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Started by PopeyesPappy, October 13, 2016, 10:51:31 PM

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PopeyesPappy

Some UK group studying Hubble telescope data has calculated there are around 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable universe. That's 10 times more than the previous estimate of 200 billion.
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Hydra009

So basically, it's going to take forever to map it all out.

Jason Harvestdancer

Assuming we had a Tardis, it would still take forever to visit them all.
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Baruch

That throws the Dark Energy calculation into disarray ... good!  Underestimating visible matter is a major cosmological problem then.
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Gawdzilla Sama

"The not-visible universe is to the visible universe as the visible universe is to a marble here on Earth."

Lots of, ahem, space for things we don't yet.
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Baruch

Human ignorance is permanent ... all else is fiddling around with the edges of ignorance.
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Gerard

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There is an event horizon out there. Things that happened or happen beyond the time and space that we can observe in our particular place in space and time. We don't know and can't know what is beyond that. Simply because of the speed of light.

Gerard

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Gerard on October 14, 2016, 05:59:16 PM
There is an event horizon out there. Things that happened or happen beyond the time and space that we can observe in our particular place in space and time. We don't know and can't know what is beyond that. Simply because of the speed of light.

Gerard
In others words, there is 14 billion years of history we can't see yet.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
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Johan

Quote from: PopeyesPappy on October 13, 2016, 10:51:31 PM
Some UK group studying Hubble telescope data has calculated there are around 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable universe. That's 10 times more than the previous estimate of 200 billion.
But.... we're the people god made. And what we do, and how we act, and what we think are of the utmost importance to him.
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Baruch

Quote from: Johan on October 14, 2016, 08:42:03 PM
But.... we're the people god made. And what we do, and how we act, and what we think are of the utmost importance to him.

Early modern man, when he first got a good measurement for how big the solar system is ... started to get your point.  There is a whole lot of nothing out there, and the Earth is tiny.  Until then, the Cosmos was small and tidy.
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Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Johan on October 14, 2016, 08:42:03 PM
But.... we're the people god made. And what we do, and how we act, and what we think are of the utmost importance to him.
And thus there is a center to the universe no matter what that Tyson person says! /cousins
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Blackleaf

Quote from: PopeyesPappy on October 13, 2016, 10:51:31 PM
Some UK group studying Hubble telescope data has calculated there are around 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable universe. That's 10 times more than the previous estimate of 200 billion.

"Observable universe." So there could be many, many more than we can currently observe. And each one has millions of stars. And people still doubt that life could have happened randomly in this freaking massive universe? Christ. I can't even imagine anything that big.
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Baruch

Quote from: Blackleaf on October 15, 2016, 11:02:40 AM
"Observable universe." So there could be many, many more than we can currently observe. And each one has millions of stars. And people still doubt that life could have happened randomly in this freaking massive universe? Christ. I can't even imagine anything that big.

You don't have to.  Astronomy AA ... one planet at a time ;-)
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Atheon

And gawd made it all for us humans. Even the parts we will never observe. Because Jesus.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca

Baruch

Quote from: Atheon on October 15, 2016, 08:49:57 PM
And gawd made it all for us humans. Even the parts we will never observe. Because Jesus.

They lived in simpler times (over 400 years ago) ... some people still do.  But why the hate?
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