Icarus Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 A friend posted this on Facebook last night and I thought I would share it. Enjoy! As a person in physics, I have studied many different phenomena on different length scales (e.g. Planck scale, quantum scale, astrophysical scale, et cetera), so I find it very interesting to see how everything stacks up in comparison to other scales. For example, if your scaling is meters, the Earth is pretty big (with a radius of about 6,378 km), but on the astrophysical scale, the Earth is but a speck of dust in the Universe. I also learned about some things out there in the Universe that I never knew existed; Gomez's Hamburger was a particularly interesting find since I had never heard of it before (and I liked the name). I hope you enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ska Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Saw this on Gizmodo a while back, it's really some amazing stuff. Makes you wonder how long it took for them to gather all of this and implement it in the way that they did. Certainly puts things into perspective, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinski Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I think I saw the first version of this a while ago (note this is no. 2). Things like this always boggle my mind. It's always a lesson in scale, both ways too; humans are actually quite far up on the scale there, about 2/3s, which is mental. To think that we're about 2/3s of the way between the smallest thing and the biggest thing ( that we can see) is crazy. Things can be so small as well as so large. I love cosmology and all this sh*t. I could listen to Carl Sagan and Neil DeGrasse Tyson stuff all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of delete key Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 A friend posted this on Facebook last night and I thought I would share it. Enjoy! Damn you, Icarus, you just made me blow like 45 minutes zooming in and out Very interesting, even though the popup tags were cheesy. Nice music too. "I can just imagine him driving off the edge of a cliff like Thelma & Louise, playing his Q:13 mix at full volume, crying into a bottle." - Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaidRaida Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Sh*t, my mousewheel is broken now! Now that´s a pretty cool animation. I was always interested in astronomy. Always watching those space reports on National Geographic. Thanks Icarus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0mm2k8 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) The fact that I know and understand what everything on that scale is makes me notice how much more intelligent I am now compared to this time last year. Other than that, this scale is awesome. I always like to see/hear something that makes everything on this planet feel unimportant and pointless (which it is). EDIT: Just noticed that it has the Minecraft World on there Edited February 10, 2012 by d0mm2k8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIKKS66 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Here, I heard "God" created all that... Also, holy sh*t, I do not want to meet a Japanese spider crab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Trooper. Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Mind blown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonnyBlack Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 It's amazing to see just how tiny we are compared to our world, and just how tiny our world is compared to the rest of the universe. It blows my mind every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menaced Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Blimey. The Universe is mind-blowingly huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seddo Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Also, holy sh*t, I do not want to meet a Japanese spider crab. Thinking the same thing, then i Googled them. Don't go scuba diving in Melbourne. This is great i've just been sat there for a while just zooming in and out, getting spaced out by that music as well, makes me sleepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaidRaida Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) Looking at the miracles of the universe with all it´s details in small scales and also huge scales, it is inexcusable how we still behave down here sometimes. Considering that there is a chance that we are the only lifeform like that it is even more shaming. Edited February 10, 2012 by NaidRaida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guib Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 The universe is so big and there is so much in it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules14 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 This gives a lot of panic when on drugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
na89340qv0n34b09q340 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Here's a link to the original which I happen to like better. Although it doesn't allow mouse-wheel scrolling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheat Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Truly fascinating, never been a fan of physics but stuff like this never ceases to amaze... Thanks for this, Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIKKS66 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Also, holy sh*t, I do not want to meet a Japanese spider crab. Thinking the same thing, then i Googled them. Don't go scuba diving in Melbourne. Mother of crab... The Dovahkiin himself would sh*t it faced with that many crabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4 Bagger Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 This actually made my eyes water. My mind is f*cking blown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA_stu Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I wonder how many planck's the universe is from one side to another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGig Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 This is, by far, one of the most interesting posts I've come across. I love everything to do with physics and astronomy. I'm currently learning about string theory so it's a pretty basic interest. This was genuinely interesting. Cheers, man. Also, some of you who liked this might find this interesting or, at the least, somewhat entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeebuuus Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Maybe time and space are infinite. No beginning, no end. There are distances further than we can see and smaller than we can see. What does that make us? The universe experiencing itself? Woah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpain Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Also, holy sh*t, I do not want to meet a Japanese spider crab. Thinking the same thing, then i Googled them. Don't go scuba diving in Melbourne. Mother of crab... The Dovahkiin himself would sh*t it faced with that many crabs. I shat my pants when I saw they're larger than humans. Thanks GOD! Did anybody not noticed Minecraft World? That was awesome. This was truly a mesmerizing experience, thanks for sharing this. I'm barely halfway through. And what the hell is a planck again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 And what the hell is a planck again? Max Planck was a German physicist; he was well noted for many things, but one of his main contributions was his discovery that energy needs to be quantized, which helped to solve the Ultraviolet Catastrophe in 1900. It was kind of funny considering Planck didn't actually believe in the quantization of energy, yet he hypothesized it and it turned out to be the solution to the problem at hand. Anyways, there's a constant named after Planck, called Planck's constant, h = 6.626 x 10^-34 J-s; a Planck length is about 10^-35 meters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Really great stuff, Scott. I've been watching over a lot of Carl Sagan interviews lately and the memorable stuff like his 'pale blue dot' monologue come to mind when I start to imagine the scale of the universe. The quantum universe and the vast empty space are quite magnificent in their own respects, but I've always been weary and appreciative of the cosmological constants and patterns that each of them hold in relation to us. It's a truly beautiful pattern that weaves us into the other particles that happen to be moving around space, be they on this planet or somewhere in the void of space we've yet to explore. Kudos for making a topic that was worth the click, Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coin-god Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I saw this a long time ago. Great stuff. I remember seing one of real footage from the 70s I think, I will have to look for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinski Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Really great stuff, Scott. I've been watching over a lot of Carl Sagan interviews lately and the memorable stuff like his 'pale blue dot' monologue come to mind when I start to imagine the scale of the universe. The quantum universe and the vast empty space are quite magnificent in their own respects, but I've always been weary and appreciative of the cosmological constants and patterns that each of them hold in relation to us. It's a truly beautiful pattern that weaves us into the other particles that happen to be moving around space, be they on this planet or somewhere in the void of space we've yet to explore. Kudos for making a topic that was worth the click, Scott. You should check out the rest of the Pale Blue Dot book. Or, even better, get the audio book. I didn't do any science past school, but maintained a very amateurish interest and I managed to keep up throughout the whole thing. I both love and hate that Hubble Deep Field image (which the gif on the last page was about for those who didn't watch it). I remember the first time I saw it I was pretty impressed that they saw that many stars in such a small piece of sky then read on a little more and went "woah, they're galaxies?!" and my mind just melted a little bit. Here's the massive version if anyone wants to gaze into the abyss of time/space: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 But was Carl Sagan a Satanist?? Anywho, Was it Newt Gingrich pushing for furthering the US Space program? One of the Presidential candidates I recall talking about it in the election squabbles. Now it may not seem important, but what do you think? Can we actually be colonizing other planets? I just don't see it happening any time soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEALUX Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 But was Carl Sagan a Satanist?? From what I could gather he was a pantheist. Where the hell did you get that idea? The Audiophile Thread XB271HU | TESORO Gram XS | Xtrfy MZ1 | Xbox Elite v2 | Hifiman Sundara | Fiio K9 Pro i7 4790K 4.4 GHz | GTX 1080 Ti | 32 GB Crucial DDR3 | ADATA 256GB | Samsung 860 PRO 2TB Xbox | Xbox 360 | Xbox Series X | PS2 | PS3 | Google Pixel 6 Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 He was a self-proclaimed agnostic. Leave it to Slamman to take a truly wonderful topic and muddle it with religion and politics within two sentences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Also, holy sh*t, I do not want to meet a Japanese spider crab. Me too. I'm even too scared to google it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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