Posted on 11/17/2015 10:55:45 AM PST by Red Badger
Yeah, I know...My jokes are sometimes lame.
this is a much preferred picture, when contrasted with jets of gas from Uranus
Alright, astronomers figure it’s 1.5M light-years wide and 2000M light-years away.
I’m gonna stir some pudding here.
If the universe is, as some contend, about 10,000 years old then the very farthest objects we see can’t be more than 10,000 light-years away (any farther, and the light wouldn’t have time to reach us yet).
Crunch the numbers, based on the angle of view the object covers in the sky (however far away it is).
(1,500,000 / 2,000,000,000) * 10,000 = 7.5
So ... under the “young earth” theory, it’s no more than 7.5 light-years wide. Which means, if it really is blowing material out at near speed of light, the formation we see only took about 4 years to create (time from material ejection to current apparent reach) ... so we should see substantial change, say as newly ejected material emerges and travels to current outer reach, within 4 years (a lot less than that, actually, to at least see some notable change). ...which...we aren’t, haven’t, and won’t.
Thoughts?
I’m figuring the speed of light is too fast, and/or celestial bodies too big, to fit in a universe that (ostensibly) small.
(Applies SPF900)
Cripsy critters..................
Or, a billion years before anything bigger than one cell was living on the earth. Plus or minus a couple of weeks.
Jeez, the universe is unfathomably old, and unfathomably large.
Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather...
I guess if the universe were a mere 10,000 years old that would be true. However, the best estimate today is somewhere around 14.5 billion.
"Those girls didn't order a pizza. Why did the pizza guy just show up? And why did he just..... oh my Goodness!"
You get the idea. ;-)
Particularly, if not essentially!
True....this SBH is actually relatively close at 2 billion light years distant considering that just the “observable” universe is 45 billion light years in any direction.
45 billion? Where did you get that from?
I hear Gemini Croquet is having a contest for a trip to one ...
... So what you’re saying is that all this happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...?
>>the ‘observable’ universe is 45 billion light years in any direction.
Wow! Looks like you’re right. I hadn’t heard that before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Size
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Misconceptions_on_its_size
I have to deal with some “young earth” adherents. I’m thinking thru scenarios & reasoning to refute what they consider obvious and I consider absurd.
Thanks Red Badger, extra to APoD.
Thanks Red Badger, extra to APoD.
God has made some really cool stuff.
ping
Mine was really bad too if you didn’t get my joke. :)
Black holes.... suck.
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