Very cool zoom out of the universe

[Ekim23]

I liked it ...

It's still for me crazy to think the universe ie infinite... I mean there is no end...

I have a headache

 

[Bidude117]

I liked it ...

It's still for me crazy to think the universe ie infinite... I mean there is no end...

I have a headache

My thoughts exactly!

 

[Spiff]

That is the opening of the movie Contact. It was even more awesome watching that on the big screen.

 

[ChickenGuy]

I used to think that the Universe was infinite as well, which made no sense to me, until I realised that it wasn't.

Space, on the massive scale of the Universe, actually wraps and bends around itself, so the size of the Universe is limited to some tens of billions of light-years across.

It's a bit like how the surface of the Earth is. The area of the Earth is a limited space, yet you can go round and round in circles forever. You would be forgiven for once thinking that the Earth was flat and that the land and sea went on and on forever.

So there is a limit to the amount of space there is out there.

 

[Scooter]

Contact was fantastic...Very thought provoking...Shame it was so underrated...

 

[NedNickerson]

It's from the movie "Contact."
I've used it in three of my music videos:

Klaatu - Around the Universe in 80 Days


Klaatu - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft


Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

 

[Telstra]

in the middle of the milky way, it look cloudy.
Is the cloudy look represent stars ?

 

[PabloZed]

The universe does have an end. It's expanding.

We seem so small compared to the grand size of the Universe.

Hmmm, I thought they had learned that in fact the universe was contracting and we were headed for the "Big Crunch."

The universe has to be of a definite albeit incomprehensible size because we know it began by expanding and we knowly roughly how long its been expanding for.

 

[sirsaba]

So then whats after the universe?

 

[Spiff]

I used to think that the Universe was infinite . . .until I realised that it wasn't.

Space, on the massive scale of the Universe, actually wraps and bends around itself, . . .

So there is a limit to the amount of space there is out there.

Oh really? You got the cosmos all figured out, eh?

 

[Triple G]

Wow, Piggy. you made it to the edge of the universe! Are you going to come back to visit us?

That vid is awesome.

 

[star-warrior]

The order of the audio tracks also regresses to an earlier time, and even Hitler's voice is heard.

The speed outwards looks fairly uniform, but, on the scale of the universe itself, the zoom is getting faster and faster to cover the distance over time...

 

[2243]

... The audio tracks were cool. Someone in the comments posted it's not true. Sound waves don't travel that far.

If I remember correctly, sound waves don't travel at all in space, but I've never been there. These aren't sound waves anyway, they're radio waves and apparently they weaken with distance. I don't know how far these radio waves will travel, but I guess it depends on the strength. Voyager 1 is supposed to be over 100 AU from us and I think we still get its signals.

 

[braex27]

That's so pretty. Hmmm. Makes you wonder, what else is out there in the cold reaches of the universe?

 

[theworldwithout]

The current theory is an inevitable Heat Death of the Universe when all kinetic energy has dissipated and all unstable particles have decayed. It will all be cold and dark in about 100 billion years.

Yeah, with the other galaxies disappearing from view leaving only those still shining stars in our own galaxy to see... and they'll be few in number.

Eventually, everything, as you said, cold, about 3K, and dark.

I wouldn't exactly call that the death of the Universe... Of course there will be nothing in it, but the Universe itself could still be there.

There are a few other theories out there (Well, okay, lots lol) :

One is that the universe will continue expanding, eventually causing galaxy clusters, galaxies themselves, star systems, stars, planets (if they still exist at that time) and possibly even space to literally come apart.

Second is that the Universe will also continue it's expansion but eventually slow to the point that after a huge amount of time that time itself could stop, although I have trouble getting myself to believe in this one.

And the last, that I can think of anyway, is that if you're a believer in the Multiple Universe theory, the end could come at any time, for if two universes have different laws of physics collide they could annihilate one another.

 

[star-warrior]

If I remember correctly, sound waves don't travel at all in space, but I've never been there. These aren't sound waves anyway, they're radio waves and apparently they weaken with distance. I don't know how far these radio waves will travel, but I guess it depends on the strength. Voyager 1 is supposed to be over 100 AU from us and I think we still get its signals.

Yes, I agree. Sound waves doesn't travel in a vacuum. It would be the Electromagnetic radiation of radio waves that is being emitted from Earth.

I'd expect some doppler shift as one moves away rather hearing them in real time

 

[NedNickerson]

I think the recordings you hear are supposed to represent the recordings that were placed on the Voyager Golden Record. It was a gold record which contained images and sounds that were selected to portray the diversity of life on Earth. It was created for any intelligent extraterrestrials that find it.

Voyager Golden Record
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

 

[theworldwithout]

NedNickerson, the recordings you hear on the clip are supposed to be are radio transmissions from Earth that the farther you go out the older the transmissions get.

Say you're at the closest star, Alpha Centauri about 4 light years away, you'll be hearing radio broadcasts from Earth that are 4 years old.

 

[Pushyourluck]

Watching that puts into perspective just how tiny and insignificant we all really are.

 

[PabloZed]

Watching that puts into perspective just how tiny and insignificant we all really are.

Quite depends on whether other intelligent life exists. It should given the estimated number of habitable planets, but if it doesn't and we are indeed alone then each one of us is quite significant.