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Brighton TID

Brighton TID

New member
Jul 24, 2005
1,741
Horsham
Latest estimates put the diameter of the universe at 5900000000000 miles.
There is another party happening somewhere.
Could there also be another BHA in a parallel system?
Do we go there when we snuff it?
Can I wear my new yellow away top?

There are more questions than answers.
 










shaolinpunk

shaolinpunk

[Insert witty title here]
Nov 28, 2005
7,187
Brighton
Brighton TID said:
Latest estimates put the diameter of the universe at 5900000000000 miles.
There is another party happening somewhere.
Could there also be another BHA in a parallel system?
Do we go there when we snuff it?
Can I wear my new yellow away top?

There are more questions than answers.
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If you subscribe to the multiverse theory, there are an infinite number of Brighton & Hove Albions in parallel universes
 






The Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera Mechanism

The oldest known computer
NSC Patron
Aug 7, 2003
7,786
The furthest galaxy from earth is MACS0647-JD, which is about 13.3 billion light-years away. The universe itself is only 13.7 billion years old, so this galaxy's light has been traveling toward us for almost the whole history of space and time.

So by my reckoning this galaxy is 13,300,000,000 x 186,000 x 31,536,000 miles away = 78,013,800,000,000,000,000,000 miles, and that's only in one direction.
 


Tricky Dicky

Tricky Dicky

New member
Jul 27, 2004
13,558
Sunny Shoreham
The Antikythera Mechanism said:
The furthest galaxy from earth is MACS0647-JD, which is about 13.3 billion light-years away. The universe itself is only 13.7 billion years old, so this galaxy's light has been traveling toward us for almost the whole history of space and time.

So by my reckoning this galaxy is 13,300,000,000 x 186,000 x 31,536,000 miles away = 78,013,800,000,000,000,000,000 miles, and that's only in one direction.
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By definition, surely in every direction.
 




S

sten_super

Brain Surgeon
Jul 28, 2005
5,945
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
The Antikythera Mechanism said:
The furthest galaxy from earth is MACS0647-JD, which is about 13.3 billion light-years away. The universe itself is only 13.7 billion years old, so this galaxy's light has been traveling toward us for almost the whole history of space and time.
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Er, run that past me again. MACS0647-JD might now be 13.3 billion light-years away, but all that means is that light emitted from its star now won't get here for another 13.3 billion years. Presumably the light that we are seeing now is from billions of years in the past, when the galaxies were much closer together, given that we know the universe to be expanding.
 










Stat Brother

Stat Brother

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 11, 2003
73,643
West west west Sussex
Or is it just far away?
 


jgmcdee

jgmcdee

New member
Mar 25, 2012
931
Tricky Dicky said:
By definition, surely in every direction.
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If you think about MACS0647-JD and us as two separate points inside a football then no, not every direction. Unless you also know how far you (and they) are from the edge of the football you're no wiser as to how big the football is overall.
 






The Sock of Poskett

The Sock of Poskett

The best is yet to come (spoiler alert)
Jun 12, 2009
2,802
I often feel like I'm double-parked in a parallel universe. Never mind multiverses, try getting a plumber at the weekend.
 


Grombleton

Grombleton

Surrounded by <div>s
Dec 31, 2011
7,356
Tricky Dicky said:
By definition, surely in every direction.
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That would be on the basis that we are in fact the centre of the universe. We could be far out to the left for all we know.
 


glasfryn

glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick
Nov 29, 2005
20,261
somewhere in Eastbourne
sten_super said:
...not to to mention infinite Brighton & Hove Shalbions, Brighton & Hove Shalvions, Brighton City Albions, Brigton & Have Alboon, etc.
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and when you get there it could be someone called Barber shaking the change out of your spacesuit pocket
 




glasfryn

glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick
Nov 29, 2005
20,261
somewhere in Eastbourne
Brighton TID said:
Latest estimates put the diameter of the universe at 5900000000000 miles.
There is another party happening somewhere.
Could there also be another BHA in a parallel system?
Do we go there when we snuff it?
Can I wear my new yellow away top?

There are more questions than answers.
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I will try and let you know when and if I get there
you will know its me because I will make the flags at the Amex wave
 


Grombleton

Grombleton

Surrounded by <div>s
Dec 31, 2011
7,356
shaolinpunk said:
If you subscribe to the multiverse theory, there are an infinite number of Brighton & Hove Albions in parallel universes
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That was the best support act i've seen at a gig: Eels at Brighton Dome a few years ago, had a documentary with Mark Everett about his father Hugh, who proposed the many worlds theory. Utterly riveting, it was.
 


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