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    Quote Originally Posted by Filterlab View Post
    These days, 67MB doesn't even cover one full resolution image taken on an iPhone 15 Pro Max; and that's for entirety of a space craft including data recording - on a piece of tape.
    Amazing content memory wise, wow!

    Quote Originally Posted by Daddelvirks View Post
    The fact the universe is expanding so fast that in the end there will be only blackness and no stars in the sky is beyond my comprehension.
    I never knew that, thank you, my mind is blown for the week now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mj2k View Post
    Amazing content memory wise, wow!



    I never knew that, thank you, my mind is blown for the week now.
    They explained it with an elasticated rubber mat example, if you stand in the middle of the mat and they have put some apples at random places on the mat and start pulling at the edges you remain at the same spot and the apples are getting away from you.

    But the fact it will all turn black around us is still not really taking shape in my mind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daddelvirks View Post
    They explained it with an elasticated rubber mat example, if you stand in the middle of the mat and they have put some apples at random places on the mat and start pulling at the edges you remain at the same spot and the apples are getting away from you.

    But the fact it will all turn black around us is still not really taking shape in my mind.
    I wouldn't worry too much. The Earth and all upon it will be long gone by the time any noticeable darkness is visible. Our own star will wipe us out, plus the Andromeda Galaxy is fast on its way to us like a freight train.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mouse View Post
    I wouldn't worry too much. The Earth and all upon it will be long gone by the time any noticeable darkness is visible. Our own star will wipe us out, plus the Andromeda Galaxy is fast on its way to us like a freight train.
    No worries mate ;)

    Just can't get my head wrapped around the fact.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daddelvirks View Post
    No worries mate ;)

    Just can't get my head wrapped around the fact.
    I get that. The universe is truly mind boggling. Shame, on a personal basis, we'll never know what it's all about - well I assume we'll never know, but I stand to be corrected in some future multi-dimensional life :)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daddelvirks View Post
    They explained it with an elasticated rubber mat example, if you stand in the middle of the mat and they have put some apples at random places on the mat and start pulling at the edges you remain at the same spot and the apples are getting away from you.

    But the fact it will all turn black around us is still not really taking shape in my mind.
    Rubber mat…..are you saying the universe is flat like the earth? lol


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mj2k View Post
    Rubber mat…..are you saying the universe is flat like the earth? lol


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    That is what they are thinking at the moment, there is no evidence it might be different.
    Last edited by Daddelvirks; 30th April 2024 at 21:30.
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    What's it expanding into?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Filterlab View Post
    What's it expanding into?
    I think nothing exploded and is expanding into nothingness.
    Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    I think nothing exploded and is expanding into nothingness.
    That's what blows my mind, if all the mass was in one "dot" before the big bang and the universe didn't exist, what did that dot exist within? And now it's expanding what is it expanding into? Is it a big box and the universe will hit the walls eventually? If so what is the box in? Another box?

    It presumably has something to dowith there being no edge and it sort of wrpas back around on itself in a dimension we don't understand i.e. in the same way the earth is a globe and you can go roudn in any direction and get back to where you started if you go far enough in one direction in the universe will you get to the opposite side of the universe from which you were heading. James Webb telescope might give us more clues and it's successor in 30 years time might be able to go even further.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    I think nothing exploded and is expanding into nothingness.
    Ahhh, of course.

    Here on earth an explosion takes quite a concerted effort to conduct, in space however, where there was nothing, it appears to have been quite easy.

    I've never been wholly convinced at the big bang theory.

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