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I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (23 children)

Is the radial scale logarithmic? Or is it even more compressed than that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (21 children)

First thing I will point out is there is no known shape of the universe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (17 children)

If we assume the hubble constant is the same in all directions, the farthest we'd be able to see would be a sphere, dictated by the time light has had to travel to us.

[–] Grimpen 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's what I'm assuming the original diagram is showing, the "Observable Universe" in some sort of radically increasing scale.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It'd be interesting to see what a log scale would look like for this. I'll see if I can find one.

Here's one.

Log scale diagram of the observable universe https://pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/atlas-of-universe-is-linear-version-of_15.html

Looks like the image at the top is a bit condensed comparatively.

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