Star Sights and Websites

Astronomy anyone?

Guessing this pic came from Chandra, but I'm not sure.
abri

 

My comp background is various images from Hubble that I rotate through. Very cool stuff.

Right now it is the Orion Nebula. I think I need a new one after I finish up this current project though.

 

Cool!

 

I know what you are talking about, but it still sounds good that we are the geeks and wallflowers at the big dance of life.

There is also a theory that the radation levels at the interior would be too high to allow 'higher' life forms to develop.

 

Not really. If you look at the star clusters around the center as the electron cloud the distribution is all wrong. The Milky Way is a flat disk with a center bulge. Even the smallest atoms have spherical electron clouds.

EDIT: Here is a cool site that explains electron cloud and energy states better than I can.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/elements_as_atoms/orbitals.html

 

I thought about enough to reply. Thus you succeeded.

 

I hate remarking without my links in hand, but perhaps I will stumble upon it in the dark. (just give me the flashlight) There's a fabulous article out about the history of the galaxies and how they are changing shapes as they evolve. I will try to find it.
abri

 

That is pretty neat.

I withdraw some of my earlier remark. But with millions of galaxies to choose from, chance is bound to favor one of them looking like something.

 

God, I hope not, in my case anyway.

I don't need any more of my body rebelling against me than already is.

 

yes, and what would happen to it if there were and you took a bath? the great flood?
lol
abri
(nice websites, btw)
oh, and do you think the shapes might be similar because they are being created by similar designing forces, albeit in different dimensions (small/large)


ooooooooo .. and this! cool!
http://www.astro.washington.edu/balick/WFPC2/

 

I seem to like this style.

 

<runs back to get a bigger flashlight>

 

http://hubblesite.org/

That is where I get most of my stuff.

 

shes thinking lol

I'v got a disaster drama taped that was on earlier tonight the perfect solar storm,if I recall what would happen to the earth if the sun ejected the equivalent of the earths weight in charged particles in one pulse sounds like alot but 1.3 milllion earths could fit inside the sun

Get your suncream out!

 

I love the fact we have a creator,pictures dont lie

 

So there's no middle of the universe ... or is it everywhere? A hard one to fathom:

Try this exercise ...

http://www.exploratorium.edu/hubble/tools/center.html

abri

 

Interesting link. I've always been mind-boggled by trying to imagine the size of the universe . . . not just the matter in it, but the void itself. It is something that can have no finite size - it must be infinite, and continue on forever (but in this context does "forever" have any meaning. How long has this infinite void existed, after all? Forever?) . . .

I think I need to lay down . . .

 

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/centre.html

If the universe began with a big bang (which probably wasn't a sideways one like the one at Mt. St. Helens), and if the law of inertia tells us that matter continues in the direction it's going in, unless acted upon by an outside force, and if observation tells us the universe is expanding, but not from a point of big bang but from every point, the obvious inconsistencies in this explanation must lie in the explanation itself. Can anyone explain this to me?

<wonders vaguely... if her body is expanding at the same rate as the rest of the universe, then how come the jeans are not expanding at the same rate?>

<g>
abri

 

Must be the gravitational constant <duck, cover>

Try this analogy, where is the center of the surface of the earth. Taint any, the center is in the 3rd dimension, but someone who didn't understand gravity and the shape of the planet would swear we were 2 dimensional (mostly).

We're not even close to the answers yet. You gotta love it.

 

It is only slightly less painful if you don't imagine the "void" with size. The "void" has no size or shape - it is a language construct to try to represent the concept of "non existance"; nothingness. The nearest our minds can come to understanding this construct, is to imagine the size of a one-dimensional mathematical point. Once you're comfortable with the existance of that, you may be able to venture a bit further into "non-existance". Our brains usually betray us, however. We want to equate the void with space. As in space=void. However, space=does exist; void=does not exist. The majority of physicists, currently view "matter/energy" as the progenitor of "space". Without matter or energy, space does not exist ===> hence the mental construct of "the void". We talk of the "edge of the universe" as if there is a boundary between existance and the void. Well, no such boundary exists. There is only the universe and nothing more. The universe does not exist, "inside" the void -- the universe is both the inside and the outside and our solar system is at the centre. Actually, every other point in space, is also at the centre of the universe. So, Natakel, you are correct. This is as mind boggling as the human mind can stand. Beyond this point, lies insanity.
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Are you talking about nihilism?
abri