the hubble tele

[Geme]

figures not even the brits get my hitchhiker's joke

[XoR]

Marvin: Not that anyone cares what I think, but the restaurant is at the *other* end of the Universe.
Trillian: Marvin... you saved our lives!
Marvin: I know. Wretched, isn't it?
Arthur: So this is it. Were going to die
Ford: Yes. Would you like a hug?
Arthur: No.
Arthur: I'll handle this. I'm British. I know how to queue.
Vogon: Oh no, he's closed the gate from the inside, we'll have to go round.
Marvin: I've calculated your chance of survival, but I don't think you'll like it.
Barman: Did you say the world is coming to an end? Shouldn't we all lie on the floor or put paper bags over our heads?
Ford: If you like.
Barman: Will it help?
Ford: Not at all.

[This_name_sucks]

Indeed....well anyway, I read up on gravitational lenses. I won't say what they are because I think you'll have fun either a) Looking it up, or b) showing everyone else what a smart arse you are by sharing your infinite knowledge
Also known as Einstein's rings...

[BadAsh]

It's supposedly when a high red-shift star is near a low redshift star, but since most modern astronomers still think redshift equals distance, they chalk it up to an optical illusion to prop up the big bang theory. do a search on einstein's cross for reference.

There have been many pictures that show high-redshift objects in front of lower redshift objects, also some with visible connections.

[Yazule]

ROFL!!!!!

And a quick note from me:

1. Time is not the 4th dimension, the 4th dimension is just another plan that exists that unfortunately due to our minds constrictions we find it nigh on impossible to picture. (You can see a picture of the shadow of a 4th dimensional cube however.. will try and find link). One reason i find logic for the fact that time is not the 4th dimension is that Black Holes in there nature create a 4th dimension, and creating time is a pathetic idea as time is relative and merely a human concept imposed on the world.

2. Currently/when i last looked, 12 dimensions had been theorised as existing in the universe we are in, just at atomic level. This seems very odd, but think about it like this: Imagine your a man with a height and depth but no width. You are walking along a tightrope. To you, all you can do is either jump up and down, or walk forward or back. However, to an atom there is another dimension, as it can do a loop AROUND the tightrope. This is an EXTREMELY basic example of how it works, it is actually completely different to this in real life but that is basically impossible to explain.

3. Space has approx. 1 Hydrogen atom per 10,000m cubed.

4. When people say that it would take 3light years to get to a galaxy, that is the time relative to us on Earth. So in other words, it would actually only seem to the man traveling the distance about 1 year. When working these out, time is shorter for the person moving, not longer for the people observing.

5. If people have meantioned the above before i only say it again as i probably just scimmed over were you said it.

1) Time is commonly called the 4th dimension. Tim IS a dimention so if I call it the 4th (like a LOT LOT LOT of scientists) then who are you to argue with the majoirty. On a side note I have plotted graphs in 4 dimentions, as well as 8 dimentions... mathmatically I can create close to an infinite number of axis with equal angles to all other axis through an origin. So I can plot any function of any number of variables.

As far as understanding what that plot means, you could put a book of hyroglyphs in front of me and I would not understand a thing about what they were saying even though my mind COULD comprehend it if I was taught.


2) most of that quantum mechanics is still construct and has not been proven with the scientific principle so I pretty much ignore that stuff, it isnt interesting enough to read as fiction. I am a newtonian by nature anyway but technically I can mathmatically construct as many dimentions as you want in my modeling software. (see #1)

3) Some parts of space, not all

4) actually, at .99999 of the speed of light (they say you cant actually go the speed of light) it would take the person in the ship 3 years to get there plus or minus a second or two, but to US 2142.8 years would have passed.. http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/timedilation.htm

you can get the conversion factor from that (previously posted and apparently ignored) link.

[Yazule]

oh and just to make it PERFECTLY CLEAR

I LIKE PORN MORE