rip - there won't be a magnificent view as everything viewable will be, to all intents and purposes, an infinite distance away.

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Originally posted by @deepthought
You've missed the point of a big rip - there won't be a magnificent view as everything viewable will be, to all intents and purposes, an infinite distance away.
The thing is, all this is projecting possibilities and we don't know how it will end and scientists come up with scenarios suggesting this and that trillions of years from now as if humans will be here even a million years from now much less a billion or trillion.

Some analysis of humans going interstellar shows humans won't last too long no matter how far away from Earth we establish colonies, 10,000 light years, 10 light years, their studies say we go extinct anyway.

They say teenagers consider themselves immortal but it seems to me the human race considers itself to be immortal.

Tell that to the dinosaurs. Sure they are around today, they are called chickensπŸ™‚

My guess is if the big one was on a collision course with Earth humans would not be able to deflect it very far away anyway no matter how many H bombs we through at it.

For one thing, the ejecta from such bombing would just continue on its merry way hitting Earth in smaller doses but probably overall just as destructive.

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Originally posted by @sonhouse
... suggesting this and that trillions of years from now as if humans will be here even a million years from now much less a billion or trillion.
I've never heard any scientist make that claim πŸ˜•

The fate of the universe - whether it's the big rip or something else - is entirely unrelated to the (lack of) existence of humanity.

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