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ilovepiano

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Didn't see that link before, but I've heard about that quantum tunneling before. That's some crazy shit that is.

Yeah, a billion light years of nothing. It's kind of hard to get your head around distances like that.

Just worked it out - assuming that the billion is a US billion, which seems to be common place these days much to my disgust. What ever happened to the English billion? :confused:

Anyways, lol, 1 billion light years is 5,849,625,600,000,000,000,000 miles.



Or to put it some other ways, since I have nothing better to do with my time on a friday night:

234,905,854,951,409,525 times round the Earth

to the sun and back 30,466,800,000,000 times

to Pluto and back 799,129,180,328 times

the same distance the Earth will travel through space in it's orbit around the sun during the next 9,749,376,000,000 years

:fekked: :cops:
 

Biskit

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sounds pretty logical to me. :) Why wouldnt there be a black nothing there??

Maybe in a billion years OUR universe might of expanded into it, or our we gonna reach our expansion limit n do the opposite soon n fold back on our selves - aggghhhh
 

ilovepiano

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sounds pretty logical to me. :) Why wouldnt there be a black nothing there?

Well if you go with the idea of a Big Bang, then all matter should be pretty evenly distributed throughout the universe, in every direction. Obviously chunks of it clumped together to form stars, planets and galaxys, but it's all spread out pretty evenly.

Imagine travelling for a billion light years and not seeing anything! It's mad! :eek: :crazy:
 
Mad as fook!!!!

Thing is though, it might not even be there now. The void is between 6 and 10 billion light years away, so if you could see it, then you are looking at something 10 billion years ago!! Anything could have happened since then.

When you see a proper shooting star it could be a million light years away so your actually watching history!!!!

I feel funny
 

Inchigh

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its simple, in the billionth of a second as a scale the big bang encountered, a submissional force of matter exloded, thus causing post detination. which gives rise to a gapeing hole in the stars we see.

what caused it, i dunno. but the realms of life do come from these quesions and answers.
 

ilovepiano

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When you see a proper shooting star it could be a million light years away so your actually watching history!!!!



Na mate, shooting stars are mostly little specks of shit falling through the Earth's atmosphere. They usually burn up, which is when you see them streaking across the sky, but sometimes they might be big enough to survive and hit the surface.

Know what you mean though, about seeing things as they were millions of years ago. It's ace! :thumbsup: