Cosmology - Boundaries of the Knowable (3/10)

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1. These are beautifully profound contemplations
2. precisely....beautiful logical viewpoint.
3. great presentation at the old style... thanks so much for posting 
4. the best question you asked is why does anything exist? 
5. and stop chewing and swallowing on camera. Unbelievably agitating! 
6. Give up the wise old man full of riddles gimmick and talk to us straight, like adults. Your concept of communication is condescending and incredibly annoying. 
7. Another way to put it which I've head Brian Greene say is, it isn't an explosion IN space, but an explosion OF space. Quite a nice simple way of saying which helped me understand it a little better.
8. Galaxies are not moving apart from each other, but rather the space between them are stretching and expanding. So there was no central point in the sense that everything rushes away from that point, but you can think of it as every galaxy staying in their place, in the centre, at the big bang, but are getting further away from each other because of the expanding space between them. Hope that makes sense lol, tricky subject
9. So, the vectors of the stellar motion are not related in any way? Mind officially boggled.
10. So, the vectors of the stellar motion are not related in any way? Mind officially boggled.
11. So, the vectorso
12. Everything is expanding away from everything else. All points in the universe are expanding equidistantly. There is really no 'center location' in that all points are a center location of the instant of the big bang.
13. Has anyone backtracked tge motion/expansion and worked out the location of the big bang (or at least, the central point from which the movement is away from) ?
14. Stars and even galaxies are forming all the time, even today. Therefore,M51 and NGC5195 need not have formed at the same time and there's no reason to expect the stars in any galaxies at the same redshift to have the same ages. 
15. M51 and its companion galaxy (known as NGC5195) are relatively nearby galaxies to our own, being only 23 million light years away. The redshifts of each are the same (and both very tiny, because of their nearness to us, around 0.0015). The interaction between these two galaxies may have given rise to the spiral arm structure seen in M51. 
16. this is some deep stuff... very deep!
17. They really don't, there quite contradictory. Science attempts to understand the beginnings of space and time, while Christianity deems that they already know what caused the universe, God. I relate it to the ancient Greeks; in order to understand the unexplainable they created Gods such as Zeus to explain lightning and thunder, in attempts to understand the next question (the universe) us humans cope with we create another predictable deity. Break free from this blinded mindset!
18. read the bible. Genisis. its all there... science need not exclude creationism/(christian religion), and creationism/(christian religion) need not exclude science. in fact it makes a huge amount of sense if the 2 go hand in hand :-)
19. What if the question gains scientific meaning, while we learning more and more about the universe we live in? Who knows, there might be still an answer.
20. It's also quite interesting to note how what is called "the observable universe" which simply means that, "this is all we have been able to observe so far" is quite similar to neurons in the brain. Maybe the old philosophers and magi of old were right when they said that the stars are literally inside of us? Consciousness exploring inner space and humanity exploring outer space, could very well be one and the same.