Well, clearly everything gets smaller as you go out.
I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.
Submitted 3 days ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 days ago
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Hmm yes, we are all pondering this spherical orb right now.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“A planatir is a dangerous tool, Sarumon”
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Serious question: Do we know how far removed from the exact center of the Big Bang we are? Is that something that be deduced?
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 days ago
“the exact center of the Big Bang” is not a phrase that makes sense.
gazter@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I’m not sure if this answers the question, but it might help.
Everything in space is moving, but it’s not expanding outward from a central point, like an explosion. Instead, the space between the things is getting bigger.
The balloon analogy gets thrown around a lot, but I find it misleading- It’s not about the balloon getting bigger, expanding outward from the center of the sphere. It’s more about the surface of that balloon stretching.
The rubber sheet analogy helps. Scatter a bunch of things on a infinite rubber sheet. Now stretch that in all directions - the things get further apart, but are not moving away from a central point.
Lysergid@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Does it mean space being created out of nothing between things? I’m not good at it but wouldn’t that violate conservation of energy?
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think that’s the point of the webb
anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Is that where the sperm swims to?
Fashim@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Do you mean woo-woo shit or conspiracy shit? Or both?
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Proof that the universe is an egg. Armageddon will come when the Christian God’s sperm comes to fertilize us and we’ll be reborn into Heaven unless climate change aborts us as a foetus
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I mean, isn’t it obvious? Christianity has traditionally believed that Earth is the center of the Universe. Everything in the Universe is moving away from us, as if we are sitting at the very spot where “Let There Be Light” resulted in light being let. Physics has proven that we are at the literal single unique geometric center of the Universe. /s
nop@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fractals all the way down.
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Right outside this lazy summer home
Ain’t got time to call your soul a critic , no
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
HyperRogue is an awesome game!
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 days ago
it’s obviously a cop of coffee that looks like an eye
Uri@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Best explanation
hedge_lord@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Some say that the universe only exists insofar as it is perceived. This is true, but we are not the observers. All of the world is a grand eye and that eye is spread across itself again and again. We are all but figments in the eye of the world, floaters thinking themselves eyes and seeing nothing. This is all to say that the elf on the shelf is REAL and this image PROVES IT!
Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Gaze not into the abyss
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The Great Brown Eye
badbytes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hal, is that you?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I just say it’s the universe version of the homunculus. I think that gets the idea across but only if they’re even slightly educated. 😅
psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
The firmament!
Zink@programming.dev 2 days ago
I’ve seen this image before. This time, however, I am half way through watching The Expanse. I had a much stronger reaction to it this time, for a couple reasons, lol.
steventhedev@lemmy.world 3 days ago
FAKE!
Even children know that the sun isn’t the center of the universe - it’s Earth. Duh!
AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well, it’s showing the moon lit up while it’s behind the earth, so clearly it should all be dark due to the eclipse. So I can only conclude that it’s trying to get the word out that we actually live in a binary solar system.