Posted on 12/31/2023 1:54:12 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: How did we get here? Click play, sit back, and watch. A computer simulation of the evolution of the universe provides insight into how galaxies formed and perspectives into humanity's place in the universe. The Illustris project exhausted 20 million CPU hours in 2014 following 12 billion resolution elements spanning a cube 35 million light years on a side as it evolved over 13 billion years. The simulation tracks matter into the formation of a wide variety of galaxy types. As the virtual universe evolves, some of the matter expanding with the universe soon gravitationally condenses to form filaments, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies. The featured video takes the perspective of a virtual camera circling part of this changing universe, first showing the evolution of dark matter, then hydrogen gas coded by temperature (0:45), then heavy elements such as helium and carbon (1:30), and then back to dark matter (2:07). On the lower left the time since the Big Bang is listed, while on the lower right the type of matter being shown is listed. Explosions (0:50) depict galaxy-center supermassive black holes expelling bubbles of hot gas. Interesting discrepancies between Illustris and the real universe have been studied, including why the simulation produced an overabundance of old stars.
Today's image is a video at the link
Shouldn’t the caption read “observable” universe? Scientists are arrogant in what they proudly assert as “peer reviewed facts”. So now is a good time to bring up how old the universe is, too.
Ex nihilo, out of nothing. Classical physics doesn’t allow that, but there is so much we don’t understand about quantum physics, which is like the tiniest building blocks that make up classical physics. There, something comes from nothing all the time in the empty space that exists everywhere, and returns to nothing again almost instantaneously. But in a rapidly expanding universe, it may be possible for these fluctuations to become permanent if the expansion is fast enough. This, to some, explains all the matter and energy in the universe. But what created the physics for this to even be possible? That is what science may never be able to explain. It is more fundamental than matter and energy, or even space and time. What allows for anything to exist at all? No one can tell you it isn’t God, because it is far beyond our ability to know.
Deut. 29:29
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
I’ll have my simulant look at this later.
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