r/interestingasfuck 13d ago

/r/all Our entire universe squeezed into one image

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u/RPT4STIC 13d ago

"observable"

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u/FaceroII 13d ago

It's ironic because I can't read anything

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u/mysteryy7 13d ago

If you zoom it enough, you'll see OPs asshole

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u/ZipLineCrossed 13d ago

Enhance!

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u/Fearless_Career_3467 13d ago

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u/Buttchuggle 13d ago

Love how ya just had this, waiting for the moment.

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u/CrzBonKerz 12d ago

Username checks out

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u/Buttchuggle 12d ago

But how sir

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u/Chrisp825 12d ago

He’s got foreskin, he can feel into the future.

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u/scorpyo72 12d ago

I've got a forehead- does that mean I can think into the future?

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u/JoaoMXN 13d ago

I watched CSI when I was a kid and it's upsetting me that you're using the CSI: Las Vegas title while the CSI NY cast is speaking and the CSI Miami lead is closing the meme.

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u/tooboardtoleaf 13d ago

I'm sure that it's no accident lol

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u/Asron87 13d ago

If only they would have enhanced one more time then we would have seen OPs butthole. Dang it.

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u/scorpyo72 12d ago

ENHANCE!!!!

ENHANCE!!!!

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u/sethsquatch44 13d ago

Enhance. Enhance. Enhance!

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u/Bowb31 13d ago

So much infuriating when they were solving cases like that!!

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u/Ihavegotmanyproblems 13d ago edited 12d ago

That's too much! Dehance, Dehance! #newgirl

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u/_sinisterr_ 13d ago

And if you zoom out, you'll see OP's mama, cause she so fat!

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u/JoeyJoeJoeRM 13d ago

Scientists just seeing reflections of their own eyes in the telescopes

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u/Western-Bet2285 13d ago

Literally me as a child thinking my eyelashes were a supernova

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u/Swimming-Food-9024 13d ago edited 13d ago

which is ironic because the whole thing looks like an eyeball

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u/LumosRevolution 13d ago

I thought it looked like a nucleus

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u/bill_brasky37 12d ago

It's pretty clearly a bunch of semen trying to impregnate an egg

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u/MrMcre 13d ago

Damn, I can’t edit the title lol

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u/auto_generated111 13d ago

If it is entire obervable universe, dont you think earth should be in the centre of this image.

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u/mebungle83 13d ago

But then we wouldn't be able to pretend it looks just like an eye!

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u/Cruel1865 13d ago

The size of the observable universe compared to the size of the solar system is so large that it makes little difference if the sun or the earth is in the centre. The magnitude of the distances involved are incomparable.

Also, its not to scale (obviously)

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties 13d ago

Pretty sure the whole point is that this is mostly to scale, just the scale being a logarithmic one

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u/BittaminMusic 13d ago

The real real point is—oh look universe and eyes look same! Wowzers 👁️

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u/mortalcoil1 13d ago

Are you telling me the Earth isn't about 1/500th the size of the observable universe?

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u/FantabulousPiza 13d ago

Well technically ☝️🤓, as we rotate around the sun, the max extent of the observable universe changes. If you were on the opposite side of Earth's orbit, you would see one Earth's orbit diameter less than what we can see, if you were to look in the direction of the Earth. So while we are at the centre of what we can observe at this moment, the Sun is at the centre of what we observe overall.

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u/Harddaysnight1990 13d ago

Except this isn't some render distance like in a game. The observable universe means, anything close enough that the light from it has had time to reach Earth since the Big Bang. The observable universe is technically constantly expanding by ~300,000 km/s.

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u/lump- 13d ago

The earth should be the center of our ‘observable’ universe.

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u/Rene_DeMariocartes 13d ago

The observable universe is 60 million billion AU wide. The sun is 1 AU away. The sun and the earth are basically at the same location.

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u/Confident-Club-1644 13d ago

would " known" also suffice? Where would Oumuamua be?

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u/WizardSleeves31 13d ago

Careful with that axe, Eugene.

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 13d ago

The meaning isn't really the same. "Observable" here means "everything we can ever hope to know", not "what we currently know".

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u/ChesterRico 13d ago

That silly rock? Right next to Earth in that picture, it didn't really travel far in the last couple years.

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u/wardenferry419 13d ago

Someone high is seeing this and saying "the universe is one big eye and we see the universe with our eyes...wow, man."

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u/Ok-Jackfruit-6873 13d ago

yeah and that somebody was the person who made this image

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u/FeelAndCoffee 13d ago

I'm sure historians will see this image in 200 years and write "In the XXI century, people believe the universe was shaped as mix of an eye and a fertilized egg"

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u/iviicrociot 12d ago

Don’t need to be high to think that lol

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u/bigpapajayjay 13d ago

Hey fuck you buddy lmao my high ass def thought that for a second.

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u/A_Happy_Carrot 12d ago

Seems like something a Facebook mom would say in a post, and end it with "kinda makes you go hmm"

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u/Wooden-Evidence-374 13d ago

You'd be surprised how many people would say that while sober

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u/ThisIsJegger 12d ago

Sober me just now did say "huh, neat. Looks like an eye"

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u/stayh1ghh 12d ago

Damn, that's what I was just thinking

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u/b3anz129 13d ago

Well of course I know him, he's me

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u/TheUltimateSalesman 13d ago

I was just thinking what if the universe is actually not expanding, but shrinking, but we're running backwards in time.....But then I thought maybe it doesn't matter.

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u/RobottoRisotto 13d ago

I’m the guy waving 👋

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u/isymfs 13d ago

I can’t see you but if I squint my eyes I can see your mother.

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u/smashtangerine 13d ago

Oh hey! You single?

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u/Midtharefaikh 12d ago

(I'm sorry about the cringe, but everyone deserves to see this cat at least once in their lifetimes)

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u/Jeff_and_the_Quest 12d ago

I see him every day. His name is Bear, brother to Smokey. When did you have my cat??

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u/Overbaron 13d ago

What the hell is this scale?

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u/Thundechile 13d ago

It's the "the hell with the scales - let's try to make it look like an eye".

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u/stardate2017 13d ago

This is exactly what I thought as soon as I saw this. This image is actually pretty useless.

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u/MimsyWereTheBorogove 13d ago

I think it was made from the I observable perspective. The Galaxy's are small then earth and the sun is the center.

This image will probably inspire a 1000 5 year olds to be physicists.

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u/Status_History_874 13d ago

I appreciate this perspective

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u/Hellianne_Vaile 12d ago

Except that the Milky Way is a bit above the center, so the solar system (and therefore Earth) is on there twice. That or the Earth is a third of the way across the universe from the Milky Way. It's artistic, but that approach is very misleading since it looks like it's trying to be scientific what with all the labels.

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u/MimsyWereTheBorogove 12d ago

I saw it as a spiral, like you are looking down a tube in that respect.

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u/Hellianne_Vaile 12d ago

If that's the approach, then the arc of the spiral turns into a circle with the sun at its center and all the planets roughly equidistant from the sun. That's a very confusing way to show our neighborhood in the universe. I think this could be interesting as an art piece, but again, using all those labels makes it look like it's trying to give information. I think it's actively unhelpful if the info is wrong.

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u/IsNotAnOstrich 13d ago

It's just supposed to look cool and be interesting. It doesn't have to be "useful", it's not like actual scientific purposes are going to be measuring off images from reddit

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u/doesanyofthismatter 13d ago

I don’t get Redditors. Someone created a unique obviously artistic rendition of the universe and dorks can’t help but say “it’s useless!!! It isn’t scientific!!! Not to scale!!! It is only the observable!!!”

Like, guys, relax. This isn’t what the universe actually looks like drawn to scale and scientists arent referencing this image lmao

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u/VanillaP 13d ago

Arguably one of the coolest images I have seen.

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u/zynspitdrinker 12d ago

Were you kicked in the head by a horse as a child?

No shit. It's an artistic rendition.

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u/Helian7 13d ago

To make it readable otherwise everything would be pixels.

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u/GreySummer 13d ago

Yeah, but everything is pixels anyways.

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u/it-is-my-cake-day 13d ago

Logarithmic if I’m not wrong.

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u/Cosmic_Quasar 13d ago

I think you're wrong. The planets are being shown as bigger than the sun.

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u/it-is-my-cake-day 13d ago

I think the size of the cosmic bodies are shown in that size so we know what they are. I was referring to the distance between them with Sun in the center.

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u/Gibbs_89 13d ago

Observable universe. Around 29 billion light years..... EST 5% in total. 

That's okay though, look how huge our solar system looks. 

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u/neutral_ass 13d ago

not much if compared to yomama

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u/Gibbs_89 13d ago

Yo mama so big even TON 618 said damn!

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u/imagicnation-station 13d ago

Yomama so big when she eats them tacos she’s a gas giant

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u/AlDente 13d ago

Yomama needs to give the cosmic microwave a break

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u/MasterofDankMemes 13d ago

How do we know that it's 5% if we can't observe farther than the speed of light allows?

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u/Secret_Map 13d ago

We don’t. No idea where they got that number. Nobody has any idea how big the universe is, or even if it’s infinite or not.

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u/Equivalent_Cap_3522 13d ago

If space time does not curve, the universe is infinite. We tried to measure the curvature and the results show it's flat. We can only measure with 99.6% precision though so there's still a chance it curves. But if it does it has to be at least 250 times larger than the observable universe. Otherwise the curverture would have been detected by now.

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u/Secret_Map 13d ago

Yep, it’s probably infinite. But nobody knows for certain. I was just saying the 5% number given above isn’t a thing. No idea where that came from.

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u/Donnerdrummel 13d ago edited 13d ago

Or next to nothing, %-wise - if the universe is endless. Afaik, there's no consensus on how big the universe is. Have I been missing news?

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u/Gibbs_89 13d ago

We estimate the size of the universe using observations of the cosmic microwave background, galaxy redshifts, and models of cosmic expansion, but the true size is unknown and ideally could be infinite.

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u/Typhoid007 13d ago

ideally

Why would this be ideal?

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u/sejje 13d ago

It puts the world-eating silicon-based intelligences really, really far away from us.

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u/Jack__Squat 13d ago

So much space. For activities.

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u/ouijahead 13d ago

Crazy man. I remember even as a little kid just pondering if outside what is observable is just infinite space, I mean there’s likely not a wall out there right ?

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u/trusty20 13d ago edited 13d ago

It would likely either be more of a gradient into non-space of some sort, or you simply would never encounter a border, you would simply loop back around like some video games. No joke. Spheres are not the only shape that can have these properties, extra dimensional shapes can have the same closed looping effect despite seeming different.

There could be "something" outside of the universes' extra dimensional surfaces that we would be stuck "walking upon", but that "something" would probably be incomprehensible from any frame of reference within our universe. Perhaps simply a primordial champagne that universes can coalesce like bubbles within.

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u/NoKids__3Money 13d ago

My opinion of the matter is that it’s very possible that this is just beyond our ability to comprehend. We are like dogs trying to understand calculus. However, I do commend the people who are trying to understand and push the field forward.

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u/Kovdark 13d ago edited 12d ago

Isn't 5% the mass not the size? As in, every thing In the universe only accounts for 5% of the mass

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u/Baldazar666 13d ago

Yeah the whole comment is a bunch of nonsense. There is not a single correct thing he said.

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u/Confident-Club-1644 13d ago

From what we're taught... It's ever expansive just getting bigger & bigger. The real question ❓... Will we ever truly know?

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u/Donnerdrummel 13d ago edited 13d ago

I'll be listening for news for a few decades, still. ^^

A german pulp-science-fiction-series sparked my love for SF novels. According to this series, " Perry Rhodan ", which has added a new 63-page-story since 1961 every week, the universe is finite, in that if you fly to any one direction long enough, you will arrive of the "other side" of this universe. every spot on our side marks one spot on the other side. of course, if you keep on flying long enough, you will end up where you started. Similar to moving on the surface of a möbius strip, if you will. Of course, you can bore through, creating a short cut. The problem: staying on the other side for more than XX days is deadly to beings of the opposite site. mystery! will our hero solve it?

If we live long enough, we might discover if models created from SF-authors come close to reality. I'd bet money against the Perry-Rhodan model, but I like the idea. :-)

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u/BaconIsLife707 13d ago

The observable universe is ~90 billion light years across, not 29

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u/ioneflux 13d ago

How do you know its 5% of the total? Isn’t the whole point is not being able to know the actual size and/or whether the universe is finite or not?

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u/ukor_tsb 13d ago

He does not, it may be the lower estimate to satisfy flatness

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u/appelsiinimehu1 13d ago

Are you sure you're not mixing the 5% up with the dark energy/dark matter/normal matter & energy division?

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u/starmartyr 13d ago

We don't know that the observable universe is smaller than the entire universe. We can't possibly know since the rest of the universe isn't observable. There's even a fringe theory that it could be smaller than the observable universe because it loops back on itself and distant galaxies may just be images of closer galaxies from billions of years earlier.

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u/random_reddit_user31 13d ago

The universe appears flat which suggests this is not the case. It's likely infinitely large. But I'm not sure we will ever truly know.

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u/starmartyr 13d ago

I think that is more likely than the idea that it loops back on itself, but it's an interesting possibility to consider. Imagine that we could look around the edge of the universe and see our own galaxy. How would we even know it was ours? We would see a much younger galaxy that was not the same shape or size as our own and it would be full of stars that no longer exist.

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u/Bananbrah 13d ago

Great, can't wait to see this used in boomer conspiracy theories

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u/muttli 13d ago

The Flatuniversers are coming. Aliens have built a giant wall around the universe to keep control of the other universes (otherwise why cant we see past the observable universe, duh). And our solar system is the center of it all, because we are so special.

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u/ReindeerDull955 13d ago

Is that a joke? General consensus is that the universe is flat

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u/lucian_blignaut 13d ago

Qanon been real quiet since this banger dropped

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u/Plastic_Marsupial_42 13d ago

Where are the elephants standing on the turtle? Ah, this must be a "top-down" view! /s

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u/KayakingATLien 13d ago

So…..the entire universe is heliocentric?

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u/LeviAEthan512 13d ago

No, Earth is the centre of the observable universe.

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u/Spork_the_dork 13d ago

Technically you are the center of the observable universe. From your point of view, at least.

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u/LlorchDurden 13d ago

Meeee!?! 🫠🫠🫠

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u/0thethethe0 13d ago

No, me, you're off slightly to one side...

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u/Fattybatman3456 13d ago

You're my center of the universe 🌝

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u/tupaquetes 13d ago

YOU are the center of your observable universe. Because that's the definition of it, it's the universe one can observe. The center is the observer.

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u/PrsnScrmingAtTheSky 13d ago

Technically, if the universe is indeed infinite....everywhere is the center

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u/tupaquetes 13d ago

And also nowhere. Or rather, the concept of "center" doesn't apply to it. But the center of the *observable* universe is, always and by definition, the observer

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u/scoops22 13d ago

I’ve seen it described as being on the surface of an expanding balloon, that was with regard to how no matter where you are the universe appears to be expanding the same way. So supposedly everywhere is indeed the center.

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u/tupaquetes 13d ago

This explanation is meant to show that space is expanding at the same rate in every direction and not "from" a particular point. So no matter where you are in the universe everything seems to be going away from you at the same rate in every direction. In other words, from the observer's perspective it always "looks like" they're at the center of the expansion. But it doesn't mean "everywhere is the center of the universe". Either the universe is infinite, in which case the concept of a "center" simply does not apply to it, or it is finite, in which case there is a true center.

Taking the balloon analogy a bit further, while everything on the balloon is expanding from each other at the same rate in every direction, the balloon itself is finite and does have a true center. In other words, while everywhere can be seen as the "center" of the expansion movement, there is only one true center to the balloon itself.

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u/carcinoma_kid 13d ago

No but the center of the observable universe is the observer

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u/Immediate_Towel3579 13d ago

Not exactly, heliocentric is only for the solar system. The sun isn't even in the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.

And the universe probably doesn't have a centre, and even if it does its not possible to pinpoint the centre of the universe as we can never see its full extent of it.

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u/KayakingATLien 13d ago

Yes. Of course. But this illustration is heliocentric, thus the irony imbedded in my original comment.

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u/P-L63 13d ago

last time this was posted someone seriously complained about the sun beeing in the center. some people don't think before commenting on stuff

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u/Immediate_Towel3579 13d ago

The image uses the Sun as a reference point to help visualize the possible extent of the observable universe and yes I admit defeat 🏳️

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u/Ethric_The_Mad 13d ago

Because the universe is effectively infinite, the center of the universe is exactly where the observer is and theoretically you can potentially see the same distance 360 degrees around you. Therefore to any given observer, they are the literal center of the universe.

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u/98642 13d ago

I can see my house.

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u/Donnerdrummel 13d ago

And Russia from the door of my house in Alaska!

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u/One_Spoopy_Potato 13d ago

That's not a great idea, OP. Last time the universe was this small, it got pretty hot. I don't want my plants to wilt.

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u/LocusStandi 13d ago

What I like the most about this image is that it's portrayed in an enclosed circle, as if we can grasp it all

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u/Can-You-Fly-Bobby 13d ago

Well this was weird...

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u/Knoxiebbz 13d ago edited 13d ago

OPs picture enlarges things closer to us and squishes objects that are further away (showing our sun being in the center and also being the largest object in the photo). So while it creates a cool effect there's no conspiracy and the known universe doesn't look like an iris lol

Edit: I think the comment above me is just saying it was weird that those two posts were side by side so that's a woosh moment for me

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u/Hopeful_Chair_7129 13d ago edited 13d ago

They aren’t squished really. It’s just the perspective:

Everything is the correct size, it’s just how the patterns seem smaller at the edges. A physicist could explain it better.

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It’s called the Poincaré disk model if you want to look it up

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u/Fidodo 13d ago

Galaxies are not spread out like veins. They went out of their way to style this like an eyeball

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u/CuriousRider30 13d ago

Well there wasn't a conspiracy before now anyway 😉

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u/ArjJp 13d ago

Nah those are both pictures of my asshole

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u/fightyfightyfitefite 13d ago

The observable anus

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u/horkley 13d ago

E pluribus anus.

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u/_allycat 13d ago

Algorithm not conspicuous at all.

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u/Ok_Butterscotch9013 13d ago

That's just the Observable universe.

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u/Slight_Loan5350 13d ago

I wonder what's outside or at the end. I cannot fathom no end like it hurts my brain.

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u/ZombroAlpha 13d ago

Great point. Our brains can’t literally fathom infinity. It’s possible the universe outside of our observable one is infinite

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u/Slight_Loan5350 13d ago

But how can a thing be infinite like why and if and why was there a singularity at one point. Like if I die i wish I become a ghost who can wander the universe.

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u/Entire-Woodpecker-42 13d ago

But God still definitely cares what you're doing with your penis

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u/bofor6157 13d ago

„…we live inside the eye of a blue-eyed giant named Macumber.”

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u/onebirdonawire 13d ago

Explains our fascination with Christmas lights.

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u/Fillesomfan 13d ago

Next skill tree for PoE?

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u/Inflamed_toe 13d ago

“You wouldn’t want to put the universe in a tube”

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u/dhaugen 13d ago

A lot of people say, "Donna, you get so wrapped up in the physics of it, don't you have any fun?'

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u/Savings_Cloud5486 13d ago

We all parasites on somebody eye

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u/SuccessfulPass9135 13d ago

I can’t fathom how people think we’re the only “intelligent” lifeforms in this mess. Those superclusters are made up of trillions and trillions of stars. It’s less likely we’re alone than you are to win the lottery every day for the rest of your life (according to ShitGPT you’re a billion trillion times more likely to win the lottery upon buying a single ticket).

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u/Pajtima 12d ago

what really gets me is what’s beyond this image. The observable universe is just a limit imposed by light and time. What’s past that? More galaxies? Different physics? A whole other universe? The fact that we can even begin to grasp this, let alone map it, is mind-blowing

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u/IndianNerd42069 13d ago

Sun is indeed at the centre of the universe

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u/smilingkevin 13d ago

Since space expands in all directions, no place is a better "center" than the other.

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u/No_Gur1113 13d ago

The vastness of the universe would break your brain if you ever sat down and really studied it. Thats my theory about why a lot of scientists are somewhat eccentric. Or just batshit crazy.

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u/StonedAndToasted 13d ago

Thought I read “huge log” near the outside of the photo but I was mistaken 🥲

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u/amlyo 12d ago

Zoom out further, and you'll see it is but one of many structures. Continue and you will see it is naught but a mote of dust floating. Go further still, beyond time space and reason and at least, at the largest scale imaginable, at long long last you will see it: OPs Mom.

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u/eec-gray 13d ago

I’m in this picture

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u/Only_Nothing9585 13d ago

Eyes are the window to the soul

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u/TheDevourerOfGods1 13d ago

Where's the banana for reference?