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Re:Astronomers discovered 1M new galaxies in just 300 hours by exitb on Sunday January 29, 2023 @11:18AM (#34569481)
I don’t think I’m a dumb person. There’s some complex stuff I can understand, but whenever this comes up, I just can’t wrap my head around the shape of the universe and why is it exactly that the universe started somewhere and now I can look far enough in any direction and see not only that place, but also in the time it happened. Mind boggling.
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Re:Astronomers discovered 1M new galaxies in just 300 hours by icapybara on Sunday January 29, 2023 @11:41AM (#34569801)
It didn't start somewhere. The Big Bang happened at all points in space. It happened "everywhere".
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Re:Astronomers discovered 1M new galaxies in just 300 hours by weard_beard on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:00PM (#34570035)
We’re inside an inflating balloon and the space inside is a giant gobstopper where each layer is spherical movie projector screen we can watch a movie on of different moments in time.

If we’re not literally on the edge of the balloon is someone else looking back in time at us?

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Re:Astronomers discovered 1M new galaxies in just 300 hours by icapybara on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:31PM (#34570392)
That's true except also every other point in space is at the center of its own balloon. The balloon has no edge, the movies just become too dark to see past a certain distance.
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Re:Astronomers discovered 1M new galaxies in just 300 hours by ben_w on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:58PM (#34570722)
Too dark and yet also too bright: the fun combination of a plasma so hot and bright it's opaque being redshifted so hard it's the darkest blackest void anyone has seen.
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