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If I understand space-time right, and I doubt it, if you look far enough out in any direction, you’re looking at the same thing: the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago? The famous ultra deep field image below is about 13b years ago.
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This photo was taken by focusing the Hubble Telescope in the emptiest part of space for 10 days. Every blip in this photo is not a star, it's an entire GALAXY.
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It’s kinda a mindfuck to realize that there’s no “outside” to the universe. And if there was we would have no way to sense it. It just vanishes up its own space time rear end because relativity. Now if it wasn’t expanding it would behave more sensibly.
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I think normies have adopted an “aww nerd” patronizing attitude towards astronomy as a defense mechanism. They don’t want to contemplate this cosmic horror shit.
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Copernicus was like the first clever mechanic who merely built a car. Bruno was like the first race-car driver who jumped in the car, floored the accelerator (there was no brake or steering yet, that would come with Galileo and Newton) and crashed it, killing himself.
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