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Looks like proof of the flat earth
Kill me
Everyone sees the butthole too, right?
It's buttholes all the way down.
Well I did see a kiwi slice, but now I may not be able to look at kiwis the same
I see a fucked up eyeball.
MitocondriSol: powerhouse of the cell.
Hmm yes, we are all pondering this spherical orb right now.
"A planatir is a dangerous tool, Sarumon"
Is the radial scale logarithmic? Or is it even more compressed than that?
First thing I will point out is there is no known shape of the universe.
If we assume the hubble constant is the same in all directions, the farthest we'd be able to see would be a sphere, dictated by the time light has had to travel to us.
That's what I'm assuming the original diagram is showing, the "Observable Universe" in some sort of radically increasing scale.
I'll admit, I'm not deep in astronomy but thats inherently misguided. In a 3d space, observing from a fixed point, all areas that extend past how far we can observe would not be the shape of the universe but just our range of "vision."
Thus the term "observable universe". Everything beyond our observable universe is being expanded away from us at faster than the speed of light, so nothing outside will ever reach us. Causality is completely and irrevocably severed at those distances so, arguably, anything outside the observable universe is not part of "our" universe.
This is what the human eye looks like through a microscope, from the perspective of a germ on a microscope slide.
Serious question: Do we know how far removed from the exact center of the Big Bang we are? Is that something that can be deduced?
"the exact center of the Big Bang" is not a phrase that makes sense.
I'm not sure if this answers the question, but it might help.
Everything in space is moving, but it's not expanding outward from a central point, like an explosion. Instead, the space between the things is getting bigger.
The balloon analogy gets thrown around a lot, but I find it misleading- It's not about the balloon getting bigger, expanding outward from the center of the sphere. It's more about the surface of that balloon stretching.
The rubber sheet analogy helps. Scatter a bunch of things on a infinite rubber sheet. Now stretch that in all directions - the things get further apart, but are not moving away from a central point.
I mean, isn't it obvious? Christianity has traditionally believed that Earth is the center of the Universe. Everything in the Universe is moving away from us, as if we are sitting at the very spot where "Let There Be Light" resulted in light being let. Physics has proven that we are at the literal single unique geometric center of the Universe. /s
Do you mean woo-woo shit or conspiracy shit? Or both?
Yes
Proof that the universe is an egg. Armageddon will come when the Christian God's sperm comes to fertilize us and we'll be reborn into Heaven unless climate change aborts us as a foetus
Gaze not into the abyss
The Great Brown Eye