The universe is 13.7 billion years old

[Kire]

yup.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2...ion-years-old/

[sleepywolf]

Re: The universe is 13.7 years old

Um, according to that link, don't you mean it's 13.7 billion years old?

[Kire]

Re: The universe is 13.7 years old

oops.

[JPS]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

So the universe is flat huh?

Interesting

[Kire]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

Yes, the Big Bang must've been one of those George Lucas Deathstar ring explosions.

[Wavelength]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

"That's some bad astonomy blog, Harry."

This is very cool stuff, but I'm left a bit befuddled by the concept of a "flat universe." Isn't curvilinear timespace a mostly-accepted scientific theory which most of our ideas about gravity and time "distortion" are based on?

I feel like I don't quite know enough to even start asking the right questions here. Can someone shed a bit of light on this for me?

[JPS]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

I cant shed some light but it seems what you read in that link is 100% fact, the universe is flat

[sleepywolf]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

I cant shed some light but it seems what you read in that link is 100% fact, the universe is flat

And we all know if you read information online dealing with science that confuses you, then it must be true!

[ChaosKnightXD]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

Does this mean I'm actually 2D?

[Stormy]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

When they say flat, i'm pretty sure they mean flat like our solar system, or our galaxy. Oddly enough nearly all collections of stellar bodies settle into a disk shape.

Whether or not my above assumption is true, I don't know. I shall now read the article to discover it it is.

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Okay, I've read it. When they say the Geometry of the Universe is flat, they mean it is infinite. Basically it means that 'Asteroids' view of the universe is a lie.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

i doubt the universe is flat, i think it only appears that way due to the vast amount of distance we are from everything. how can you gauge the distance and location of stars if it takes millions of years to get the image of exactly where it was?

also doesnt explain why we see stars from every point on the earth, and doesnt explain meteors, black holes, or any of the other cosmic crap out there that doesnt support the flat universe theory.

[Stormy]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

Your confused Karr. The fabric of space time is (relatively) flat, meaning that you can't hop into your uber-fast spaceship and fly in one direction and end up where you started after a million years, which is what would happen if the universe was spherical.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

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so its infinite in every direction then? i dont understand that saddle one at all, seems like a sphere/flat hybrid. i dont see how its even possible to measure a universe we have not even began to fathom the depths of.

just look to the early times of humanity where we thought the world was flat. without acually discovering that you could circumnavigate the globe how would you even know that it was round? if i look outside my house i just see a flat surface as far as i can see, its only when i get a birds eye view of the world from space that i can really get the picture. this is probably the same for the universe. without acually finding an end (either the absolute end or meeting back to the starting point) then how can we even begin to guess how its shaped?

even if we use the theories mentioned, its still like trying to solve a math equation without half of the equation. we know such a small part of the world and what governs it that it seems nonsensical to say anything as absolute truth. the world just cannot be flat, perhaps more square shaped, but not flat. reason points that flat cannot work, not true flat anyway.

seems more reasonable to me that the world is a constant expanding sphere, like a regular explosion.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

All your points are moot, since its actually like the ending to MIB.

[highwind]

Re: The universe is 13.7 billion years old

your mom is flat.