http://www.ted.com At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos — with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids — got built this way.
Duration : 0:19:1
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November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
4 million
4 million
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
u mean u haven’t …
u mean u haven’t found any yet?
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
These (words above) …
These (words above) are clearly the words of a rocket scienctist.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
yeah, pretty much. …
yeah, pretty much. Its just like asking, what’s the biggest number. Our mind is not capable of imagining it.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
are you sure?
are you sure?
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
No. Too many people …
No. Too many people in this planet have been dumbed down by the people who control us. And, unfortunately, these people think things like this are boring and irrelevant and choose not to educate themselves on things that really matter. All their lives consist of is the small area of Earth in which they operate. We need to wake up.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
amen brother
amen brother
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
nah niggers
nah niggers
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
If there was …
If there was something reflective on a planet being viewed 2 Million years ago (referring to 3:52), would we be able to see the Earth 4-Million ears ago?
I understand with current technology it would be way to small but you get the idea…
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
How can anyone …
How can anyone after watching the camera fly through a couple of thousand GALAXIES still think that nationalities or ethnicities on our diminutive planet are worth quibbling over? We’re all on board of this wonderful tiny spaceship called Earth. I wonder if the bigger part of mankind will ever wake up and take notice of its prestigious abilities to understand and explore the world beyond our own petty horizons.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
There is no …
There is no evidence that we are here for a reason.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Is it just me, or …
Is it just me, or does that one scaled model look like a bunch of nerve cells?
And the wmap images look a lot like where we live today. Keep in mind that the red(heat) in the middle would be similar to our equator.
Folks, we aren’t here by accident.
Just keep that in mind in your search for truth.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Non-sense to those …
Non-sense to those who have no formal education and are really poor in Mathematics.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
when we die we will
when we die we will
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
ironic….I get …
ironic….I get depressed thinkin this….cause we will Never ever know what’s the true nature of reality….
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
non-sense!
non-sense!
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
This subject never …
This subject never gets old to me.When i get depressed i surround my mind with this question or similar question.Universe design?Is there a god?Will we ever become a type I,II or III civ?
Thanks for the vid……Love it……
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Big and small are …
Big and small are relative concepts. The universe is undeniably bigger than our house, neighborhood, city, state, country, world, solar system, and galaxy.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I see your point, …
I see your point, but just because the light is closer to you, it still takes the same amount of time for the light from the sun or other objects, to reach your lens on your telescope.
P.s A light year is the time it takes for light to travel a year, so along distance.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I’m wondering maybe …
I’m wondering maybe our universe isn’t that big as we think. Maybe we are so so small that it look like its large. Think… if we look on our world through bacteria point of view…
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Our telescopes, …
Our telescopes, however advanced they may be, can’t make light travel faster than it already does.
The best analogy I can give are hearing aids. They amplify sound, but you still can’t hear that sound until it reaches your ears.
The light from stars we see in the telescopes
is the same light we see from Earth. The size and shape are just amplified.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
The shape.
we live …
The shape.
we live off from the centre right of the neck zone of this collective point in quantum time.
Of further to the left from this zone (the universe space) is a higher degree of disparity with less collective space, To the Right is a highly centred set of special with a quite a dynamic distance of collective gravitation over to the right of this spot.
We are about 10 minor collective points away from oceanic space, there are three advance collective coves in this region on the right side.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
No it doesn’t …
No it doesn’t because our advance telescopes can literally break the gap of visual distance. The light won’t need 1000 years to reach us. Hence, my question is who determines if the image we see is years away???
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Light years is the …
Light years is the time that it takes for light to travel to you. Thats why he says that the universe is kinda like a time machine. Not in the sense that you can step through it into another point in time, but more like a time window where you can observe the past. If you look up at a star for example, that star might not be there anymore. that star could be 1000 light years away so your only looking at what that star looked like 1000 years ago. Does that help?
November 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Why would the …
Why would the distance of other Galaxies determine the time that has past in the universe??? Did it really take 2 million years for the image of the andromeda galaxy to reach our scopes. You’d have a lot of dead observers by then. What is light years? Can somebody explain???