Wonders of the Universe

Kaise

the bit that blows my mind is when he starts talking in numbers i cant comprehend

Our solar system has travelled 1/10th or 0.01% around the centre of our galaxy, like seriously wtf!

and then billiob, million, billion, trillion stars - right thats it, my brain was hanging out through my eyes!

i think he would be a great teacher for kids and as he gets older i think he will turn in to the tweed jacket with elbow patches we come to expect from men of such intelligence!

I bet he read "In search of Schroedingers cat" as a bed time story!

spongtastic

The whole thing has one of my friends crying into his pint complaining about over simplified 'x-factor physics'. The entropy explanation has p*ssed him off as it's incorrect.

thekickingmule

I loved the bit where he shows the picture of Earth, taken by the satelite that's now 'vanished'. A tiny blue dot in the distance. To think that from the other planets, Saturn etc. that's what we look like! It makes me feel so feckin small, I love that feeling. Incidentally, so does your Mum.

Anonymous

kaiser83 wrote:

the bit that blows my mind is when he starts talking in numbers i cant comprehend

Our solar system has travelled 1/10th or 0.01% around the centre of our galaxy, like seriously wtf!

I reckon it would be quite easy to talk about numbers you can't comprehend. Anything above potato may stump you.

It was a little simplified, and I'm also a little bemused. Is the theory of the universe just fading into darkness the only commonly held one now then? Last time I read about it (which is a while ago), that was only one of three possible outcomes.

thekickingmule

The bit I 'didnt agree with'* was that the universe will eventually end up with nothing, including no atoms.
What I believed (and like to think will happen) is that eventually, everything will be broken up into tiny, tiny bits (atoms completley blown apart) and they'll be floating round, minding their own business. Then a couple will stick together, and a couple more, and then lots more, and before you know it, they create some form of object, which is constantly getting bigger, until BANG, the cycle happens again.

The reason I think this, is that they said the Big Bang happened because of gasses that were in space ended up exploding/imploding. Well where did these gasses come from? Possibly an ancient universe?


*I'm no expert, therefore I mean I'm sure I heard elswhere...

Anonymous

The theory is (I believe - I haven't studied this stuff at all really) is that at a certain point, the motion of individual particles away from each other overcomes any gravitational force to attract them together.
BUT, I find the explanation that bits would start clumping, and clumping and clumping to form one hypermassive black hole, re-starting the big bang more plausible from a non expert perspective. Either that, or that once we're left with just black holes, they will inevitably draw towards each other, until they reach a critical mass, then KABOOOOM

spongtastic

There's so many theories that nobody can say what will/won't happen. The whole programme ignored string, dimensional, dark matter, primary matter theory etc, etc ad nausium. Good for the self informed daily fail and grandad readers though.

Apparently statistics state we're over 36000 years overdue for a NEE. So who give a flying anyway?

thekickingmule

NEE!

Anonymous

spongtastic wrote:

There's so many theories that nobody can say what will/won't happen. The whole programme ignored string, dimensional, dark matter, primary matter theory etc, etc ad nausium. Good for the self informed daily fail and grandad readers though.

What has any of that got to do with a nice simple explanation of entropy and disorder?

singlespeedexplosif

It's all shit, really, but he's a good bloke and likes a curry at the Mitali, so I can't really complain.