The universe is big

[Brighton TID]

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.

 

[daveinprague]

Whats beyond the Universe, thats the worry...

 

[daveinprague]

When did the universe stop being infinite anyway?

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Whats beyond the Universe, thats the worry...

Just trying tracing around a circle with your finger - let me know when you get to the end.

 

[shaolinpunk]

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.

If you subscribe to the multiverse theory, there are an infinite number of Brighton & Hove Albions in parallel universes

 

[sten_super]

If you subscribe to the multiverse theory, there are an infinite number of Brighton & Hove Albions in parallel universes

...not to to mention infinite Brighton & Hove Shalbions, Brighton & Hove Shalvions, Brighton City Albions, Brigton & Have Alboon, etc.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

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]

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.

By definition, surely in every direction.

 

[sten_super]

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.

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.

 

[pastafarian]

Latest estimates put the diameter of the universe at 5900000000000 miles.

are you sure?

 

[daveinprague]

Not sure really...start again... 1....2....3....4

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

Latest estimates put the diameter of the universe at 5900000000000 miles.

Don't you mean light years? Because in conventional measurement that isn't very far away with regards to space... (Does that make sense?)

 

[Stat Brother]

Or is it just far away?

 

[jgmcdee]

By definition, surely in every direction.

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.

 

[pastafarian]

Whats beyond the Universe, thats the worry...

Croydon

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

I often feel like I'm double-parked in a parallel universe. Never mind multiverses, try getting a plumber at the weekend.

 

[Grombleton]

By definition, surely in every direction.

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]

...not to to mention infinite Brighton & Hove Shalbions, Brighton & Hove Shalvions, Brighton City Albions, Brigton & Have Alboon, etc.

and when you get there it could be someone called Barber shaking the change out of your spacesuit pocket

 

[glasfryn]

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.

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]

If you subscribe to the multiverse theory, there are an infinite number of Brighton & Hove Albions in parallel universes

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.