Yerman
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Totally awesome, makes you realise when compared to the universe just how incredibly small a golf hole is. 
Just.... WOW
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vkurup
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So many galaxies.. mean so many more golf courses to play before I die...
One Planer
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I don't profess to have all the answers :smirk:
I leave that to people in white coats, with lots of pens in the chest pocket.
This is probably moving into the realms of quantum mechanics and I'm not clever enough for that.
Going back to Einsteins theory. Time passes at different rates depending on ones speed relative to the speed of light. To answer your question, it's all relative
If you traveled at the speed of light, time would stand still, frozen in time. As you start to slow down, time would begin moving again. The tricky part here is, as you leave the speed of light where time is frozen, when you start to slow down, time begins to move forward again and the slower you get from the speed of light, the more time itself begins to move faster. When you move faster, closer to the speed light, time itself passes slower. When you move slower, away from the speed of light, time itself passes quicker.
I leave that to people in white coats, with lots of pens in the chest pocket.
This is probably moving into the realms of quantum mechanics and I'm not clever enough for that.
Going back to Einsteins theory. Time passes at different rates depending on ones speed relative to the speed of light. To answer your question, it's all relative
If you traveled at the speed of light, time would stand still, frozen in time. As you start to slow down, time would begin moving again. The tricky part here is, as you leave the speed of light where time is frozen, when you start to slow down, time begins to move forward again and the slower you get from the speed of light, the more time itself begins to move faster. When you move faster, closer to the speed light, time itself passes slower. When you move slower, away from the speed of light, time itself passes quicker.
Totally the wrong attitude on the golf course!Totally awesome, makes you realise when compared to the universe just how incredibly small a golf hole is.
You should be looking from the sub atomic perspective and how incredibly huge the hole is.
It's the concept of infinity that bamboozles me.
JustOne
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When I was at school I did try asking my physics teacher but all she said was "Do you fancy a shag and a trip to France?"
Imurg
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Ah but you see Time is an illusion, Lunchtime doubly-so, mainly caused by lack of alcohol.....
One Planer
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On a slightly different note.
One of my favorite pictures, taken by HUbble , is of a small section of the Eagle nebula, a section dubbed "The Pillars of Creation"
At 7000 lightyears away (or 7000 x 6 billion miles) I find it staggering we can even see it, let alone in such detail!!
Another of my favorites is the Crab nebula.
What gets me is just how big this is! It's 11 light years accross, or 66 billion miles.
Size on a truly galactic scale!!!!
One of my favorite pictures, taken by HUbble , is of a small section of the Eagle nebula, a section dubbed "The Pillars of Creation"
At 7000 lightyears away (or 7000 x 6 billion miles) I find it staggering we can even see it, let alone in such detail!!
Another of my favorites is the Crab nebula.
What gets me is just how big this is! It's 11 light years accross, or 66 billion miles.
Size on a truly galactic scale!!!!
cookelad
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I don't see how someone could be gone for a year and then come back again but be (for example) 1000yrs into the future, if that is so, and travelling at the speed of light does funny things to time, then how can we determine that light from the Sun takes 8 minutes to reach us? maybe it takes 20,000yrs or 1 millisecond? How can we say that light from the center of the universe takes 13.2 billion years and we are looking back in time when in fact it might be 20 million years into the future
I think they probably used a bushnell! pointed at the sun pressed the button 16 seconds later they got a reading!
(WARNING! As the bushnell scope is magnified do not use it to look at the sun leave that to the scientists!)
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vkurup
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On a slightly different note.
One of my favorite pictures, taken by HUbble , is of a small section of the Eagle nebula, a section dubbed "The Pillars of Creation"
At 7000 lightyears away (or 7000 x 6 billion miles) I find it staggering we can even see it, let alone in such detail!!
For a min I thought it was the advt for 'Compare the Meerkats'...
USER1999
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How does all of this fit inside the ping pong ball?
JustOne
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Don't want to scare you mate but light travels at 5.8 TRILLION miles per year so it's about 64 TRILLION MILES across, even so you could still probably get across it faster than going around the M25
One Planer
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Don't want to scare you mate but light travels at 5.8 TRILLION miles per year so it's about 64 TRILLION MILES across, even so you could still probably get across it faster than going around the M25
I guess working out the speed mentally, without a calculator didn't work.
I'm glad I don't do my own wages
Adi2Dassler
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My son loves all this.The best way I found to explain to him the massiveness of all this was to show him one grain of sand and think about all the grains of sand in the world, put them all together and there is more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on the earth....and that's stars, not planets!
JustOne
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Yeh, it's fascinating.
On the grain of sand thing, if you think of our Earth as a grain of sand then our Sun is the size of an orange..... but there's a star out there that is the size of 3 Olympic Stadiums stacked on top of each other (a billion oranges).... that's basically too much matter to even comprehend given that it's just ONE star... of trillions and trillions and trillions in the universe. If that one star exploded it contains enough matter to create more than 1-10 trillion earths! That's at least 10-100 entire Earths for each person on the planet... I could have my own 9 hole course!
...... a vid....... worth a look if you've never seen it
[video=youtube;g4iD-9GSW-0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iD-9GSW-0[/video]
On the grain of sand thing, if you think of our Earth as a grain of sand then our Sun is the size of an orange..... but there's a star out there that is the size of 3 Olympic Stadiums stacked on top of each other (a billion oranges).... that's basically too much matter to even comprehend given that it's just ONE star... of trillions and trillions and trillions in the universe. If that one star exploded it contains enough matter to create more than 1-10 trillion earths! That's at least 10-100 entire Earths for each person on the planet... I could have my own 9 hole course!
...... a vid....... worth a look if you've never seen it
[video=youtube;g4iD-9GSW-0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iD-9GSW-0[/video]
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Adi2Dassler
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That's brilliant, thanks.Will show jnr that tonight.Yeh, it's fascinating.
On the grain of sand thing, if you think of our Earth as a grain of sand then our Sun is the size of an orange..... but there's a star out there that is the size of 3 Olympic Stadiums stacked on top of each other (a billion oranges).... that's basically too much matter to even comprehend given that it's just ONE star... of trillions and trillions and trillions in the universe. If that one star exploded it contains enough matter to create more than 1-10 trillion earths! That's at least 10-100 entire Earths for each person on the planet... I could have my own 9 hole course!
...... a vid....... worth a look if you've never seen it
[video=youtube;g4iD-9GSW-0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iD-9GSW-0[/video]
JustOne
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I asked my 11yr old how many stars in our galaxy and he said "Billions", I asked him how many galaxies he thought there were and he said "....thirty seven?"
Kids! Gotta love 'em!
I just recalculated my (crap) maths...
The star would be 1 million billion times the size of the Earth so if it exploded it would create 1 million billion Earths, shared between the current 7 billion humans would mean we'd get 143,000 Earths EACH enough for an 18 hole course probably
cookelad
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The star would be 1 million billion times the size of the Earth so if it exploded it would create 1 million billion Earths, shared between the current 7 billion humans would mean we'd get 143,000 Earths EACH enough for an 18 hole course probably
I'd probably still keep running into my ex-missus!
One Planer
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I'm just reading a few articles on neutron stars and pulsars at present.
I love anything like that :thup:
I love anything like that :thup:
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