Chapter 5: The Scale of Things

Clips:
The Elegant Universe
NASA
ESA
Amazing Time Lapse Aging - neuroshment

Images:
Hubble/ESA

Music:
Glacier Descent - Arve Henriksen

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• science
• galaxy
• star
• sun
• milky
• way
• size
• scale
• age
• supernova

[Atheistx82]

Hey I saw an Imax Video when I was young, where it went from Atoms to Galaxies zooming out the scale by a magnitude of ten each time. Do you know what that video is called or where to find it?

[UppruniTegundanna]

@Atheistx82 Yeah, It's called Powers of Ten by Charles Eames. Not sure where to fund it though, although I'm sure some digging will bring it up.

[jesuskopp]

Do most people know that is was a catholic priest that came up with the theory of the "big bang"

His name was Lamantra

[UppruniTegundanna]

Georges Lemaître

[Epicis]

Thats why we rely on the guys who spend their whole lifes in the subjects contributing what they can to the greater cause of knowledge. They don't expect everyone to understand how they came across their findings (that have been put through plenty of cross-examination and tests), but when they're right, you sorta have to trust the professionals

Not the guys collecting hand-outs at churches claiming they know it all.

[DamnReligion]

This video is SEVERELY "unwatched"...if I may say so....

[quzishen]

@Atheistx82 type in powers of ten in youtube to find it

[barsanted]

I just have one thing to say about this video...

It's fucking great! Awesome data, fabulous music and background!

Great job!

[2010ksaul]

@SulcZp believing in something that has no imperical supporting evidence (i.e. an infinite universe) shure sounds like faith to me.... or do you just know in a metaphisical gnostic kinda way? That is a good question though, IS God a product of our imagination? If the God of the bible is real, than we would expect to see evidence of a finite universe that had a beginning, and maybe evidence of design/order throughout the universe, and curiously enough we do.. or it just appears that way?

[SulcZp]

@2010ksaul and i agree with most of this. but i promise you i'm not of faith...but we do seem to keep finding smaller and smaller particles. when will it ever end! :/ but in other news...im all for hypothesis and logic but is religion not a product of our "little imaginations" as you put it? you claim to be of faith so jw. but anyway yes i am familiar with the concept of the expanding universe and its corresponding increasing rate there of....but if its finite..wheres all the matter going?

[2010ksaul]

@SulcZp Lizard?? first off, asserting that the universe is"infinite",sounds like a faith based statement to me... faith in the great Incomprehencable Nothing that is sooo far beyond all physics, logic, or reason, that we should just follow our little imaginations wherever they might lead; second you should lookup the word "redshift" as it pertains to our universe's "finite" begining (and it does not line up with the rebounding theory either), question every hypothosis but dont ignore logic.

[SulcZp]

To humans, everything must have a beginning and an end. But, what if this was not the case, and we just couldnt comprehend it yet? If you really want to know what comes after death....just imagine your consciousness before you were conceived. That's right..you can't..our consciousness waxed into existence and it will wane out the same way..As the universe remains eternal and infinite.

[SulcZp]

@2010ksaul and as far as the big bang...that is just creation in disguise..The universe is infinite. Even if there was a big bang, it was just a continuation. It was a continuation in the same sense of a huge star exploding then coming back together again to form a new star (or black hole depending on the situation). Can a lizard comprehend language or ponder the thoughts of others? Can it wonder? imagine? I believe we can not yet comprehend all that the universe is.

[SulcZp]

@2010ksaul any other intelligent being that managed to evolve somewhere else in the universe would ask the same questions..they would also think that they too, were alone, upon not being able to navigate past the vast distances and not comprehending the incomprehensible scales of time. Thus leading them to the conclusion that they must have a "purpose" or "reason" for existence. The fact is, that we don't..the only difference between us and the dinosaurs is that we are merely smarter.

[2010ksaul]

alright, so lets add some philosophy to all this cosmological conjecture... let us consider the "causality" or the law of cuase and effect... at that point where "our knowedge stops" directly after the big bang, where do we go from there? did nothing really explode? for no reason? with no cause? and then evetually give birth to reason and order?? ....just a few questions froman ex-atheist:) keep the faith.

[ChrisKnightProgram]

@UppruniTegundanna

allthingsscience . com/video/42/Powers-of-Ten