"megastructures" Found In Space

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  1. Joshua Tree

    Joshua Tree Remain In Light

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035gmxp


    (The link is to a BBC audio clip, I don't know if you can get it outside the UK.)
     
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    Borg...
     
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  3. Dude111

    Dude111 An Awesome Dude HipForums Supporter

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    Yes no one really knows whats all in space............

    DOES IT GO ON AND ON FOREVER??
     
  4. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    http://youtu.be/04P8f44clpc​
     
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  5. SpacemanSpiff

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    its a death star
     
  6. Sleeping Caterpillar

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    Oh man, I was hoping for a bit more evidence on this one of what it could be.

    The idea of finding space debris of another species would be mind boggiling.

    I think the "recipes to life" may be found on a plethora of other planets over an infinity amount of time. I just kind of doubt that multiple intelligent species coexisting from different planets in the same time is likely. Earth won't be habitable forever, and perhaps when another species does find us, it'll be too late for us to interact, as we will be nothing but memories of a distant past
     
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  8. Holy shit we're not alone EVERYBODY FREAK OUT!!!!!
     
  9. Justin_Hale

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  10. Moonglow181

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    I feel it does.
    What? there is a wall at the end that says...ok, that is all she wrote....?
    Hard to think so.
     
  11. Tyrsonswood

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    I put that there...
     
  12. Aerianne

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    My 8 yr. old grandson was asking me about that the other day. It's kind of difficult to comprehend.
     
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  14. guerillabedlam

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    I have nothing to base this on except my own speculations but there could be a 'wall' where matter and anti-matter are evenly distributed and completely cancel each other out. It's difficult to conceptualize, but I'm fairly certain there are some formulas regarding structure of our universe and that theoretically, this is how our universe should be. One of the mysteries of cosmology and physics is how the universe has developed such a seemingly disproportionate amount of matter to anti-matter.
     
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  15. Moonglow181

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    That is very interesting, G...maybe it was the "god" particle that upset the balance in the first place....and maybe if both matter and anti matter cancel each other out in this universe, they start all over again in another uninverse.....which is a continuation from this universe.....
     
  16. guerillabedlam

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    I'd probably suspect quantum fluctuations offset the balance initially before the Higgs Boson or any proper particles formed, but I'm not expert on this stuff. Multiverse theories seem like they add a whole other headache to this stuff :D
     
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  17. Moonglow181

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    lol, g, but that is what makes it all so wonderful....it is not a formula to be figured out here....:p
     
  18. Joshua Tree

    Joshua Tree Remain In Light

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    As I understand it, space is finite in the following sense.

    Since the Big Bang, the universe has been expanding, and it is not only expanding but accelerating in its' expansion.

    However, according to Einstein, it is not really space which is expanding, but SPACE-TIME.

    So if you theoretically travelled to the edge of the Space-Time bubble you could not travel past that point,
    but would instead end up travelling along the edge of its' curved outer limit.

    So in that sense space does not "go on forever", although with the constant expansion of Space-Time
    you would never in a practical sense reach its' end.
     
  19. Irminsul

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    I like this thread. =]
     
  20. Irminsul

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    "theoretically". :D gets me every time. :D

    That's one word my daddy said "If anyone uses the word "theoretically" in a sentence, they're full of shit right then and there."

    :D
     
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