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How big is the Universe?

Cordoba

Cordoba

Well-Known Member
To feel a glimpse of what Subhan Allah (Glory be to Allah) means, have a look at this link:

[FONT=Arial,Geneva,Verdana,Sans-Serif]How Big is the Universe?[/FONT]

A very interesting 9 minutes film, traveling from our planet at the speed of light satrting January 1st. These are the comments of the film as we move out into space:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BGxRWCmwSDE

- Light would travel for 5 hours and 31 minutes to reach Pluto

- 3.5 billion miles to reach the outer boundaries of our solar system, still on January 1st.

- On April 19 of year 5, we would reach the nearest star to our solar system - Alpha Centauri A

- We have travelled so far 25 trillion miles, and our journey has just begun

- After 10 light years from the sun, the stars in our galaxy appear to converge

- After 100,000 years, the entire spiral of the Milkyway is recognized (that's 100,000 years traveling at the speed of light)

- From here, each point we see is not an individual star but a complete galaxy

- If you add 22 zero after the number 10, that would give the aproximate number of stars in each galaxy !!!

- 5 million years later, the Milkyway seems to be part of the 30 galaxy cluster known as the local group

- 50 million years out, and we encounter the burger cluster containing more than 2,000 galaxies

- We further go deeper into the cosmos as billions of years go past

- After 10 billion years, we see a theoretical view of the universe: Countless billions of galaxies are no more than a micro dot

- It such a spectacular sight, so vast and diverse that the power of its Creator must truly surpass all human understandings

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BGxRWCmwSDE

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[FONT=Arial,Geneva,Verdana,Sans-Serif]All what I can say is Subhan Allah (a billion times)[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial,Geneva,Verdana,Sans-Serif]There is to Him no equivalent[/FONT]

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The Creator of this universe how powerful, creative and extraordinary He would be

What would you say?
 
wednesday

wednesday

Jesus
That is a very interesting concept to grasp, we touched on it in physics. However, if you can prove that the universe has a 'size,' you have yourself a nice nobel piece prize in physics.

If God didn't create this wonder then the 'big bang' must really have been a "big Bang"
 
Cordoba

Cordoba

Well-Known Member
I don't know about a Nobel prize, but the clear belief I have is that God designed and caused the Big Bang to happen

Makes sense .....

And also the universe itself is a small glimpse of how Great the Creator is .....
 
sandy whitelinger

sandy whitelinger

Veteran Member
What will really turn your gourd over is that after a while of traveling at the speed of light in a straight line you might wind up right back where you started.

"There was a young woman named Bright
Who went faster than the speed of light
She left home one day in relative way
And returned the previous night."
 
S

Somkid

Well-Known Member
Keep in mind boundaries and borders are human prescriptions all I can say is space is really big and it keeps getting bigger.
 
Cordoba

Cordoba

Well-Known Member
Indeed, we live in a huge expanding universe

As mentioned by The Creator

(And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander)

(The Qur'an, 51:47)
 
wednesday

wednesday

Jesus
Cordoba said:
Indeed, we live in a huge expanding universe

As mentioned by The Creator

(And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander)

(The Qur'an, 51:47)
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Scientifically, it is impossible to know the extent of the universe. The further we look into space is relative to the technology we have to do such a thing (which i must say is phenomenal).

Penguino - im pretty sure that is based on a computer generated mathematical equation, i guess we'll find out how accurate it was in a couple of billion years wont we :)
 
Cordoba

Cordoba

Well-Known Member
Yes, we may never know how big the universe really is, despite the advanced technology of today.

All what we see in the universe at the moment is the position of galaxies, stars and planets a long time ago, as it takes millions or billions of years for light to reach us from the distant areas of the universe

But thinking about it is good food for thought ...
 
Francine

Francine

Well-Known Member
Cordoba said:
All what we see in the universe at the moment is the position of galaxies, stars and planets a long time ago, as it takes millions or billions of years for light to reach us from the distant areas of the universe
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Yes, but since it is not possible to obtain light from further than a certain point, we cannot say there is a universe beyond that point. All we can say is that there is a universe up to that point, because we have evidence of it in the form of light. We might speculate that there are always more galaxies, but until we gather evidence, we can only speculate. So, for right now, the universe is as big in light-years as the age of the oldest light.
 
Smoke

Smoke

Done here.
As archy the cockroach says:
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans serif]the men of science are talking
about the size and shape of the universe again
i thought i had settled that for them
years ago it is as big as you think it is
and it is spherical in shape
can you prove it isn't
it is round like a ball or an orange
providence made it that shape
so it would roll when he kicked it
and if you ask me how i know this
the answer is that that is just what
i would do myself[/FONT]​
 
Cordoba

Cordoba

Well-Known Member
Francine said:
That was before the Hipparcos satellite gave us parallax radial measurements more accurate than any earthbound measurements had previously achieved.
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Even if the measurements are more accurate, what we see in the sky is a historical picture of the universe, not the real position of the stars today

If light takes a billion years from a distant star to reach the earth, what we see today is the position of that star a billion years ago, not its real position now

It may not even exist any more .....
 
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