The truly astounding fact is how fast we're all flying towards the great attractor. As we sit still watching RU-vid videos we are traveling at 1.3 million miles per hour towards the great attractor. Think about that. That's about 360 miles every second of every day of your life. By the time you finish reading this comment you'll be thousands of miles away from where you were when you started reading this comment. I suddenly feel compelled to apologize for taking up so much of your time.
One thing im confused on is isnt the universe expanding? And things are getting farther and farther apart then how are we all getting pulled closer to something.
@@danieljordan1433 ....we're moving towards the great attractor, but at the same time the great attractor is actually moving away from us faster than we are going towards it. Imagine walking towards a car at 5mph while the car is moving away at 10mph. We're heading in the direction of its location but we're not getting closer, the distance between us is actually increasing.
Yeah but everything and everyone you know and love is moving with you...so for all intents and purposes, we're not moving....its just technically, we are.
Beware, for they are not as you think they are. Cosmic light flickers upon their eyes as the vast intelligences they wield are beyond even the most reaching of the eyes of Man.
We are the world. We are the children. We are the ones to make a brighter day so let's start giving. There's a choice we're making. We're saving our own lives...
“With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.” ― Edwin Powell Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae
"…Such a condition would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a central Earth...This hypothesis cannot be disproved, but it is unwelcome and would only be accepted as a last resort in order to save the phenomena. Therefore, we disregard this possibility.... the unwelcome position of a favored location must be avoided at all costs.... such a favored position is intolerable...Therefore, in order to restore homogeneity and to escape the horror of a unique position…must be compensated by spatial curvature. There seems to be no other escape." (Edwin Hubble, The Observational Approach to Cosmology)
@@narajuna And the more we look into it, the more it seems that, despite not being the center of the universe, we are very special. Simply the kind of accidents it takes to create a place like earth in such a special solar system are mind boggling. But sadly it seems earth and in turn the Sol-system is a very unique place compared to other solar systems out there.
@@theexchipmunk "[Redshifts] would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a central Earth[...] This hypothesis cannot be disproved" - Edwin Hubble in The Observational Approach to Cosmology "[A]ll this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe. In particular, it might seem that if we observe all other galaxies to be moving away from us, then we must be at the center of the universe[...] We [reject] it only on grounds of modesty" - Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time "If the Earth were at the center of the universe, the attraction of the surrounding mass of stars would also produce redshifts wherever we looked! [This] theory seems quite consistent with our astronomical observations" - Paul Davies in Nature “People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations… For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations… You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds… What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.” - George Ellis - W. Wayt Gibbs, “Profile: George F. R. Ellis,” Scientific American, October 1995, Vol. 273, No.4, p. 55
…. My refrigerator sounds just like the Vela pulsar… which makes sense if you figure that it’s a motor driven by magnets… and Vela is spinning so fast that it has a super enormous magnetic field….
The great attractor might just be a huge amalgamation of galaxies, like a very, very collosal one with many black holes all adding to the gravity in that place. By that logic, the longer the great attractor remains, the stronger it will become.
@@ohTreppz that's the "big crunch" hypothesis for how the universe will end (and likely restart), I believe there is a PBS spacetime video about the different hypothesized likely scenarios for the distant future of our universe and the evidence for each. You may want to check it out!
But Shapley is a Greater Attractor. In comparison, the Great Attractor is pretty small, but we'd already named it before we realised it wasn't that great.
That's what I love most about the sciences. The frank admission that no, we don't know everything and that everything we think we know is subject to change but only as more accurate data becomes available. "I don't want to believe, I want to _know_ ." Carl Sagan
Hey Alex, even though it will still take several years, i hope you'll be still around on RU-vid to report on all the discoveries the James Webb Space Telescope will reveal. This definetely is my favourite Astronomy Channel, and I'm always eager to watch your videos. Keep it up!
I just hope that by the time they get the thing out there, they actually have the latest technology on the JW telescope, because they keep pushing the due date back year after year. Because once it's launched, we won't be able to swap out parts like we can with many other telescopes.
This is either inspiring me to think of some huge force beyond our comprehension or a sense of nihilism that no matter what we do we will probably end up compacted into a black hole. I can't figure out which one to feel.
People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations… For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations… You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds… What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.” - George Ellis - W. Wayt Gibbs, “Profile: George F. R. Ellis,” Scientific American, October 1995, Vol. 273, No.4, p. 55
@@akamemurasame4527 Paranoid, ignorance spread...you say. What consequence? Isnt Humanity from a creatonist background? I'm looking I'm looking... what have they done? Seem not to believe in Natural Evolution, so tell how did Mankind or any Animals survive without vaccines? I am still alive as Many who dont shoot themselves up with Pharm industries chemicals :)
@@Guppyg53 _"You dont ever just have an emotion?"_ Emotions can be a very valuable tool. But one person's apparent negative reaction to being comparatively small is always able to be contrasted with others who feel a positive reaction to being able to witness their place in the cosmos. Size is indeed relative.
If you do not want to be limited to a meat suit then give up the things of the flesh. Turn your back on your carnality. Stop giving into the desires of the flesh. Otherwise you will die with it.
@@Vicorcivius why? How would that accomplish anything? You could indulge in as many carnal desires as you want and then abandon your meat suit if the technology advances in your lifetime. Why make your meat suit existence unnecessary miserable?
@@christopherareed Since nobody knows the grammar yet, we'll have to experiment a lot, right? Humans as lab rats is par for the course for naive materialists.
Does anyone else feel like when they see videos such as the one at 4:47 that the universe from a certain perspective looks uncannily similar to animated diagrams of the inside of the human brain? What if galaxies and the supermassive blackholes at the centre of them are ways of transferring information across the universe really quickly, like neurons in the brain transmitting electrical information around to different parts of our brain that are responsible for how we think, move, breathe feel pain etc. Really makes me think when I see stuff like this…
What if we are a disease in this brain and all the things that are attempting to destroy us e.g asteroids are just the immune response to us. Very cool thought though!
space science be having me hardcore theory crafting. Like for the last 30 minutes I've been looking at the paused video making thinking to myself about how this all works out and where this ends.
Laniakea has denser parts to it and now combine hundreds of those and merge the super-massive black holes they all had at their cores and now we have something as as the great attractor
1:01 It's incorrect to imply that all stars in a gallaxy are bound by the gravity of the supermassive black hole in the center. They are not. It's the combined gravity of the gallaxy (including the dark matter) that keeps them together, not the supermassive black hole in the center. Some gallaxies don't even have a supermassive black hole, as far as we know.
I too love the aspect of humanity that craves to better understand the nature and mechanics of the universe that we are a part of. I only wish we didn't also have such savage disregard for the incredible world we live on. At this point, we have to regard it as quite possibly unique within our entire galaxy, and maybe far beyond that.
Great video as always~ Could you also make a video explaining how the scientists manage to map the galaxy cause it pretty interesting and mind boggling how they manage to do the tremendous work with technology we have now....
I'm 40 yrs old & thinking about the cosmos & the possibility of it being a collected consciousness is so fascinating to me it feels so rite. In the simplest terms, we all come from the same place. Everything that's alive. Religion was made to build walls between us. Everything is made to build walls between us, everything has to have a label. You get tired of bullsh t as you start to get older. You realize time is your most valuable commodity & its running short, fast. From afar looking down at an ocean its immense, it's vast , it looks the same forever. Maybe we're like drops of water displaced from our ocean for a short time but eventually we make it back. Back into the infinite. In 2013 I had an nde from an allergic reaction to some medication I took & all I can remember saying to myself over & over was "oh my God, I'm out of my body but I am still just me." That revelation was so profound, so incredible, shocking. It was more than that though my senses felt hyper focused, this energy of awareness I would say, but nothing compared to the light, holy sh t it just made me forget about anything else. I didn't see any beings or anything like that at all I just remember what I felt. I just remember saying over & over to myself in thought " oh thank you, oh thank you, oh thank you." because I was so overwhelmed with a feeling of immense love. I couldn't think of anything else it was that powerful. There was no "oh you gotta go back now kiddo" or something else. I just can't recall after that. Ive been told I dreamed it or it was a delusional occurance while unconscious. I can understand a skeptics point of view, I have no anger in me about that. I don't fear death at all tho now because I realized it is an illusion just like everything else. Much love.
Thank you for acknowledging that we have much to learn. Many channels are just falling into the "golden age of we know everything far better than we ever did before". Our sensors are far better than they ever have been, but what we are discovering indicates that we are just at the beginning of our understanding.
The Great Attractor is an endgame zone, we are only level 15 humanoids. Gotta grind some more and put some additional points in the "Space" research tree, so we can maybe get close to reaching it and get some new extra-terrestrial loot.
I still think the big crunch is the end result (followed by another big bang). Gravity is the most bizarre force. It doesn't need a "fuel" to work. It never quits. And it is incredibly patient. Oh, and it always wins.
My thinking is that time travel is just following an extreme curvature of spacetime that meets itself in the past. Therefore, one could only end up at time or place that also contains the time machine. So you'd still be bound by gravity. It's not a teleporter that can send you anywhere anytime. And anyway, with expanding space there is no consistent coordinate system one could employ anyway.
Thanks for another great space video. When my universe seems out of control, there's something that "attracts" me to the wonder beyond my own inner chaos and out into space.
Correction/clarification at 1:01: All stars in galaxies orbit the galactic center of mass. While the SMBH is located at the center, it only directly affects a relatively small portion of the galactic radius (only some portion of the galactic bulge, and certainly not the disk).
@@vitas75 I have the idea of galaxies being formed with a bunch of globular clusters, being attracted to a central globular that went into being a SMBH. Clusters get stretched and that's why they have, spiral disc shapes. Globular ends up being an arm of the spiral, and Magellanic cloud, could be one of those arms but wasn't affected yet.
@@VeronicaGorositoMusic Mapping of the Magellanic clouds reveal the presence of galactic bars and highly distorted spiral arms so they were once dwarf spiral galaxies of their own the LMC is even fairly close in mass to the mass of the Triangulum Galaxy(M33) at a mass of 1 e+10 solar masses compared to M33's mass of 5 e+10 solar masses making it definitively the fourth largest member of the Local group. Its contorted nature is due to gravitational interactions with the SMC and more recently the Milky Way
The universe is just a single cell in somebody’s body... we are all bacteria, and we ourselves have a universe inside us... and our bacteria have a universe inside them.🤔 maybe lol
@@jetpackjohnny6601 dude i think of this all the time like the universe just keeps going we are but pieces of a piece of a piece of some giant creature or something living in his own world and just goes on and on.
Yes, in the same way that some nebulas look like an eye's iris or the filaments of these galaxy streams resemble a nervous system. Scale is ultimately relative.
To me, the patterns resemble synaptic connections in the brain . . . perhaps the universe is just the brain of God. We are what He's (She/It) thinkin' of. . . . for the moment (in His/Her/It's perspective, that is).
Where's my damn spacecraft that allows me to take a Sunday cruise throughout the universe whenever I want to get away from the grind of everyday life !!??
Models of the universe dont tell us much about its shape in reality. That's purely the observable universe. We simply dont have enough context to really talk about the shape of the overall universe. The universe could be 2, 3, 4, 100x bigger then the observable universe. Just in the last decade we upped the galaxy count from 200 billion, to 2 TRILLION. And again, that's just what we can see.
@Spud Chuffington jones thanks teach. Completely meaningless but thanks. I'll make sure to formalize and proofread my RU-vid comments like a college final. Since you obviously couldnt understand what I was saying and auto correct is not a thing.
Oh yes I'm the Great attractor (ooh ooh) Pretending I'm doing well (ooh ooh) My need is such I attract too much I'm something but no one can tell Oh yes I'm the Great attractor (ooh ooh) Adrift in a cluster of my own (ooh ooh) I play the game but to my real shame the Shapley attracts a lot more
What's the point??? The point is why not learn about how incredible our existence and the universe actually is. Love your videos, great imaging and information.
Is it possible that there is a "thing" that is an insulator of gravity? Be it time, or energy distance, or something else. A property, or many, undiscovered? Where below a certain "flow value" of what we consider "mass", once insulated from, gravity and particle interaction occurs still, but is un-reflective on our "plane" and into semi-curved-planar mode, but just that skerrik below infinite? Yet the gravitational side is as a node-point (a more complicated thing than a singular "mass" byword, and can be tilted itself from our 3-5 dimensional viewpoint?) Not time, just flow of gravity on our expectations of. Not entropic, or merely flow redirective, but not looping or continuous state loss ? Many things to look into
@@mousermind I have to keep a very open mind on the nature of reality, and the strange corners and juxtapositions I may touch with and upon it. Happy learnings mate!
the more we are discovering new things about the universe, the more we are realising how little we know about it. but the thought of undiscovered things , curiosity of whats at the end of universe really keeps my mind so going ! ☺️
You have to admit, with the timescale of the universe, and how short human lifespans are... we've figured out some seriously amazing things. Edit: this why I'm pretty sure all insanely advanced super civilizations are by AI. Or rather, all sentient races more than likely eventually are either taken over by AI, or become AI to live forever. AI and robotic forms seem to be the true path of advancement and progress, as biological forms simply are too frail and have such short time-frames.
That is somewhat inaccurate as while they are indeed not satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and are only on their first pass of the Milky Way. More recent observations of the LMC have revealed it to be far more massive than they used to think 1 e+10 solar masses and likewise our own Milky way turns out to be far more massive that we used to think. Because of the revised masses the gravitational attraction is too strong for the Magellanic clouds to be able to continue on their trajectory. Since the SMC is bound to the LMC this means the pair are getting captured by the Milky Ways Gravity and so they will eventually collide billions of years from now. Already the early stages of tidal stripping are occurring as the LMC unfortunately passed too close to our galaxy in order to remain free
Astronomy and science in general still fascinate me ever since childhood. Maybe the more we understand about the universe, the more we will understand about why we are here. One thing I do not understand is why some of us tiny humans still think they are the center of it all.
I believe that is all perspective... on one side we see where everything seems to originate, and on the other side, we see where everything seems to go... so the universe moves like a river and we seem to be in the middle, where everything seems to move a bit slower
LOL. Scientists don't have answers, just incorrect theories. They need to get their heads out of their asses. For a bunch of brilliant guys, they can be pretty stupid.
@@richardmarcus3340 How do you think scientists should figure it out? Launch a rocket ship and just fly over to it? I'd love to hear how they should "get their heads out of their asses".
@@HistaMeero No rockets required. All they have to do is question everything they know. That's what scientists are supposed to do. Eventually they'll see where the mistakes have been made and know how to better interpret their observations.
@@TheBigSlugger that's not vague at all. Real scientists should always question what they think they know. People were burned on the stake for questioning the excepted science of their time. Acting like you understand everything is the greatest pitfall in science.
I swear that on a couple occasions doing while I was doing salvia I could feel the spin of the earth, now most would just dismiss that due to the drug but it happened in the same manner more than once with the same feeling. My theory is that our bodies actually do feel the movement of the earth and universe and that information is somewhere deep in our unconscious minds because its so immensely overwhelming that we would essentially be non-functional if it wasn't filtered out of our sensory perception. Anyways just thought it was interesting that you had a similar experience and although there is no proof whether our feelings were real in any degree, I have an intuition that says our brains receive a lot more information than our normal everyday perception would seem to show us and that the physical movement of the universe is perhaps a force that our biology has learned to filter out for us to certain degrees to make our day to day tasks easier. Anyways stay spinning friend!
I don't have an insatiable appetite for knowledge. Merely to wonder and be genuinely amazed at things I can't grasp or totally understand is suffice for me.
I think you were right the first time. The great repeller is an illusion by being a focal point through which the universe pushes matter away from itself just like the great attractor and supermassive black holes are focal points of kinetic energy of the universe until matter is accelerated to the point of being broken up into elementary particles ( electrons, up quarks , down quarks, neutrinos, positrons, gluons) and subsequently into indivisible , superluminal fundamental particles. The trabeculated structure of the universe is reflective of the load bearing reaction of the universe to the net " outward " push of all the matter in it giving the illusion of a gravitational force.
This video is a lot of nonsense. No, we are not moving toward the Great Attractor. According to the redshift data, we are moving away from it at a speed of 4,700 km/s. That's slightly slower than the speed than you would predict based on the Hubble constant and the expansion of the universe. Only galaxy clusters are gravitationally bound, not superclusters. So gravity is not an issue as far as the Great Attractor goes. There is nothing at the Great Attractor to attract anything. It is simply the center of mass of the Laniakea Supercluster. But that leaves us with the mystery of why superclusters exist at all.
Huh? The fact that they ARE distinguishable is part of the biggest problem/question in physics, the search for the so-called "theory of everything". The problem is that the largest scales seem to play by completely different rules (general relativity) than the smallest scales (quantum mechanics), rules which are not consistent with one another. If they were indistinguishable, then the same theory could properly describe them both, and we would have no need to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity (i.e. a "theory of everything"). But they are distinguishable, mutually exclusive/inconsistent even, and so we cannot describe them by the same theory, and thus the need to reconcile these two respective theories.
@@nrspinelli we are in what? The quantum scale? We most certainly are not. The quantum scale behaves completely differently than the macro scale, its not about zooming, it plays by rules that cannot apply to macro-scale gravitational phenomena and visa versa. If you apply quantum mechanical rules to gravity, you get spurious singularities everywhere. They are extremely distinguishable, which is precisely the problem: they are so radically different, we don't know how to reconcile them.
@@enaidealukal9203 IMO we are quantum. We are all potentials. Each decision is spontaneous. When we are aware that we are being observed, we change our behaviour, we "do" something. The answer to the debate whether we have free will or are destined is: "both" - We have a path and we also have free will (which is where the quantum aspect comes in).
@@nrspinelli Yeah sorry but this pure crackpottery. We cannot be quantum in yours or anyone elses "opinion", we are not quantum objects as a matter of fact and definition, opinions are not in it. And quantum mechanics pertains to the behavior of matter on microscopic scales, and is described very specific mathematical models. While we are obviously composed/built up from matter on that scale, we are macrosopic objects, and do not behave in the manner that quantum objects do: we do not have uncertainty relations, we do not form interference patterns with ourselves, and so on. And thus the problem: matter on the tiniest scales like photons and electrons and gluons and quarks obey a different set of rules (QM) than matter on the scale of organisms like humans, planets, stars, galaxies (GR), etc.
Hello, nice videos you make! I have been thinking outside the box lately in regards of the "settled science/cosmology", I have been studying the Electric Universe theory and also watching Thunderbolts Project channel on RU-vid. For me, the Electric Universe makes much more sense then all this "unknown" particles, energies and forces. Do you know about this Electric Universe theory?
Check out Suspicious Observers, and watch their recent three part series, if you're interested in Plasma Cosmology. It is quietly morphing in the background at the university level. They just can't change it too fast, without looking like the made mistakes.
If you think that, then sorry to be blunt but you need to read a lot more on the standart theory and the history of its creation. The electric universe is an insult to all the great minds that collectively push your understanding of the universe.
You really ought to get a proper founding in physics before you allow yourself to be seduced by such interesting but ultimately scientifically invalid hypotheses. You have no sound basis for critical analysis without this understanding. You need to know what's "in the box" before you wander outside of it.
_"For me, the Electric Universe makes much more sense then all this "unknown" particles, energies and forces."_ Can you even explain how the very little you know about physics is enough to proclaim such a sweeping opinion?
It's important to remember that some scientists have a tendency to state what really is only speculation as PROVEN FACT..question"authority" in all forms!
i wonder what would happen if we were able move all the military budgets in the world to research and tech development...the possibilities. screw love: make science, not war!
$686.1 billion this year for defense in America. $21.21 billion on space stuff. About 150 billion goes into technology r&d. Throwing money at stuff works, but not as fast as we'd wish.
