The Design of the Universe

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:48 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c64Aia4XE1Y

Tural wrote:Tural: Any controversy will have this thread locked

Also, this thread is not a Big Bang vs. Creationism thread, nor is the video. The video is simply a computer program that recreated the Universe and all of it's galaxies, and they fly through them. They also explain how far away everything is, and when you take a picture of the moon, it's what was happening 2 seconds ago, sun is 8 minutes ago, etc. etc. It's pretty cool.

CptnNsan0 · Post by **CptnNsan0** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:31 am

woah. that really makes you think about how it all came to be. I still dont understand that wall of galaxies though.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:36 am

I too think I missed something about the wall there. Their simulations were nice and robust, though.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:48 am

That was pretty incredible. I can't wait to see what that new telescope can do.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:00 pm

Cool!

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:12 pm

My PC can run those simulations on High with 4x AA.

Seriously though, the Universe is so big... I think it's a waste of time and resources researching it. They should just focus on something (still massive and explorable) like our galaxy.

Cobain · Post by **Cobain** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:37 pm

this is quite amazing.

Geo wrote:My PC can run those simulations on High with 4x AA.

Seriously though, the Universe is so big... I think it's a waste of time and resources researching it. They should just focus on something (still massive and explorable) like our galaxy.

an agreeable suggestion.

im sure we don't even know 1/1000000000000 of the information available in our solar system,

Jean-Luc · Post by **Jean-Luc** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:08 pm

Cobain wrote:im sure we don't even know 1/1000000000000 of the information available in our Solar System,

Fixed

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:43 pm

This has motivated me to post my star simulation program.

http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?p=829284

Xeno2 · Post by **Xeno2** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:31 am

Geo wrote:My PC can run those simulations on High with 4x AA.

Seriously though, the Universe is so big... I think it's a waste of time and resources researching it. They should just focus on something (still massive and explorable) like our galaxy.

In order to understand the galaxy we live in, i would guess you need to see how the rest of the universe behaves because its like asking whats the weather in australia when you live in alaska.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:48 pm

Eh, that's not really that good of a comparison but I guess it works. Except, it's like being on Pluto and asking what the weather in Georgia is like.

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:32 pm

You should check this out. Its a little long but very cool.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension.
Part 1
Part 2

WaeV · Post by **WaeV** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:42 pm

I posted that in another topic a couple months back, but yeah, very cool.

CptnNsan0 · Post by **CptnNsan0** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:48 am

that confuses the hell out of me