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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like proof of the flat earth

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

MitocondriSol: powerhouse of the cell.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Everyone sees the butthole too, right?

[–] SGforce 8 points 23 hours ago

It's buttholes all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

I see a fucked up eyeball.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm yes, we are all pondering this spherical orb right now.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (15 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 6 points 22 hours 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] 2 points 16 hours 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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is what the human eye looks like through a microscope, from the perspective of a germ on a microscope slide.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (13 children)

Serious question: Do we know how far removed from the exact center of the Big Bang we are? Is that something that can be deduced?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

"the exact center of the Big Bang" is not a phrase that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

I'm not sure if this answers the question, but it might help.

Everything in space is moving, but it's not expanding outward from a central point, like an explosion. Instead, the space between the things is getting bigger.

The balloon analogy gets thrown around a lot, but I find it misleading- It's not about the balloon getting bigger, expanding outward from the center of the sphere. It's more about the surface of that balloon stretching.

The rubber sheet analogy helps. Scatter a bunch of things on a infinite rubber sheet. Now stretch that in all directions - the things get further apart, but are not moving away from a central point.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you mean woo-woo shit or conspiracy shit? Or both?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, isn't it obvious? Christianity has traditionally believed that Earth is the center of the Universe. Everything in the Universe is moving away from us, as if we are sitting at the very spot where "Let There Be Light" resulted in light being let. Physics has proven that we are at the literal single unique geometric center of the Universe. /s

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Proof that the universe is an egg. Armageddon will come when the Christian God's sperm comes to fertilize us and we'll be reborn into Heaven unless climate change aborts us as a foetus

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Gaze not into the abyss

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