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Digital Nausea
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PostPosted: 03-20-2012 07:37 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I can't quite grasp the concept of looking at galaxies and other objects which are at the beginning of their life after the big bang.  So these objects are closer than we are to the origin of the big bang?  How would we be father away and yet not as old as these objects?  It would make sense to me, the farther away from the location of the big bang, the older you would be.  Could you clear this up?




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PostPosted: 03-20-2012 07:39 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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xer0s wrote:
I can't quite grasp the concept of looking at galaxies and other objects which are at the beginning of their life after the big bang.  So these objects are closer than we are to the origin of the big bang?  How would we be father away and yet not as old as these objects?  It would make sense to me, the farther away from the location of the big bang, the older you would be.  Could you clear this up?



Light travels from point a to point b. What you see is light. If light takes x number of years to travel from point a to point b then people on point b are seeing what happened x years ago.




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PostPosted: 03-20-2012 07:44 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


lol, I actually tried to ask Neil this question during his last AMA on reddit. But it's impossible to get past the other hundreds of questions for him...




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Galaxies, stars and planets weren't all formed at the same time after the Big Bang. It just marks the beginning of anything. Besides, you hardly have time to worry about these things seeing as how the LHC is going to create a black hole and kill us all anyway.

Neil would have facepalmed.



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PostPosted: 03-20-2012 07:46 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


i see dumbos...EVERYWHERE!!!...




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xer0s wrote:
lol, I actually tried to ask Neil this question during his last AMA on reddit.


LEAVE NEIL ALONE!!1 >:'-(




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Galaxies, stars and planets weren't all formed at the same time after the Big Bang. It just marks the beginning of anything. Besides, you hardly have time to worry about these things seeing as how the LHC is going to create a black hole and kill us all anyway.

Neil would have facepalmed.

also, their mass influences the speed at which they travel through space. we could be younger but still have taken them over.




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PostPosted: 03-20-2012 07:59 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Κracus wrote:
xer0s wrote:
I can't quite grasp the concept of looking at galaxies and other objects which are at the beginning of their life after the big bang.  So these objects are closer than we are to the origin of the big bang?  How would we be father away and yet not as old as these objects?  It would make sense to me, the farther away from the location of the big bang, the older you would be.  Could you clear this up?



Light travels from point a to point b. What you see is light. If light takes x number of years to travel from point a to point b then people on point b are seeing what happened x years ago.


I've always understood that. I don't think you understand what I'm asking. I think obsidian gets it better...




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Why does Australia have all the weird-as-fuck creatures? It's like aliens visited the continent and left behind their petting zoo.



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PostPosted: 03-20-2012 08:20 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


not cool to talk about the abbos that way, bro.




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abbos are fucking ugly ppl...




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Ok, so the Milky Way is around 13 billion years old, and we are looking at a galaxy that is only 500,000 old. The astrophysicists say "We are looking at an object that was created only 500,000 years after the big bang.". Yet we are farther away from the big bang. Shouldn't it have expanded away from the big bang for the other 12,999,500,000 years? It's hard to explain. I'm sure I'm just confusing myself. Not sure though...




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PostPosted: 03-20-2012 08:51 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


holy shit moron...stfu...




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Ok, so the Milky Way is around 13 billion years old, and we are looking at a galaxy that is only 500,000 old. The astrophysicists say "We are looking at an object that was created only 500,000 years after the big bang.". Yet we are farther away from the big bang. Shouldn't it have expanded away from the big bang for the other 12,999,500,000 years? It's hard to explain. I'm sure I'm just confusing myself. Not sure though...

Inflation. Space can actually travel faster than the speed of light. Because its space, fuck you.

So at the big bang, you have quantum fluctuations that trigger the release of positive, kinetic inflationary energy. That point of space nearly instantly expands by unfathomable amounts (many times the speed of light). Like heat is the byproduct of most releases of energy we know, matter was the byproduct of this energy release. So you get a uniform spread of matter across a huge area (an infinite area with finite time from our perspective, a finite area with infinite time from outside the bubble). After inflation happened, the only force pushing galaxies out is dark energy fighting against gravity.

To answer your question directly, yes the galaxy has been "expanded away from the big bang for the other 12,999,500,000 years". But we can't see that light yet. We can only see the picture that was taken when the light that is just now reaching us, left that galaxy. Imagine watching a football game by having someone mail you a stream of poloroid shots. You'll eventually see the entire game as it happened, but you've got to account for the delay of the postal system. You aren't watching it in real time.




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Xeros, here is the thing... everything is expanding from everything else at same rate. So technically you are the center of the universe and everything in it is expanding away from you. I hope this helps.




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http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect ... nsion.html

Check that out and "The two dimensional analogy". The balloon analogy helped me understand space expansion, even though it isn't a perfect analogy.




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"farther away from the big bang"

oh lawdy




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xer0s wrote:
I can't quite grasp the concept of looking at galaxies and other objects which are at the beginning of their life after the big bang.  So these objects are closer than we are to the origin of the big bang?  How would we be father away and yet not as old as these objects?  It would make sense to me, the farther away from the location of the big bang, the older you would be.  Could you clear this up?


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xer0s wrote:
I can't quite grasp the concept...


So what else is new?




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Digital Nausea
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There you are! :)




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i see dumbos...EVERYWHERE!!!...


Then shut the laundry door.



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xer0s wrote:
There you are! :)


So am I to understand that you made this thread - with the whole forum laughing at your stupidity - just to get me to post in it?

Wow...you really...like..owned me....or sumthin...




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He means you're predictable.

Predictable and slow apparently. Lol...thinking it's about you.




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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
xer0s wrote:
There you are! :)


So am I to understand that you made this thread - with the whole forum laughing at your stupidity - just to get me to post in it?

Wow...you really...like..owned me....or sumthin...


lol, it's all about you...




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xer0s wrote:
lol, it's all about you...


In all fairness you've made threads for me in the past...I was just playing the odds. :p




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PostPosted: 03-21-2012 11:12 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


EtUL wrote:
He means you're predictable.


Well I guess that means everyone is predictable when it comes to trying to answer the questions of morons: we all laugh at them.

EtUL wrote:
Lol...thinking it's about you.


If I were a betting man, I'd bet 100 posts that xer0s did in fact think of me when he pressed the Submit button when creating this tripe...so I doubt I'm actually wrong about this.




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PostPosted: 03-21-2012 11:22 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Why would anyone think otherwise? I just said, it's all about you...




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