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- hakkola, on 11/09/2009, -0/+24800 million, not billion.
- digggggggggg, on 11/09/2009, -0/+10Even the actual article got it wrong.
- aaabbbsss, on 11/09/2009, -1/+11How many times are we going to have to see this on Digg's front page before we all join hands across the world?
- PeaceShot, on 11/09/2009, -0/+8Mind = blown. The last few seconds of the video showing the 3-D render was just unbelievable.
I wonder if it's possible to have an interactive 3-D of this? - KrayzieKyd, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7No, not really.
- JoeNaguib, on 11/09/2009, -7/+14You know what's more irritating than a pretentious creationist?
A arrogant Darwinist. - TrevorBelmont, on 11/09/2009, -3/+9Inb4 Christ.
- ebcreasoner, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6Shouldn't the real question be... 3D video?
- publiclurker, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6What's a few zeros between friends anyway?
- Mnementh2230, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4"There never was a big bang theory"
there's a theory, and it's supported by the fact that the universe is several billion light years across, and yet we can see the light from stars several billion light years away. We can measure (using Doppler light shifts) whether those distant stars are going away from us or towards us - they are. Therefore, we can see that the universe is indeed expanding, which lead us to Big Bang theory.
Once again, your ignorance of the evidence comes to bite you in the ass. - drex8, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4Take it easy.
- Disgod, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4hcharger, do you know what the cosmic microwave background is? Have you ever studied it? Do you know how the Doppler effect works with light and its consequences on the frequency of light? Have you ever studied the relative amounts of the elements(i.e. hydrogen, helium, lithium, etc) in the Universe? Have you ever done any sort of research at all into what the scientists have to say about the big bang? Have you ever researched into radioactive decay rates? Have you ever done any research into what the galaxies look like as we look deeper and deeper into space? Have you ever done any research into how we measure the distances of objects into the Universe? Have you ever actually done any research at all into the big bang? Or is the bible your only source for your OPINION about the big bang?
- drex8, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3Where did they get the 800 billion fiugre from? Astronomers suggest (with the rate the Unvierse is expading) that within 200 billion years, the Universe will end up in a Big Rip. Where every atomic and subatomic particle will rip apart. The Universe as its known wil cease to exist by then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
Or there's the Big Crunch theoyr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch - O8SERVER, on 11/09/2009, -2/+5OR
Flying Spaghetti Monster did it - ApokalypseNow, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3We can see light from other stars, stars in excess of 6000 light years away. We have observed supernovae from stars over 6000 light years away. This means that we have observed events that happened over 6000 years ago. If you are going to say that we are observing light from those distant bodies that was made in-place with the rest of the universe over 6000 years ago, then what we are seeing are EVENTS THAT NEVER HAPPENED. So, either the universe is older than 6000 years, or your god is lying to us. Which is it?
- Mnementh2230, on 11/15/2009, -0/+3And yet he has a very valid point...
- deadpoetic333, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3That was a huge let down... I was really hoping on some theory with some extensive math calculations done to put together the faintest picture of what the universe may look like that far in the future. Instead I got something I've seen more then once.
- sivyr, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3@Mnementh
I always just figured God put all those photons we're receiving from deep space right now in place so they'd take 6000 light years to get to us, and arrayed them specifically so that we'd be able to make out strange objects behaving in unusual ways. That way, we'd look up into the sky and it would be like another test of our faith. Just like the fossil record.
When you're the bouncer to the best joint on this side of the celestial spheres, you've gotta make sure only the creme of the crop make it in. The ones who ignore EVERYTHING. - Mnementh2230, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3I've always loved this conundrum...
- ostracize, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2And where does it end? Then, everyone’s doin’ it. It’s like the wave at ball games. Air quotes. The phrase, "Don’t go there." - Someone’s gotta take a stand!
- Atario, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Repeat. But awesome, thus dugg.
- MercenarySlick, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2The universe is so huge, having expanded faster than the speed of light after the big bang, that it takes light so long to reach us that we can almost see the beginning of the big gang.
When you look at the night sky you're looking millions or billions of years into the past. You're seeing the universe as it was, not as it currently is. Incredible. - tfb662, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2The narrator states that some galaxies are speeding away faster than the speed of light. How can this be? Isn't the expansion of space time also limited to that ultimate barrier?
- nemomarlin, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2this is off topic,
how do i become an astronomer? And who is hiring them? How is the pay? - alejandr013, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1No, that barrier applies to the speed of information basically. No information or energy is traveling faster than the speed of light so superluminal phenomena are still allowed in some sense, for example the group velocity in wave phenomena can move faster than the speed of light, but superluminal motion is not violating causality in any of these cases.
- tubeguy, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1"In a universe that does expand, all of the distance covered by the photon gets increased by a scale factor equal to the rate of expansion of the universe." Forgot to mention the rate of expansion is increasing.
- wadester2489, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1fri000000000ends
see how awkward that is? - firebhaal, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Second article this week...
- geoffderuiter, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1We are Nothing in this Universe, and that is humbling and beautiful.
- kayaman132, on 11/09/2009, -1/+2I feel so... at peace with the universe.
- solarplexus7, on 11/09/2009, -2/+3i didnt think i needed an /s
- topsuplstore, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1I wonder if people realize that the Big Bang is THEORY. I am going to state a new theory named the BOOM CRASH theory.
- upick, on 11/09/2009, -1/+2Rectified!
- kapauh, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Whenever I read about the vast enormity of the universe, I feel hollow and insignificant. =/
- KrayzieKyd, on 11/09/2009, -1/+2What friends?
- askantik, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1The narrator is so epic!!! And for good reason:
47 billion light years.... O_O
1 lightyear = 5.87849981 × 10^12 miles
47 billion light years = 2.76289491 × 10^23 miles. For the scientific notation impaired, that's 276,289,491,000,000,032,480,976 miles or 444,644,835,000,000,000,712,016 km or (1.10953116 × 10^19)(the circumference of the Earth). - askantik, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Not me. I feel ***** awesome. ***** gives me goosebumps.
- kaosethema, on 11/09/2009, -1/+1awesome!
- JoeNaguib, on 11/09/2009, -2/+2Where have I seen this before?
Oh yeah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rJVZuwMzno&fea ...
Windows 95. - alejandr013, on 11/09/2009, -2/+1I discussed the science of the HUDF in a blog post months ago: "http://theastronomist.blogspot.com/2009/08/hubble- ...
But of course what would I know because I was considering the universe some 800 million years after the big bang, not 800 billion. I also already submitted this to digg months ago:
http://digg.com/space/The_Astronomist_Hubble_Ultra ... - hcharger, on 11/15/2009, -4/+0 Can you see if this AiR1890 character gained any form of authority how dangerous he would be. This guy must be foaming at the mouth by now!
- CocaCola88, on 11/09/2009, -5/+1[Citation Needed]
- solarplexus7, on 11/09/2009, -7/+3OR
God did it - hcharger, on 11/15/2009, -5/+0 There never was a big bang theory. The entire universe and the planets along with every living matter on earth including human's was created by Jehovah God.
- AiR1890, on 11/09/2009, -15/+6Where are all the pissed of creationists at on here, they'll probably start commenting soon, which is funny, because they'll comment about evolution, or Darwin. Which has nothing at all to do with the Big Bang Theory, it is a completely different subject. Stupid creationists, I also love how they say that evolution is only a theory, so it isn't proven fact. What they do not know is that theory in science is completely different than what they think theory means. Scientific Theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena. I saw that anti atheist billboard the other day, atheists believe everything came from nothing, wrong, that is what you creationists believe, you believe god made everything from ***** nothing, the earth, water, light, all that.
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