Supervoids: The Absolutely VAST Empty Parts of the Universe

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
  • Explore the universe’s vast cosmic voids, where nothingness defies cosmic laws. Dive deep into the mysteries of these immense empty spaces and uncover the secrets they hold.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 404

  • @ski364
    @ski364 19 днів тому +49

    The void of the UA-cam algorithm looks back, and smiles favorably upon Fact Boy's offering.

  • @markcentral
    @markcentral 19 днів тому +152

    There's no problem having voids in this one universe, because as Feynman said -- I don't care if you don't like it, You're not going to tell nature how she's going to be. If it's worrying to people that it violates popular theories, then I regret to inform you that it's the theory that should be revised or thrown out

    • @dianapennepacker6854
      @dianapennepacker6854 19 днів тому

      There isn't a single real scientist out there that does not know this. They all know we are missing stuff. Like over 80% is the usual number for dark matter/energy alone.
      A lot of experiments trying to test out why that is, and theroies trying to rule out where our errors occured, and how to detect the unknown.
      It is a large task requiring billions of dollars with researchers across the world being dedicated to just detect theortical particles and other things like this.
      Eventually till we can get the math right where our simulations can fit observations. (And the theroy of everything would be nice)
      James Webb is the right direction. We will get there as we get better sensors, and advance.
      Hopefully AI reaearch can lead us there too.

    • @Forsworcen
      @Forsworcen 19 днів тому +6

      Ironically, giant voids would be exactly what we would see if multiple universes exist and one of them smacked into us at one point. It would push everything out of the way.
      Unfortunately, even these voids aren’t quite empty enough to be that sort of evidence though… 😢

    • @vince7207
      @vince7207 19 днів тому +9

      I like the theory that black holes could house universes themselves.

    • @Forsworcen
      @Forsworcen 18 днів тому +6

      @@vince7207I personally enjoy that as well. It makes the fine-tuning argument meaningless. Natural selection would preferentially benefit universes with more black hole formations leading to the one we’re currently in. Making it not strange at all that our universe is has fine-tuned physical properties

    • @SeeingBackward
      @SeeingBackward 18 днів тому +2

      @@vince7207 Me too. As soon as I heard about the CMB, I assumed it was an event horizon from the inside. Lately I've been working through an understanding that it is simply a "frame of reference" which make a universe and density of the "frames of reference" in one location of spacetime creates gravity by differences of sidereal counts of rotations (like gear differentials), which would allow 3D space to be effectively limitless but scales of too small (quantum) or too fast (relativisitic) are literally 'outside' of 'our' universe, and we can only 'weakly' feel the effects.

  • @TylerAult
    @TylerAult 19 днів тому +29

    This episode is exceptionally good! Flawless narration & enthralling visuals.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 19 днів тому +95

    The empty parts of the Whistlerverse: *XPLRD...*

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 19 днів тому +7

      I forgot he started that one 😂

    • @robertreid2002
      @robertreid2002 19 днів тому +8

      Because we don't like vowels

    • @glennrugar9248
      @glennrugar9248 19 днів тому +14

      Science Unbound... Highlight History...

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 19 днів тому +2

      @@glennrugar9248 highlight history at least has content lol

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 19 днів тому +6

      @@glennrugar9248 so does science Unbound. Xplrd has literally no content as of this morning when I checked 🤣

  • @doomsdayprophecies1739
    @doomsdayprophecies1739 19 днів тому +29

    I came across one of your channels a few months ago. Then something else interesting shows up in my feed and damn isn’t if it isn’t that same dude from the other channel, then another channel, then another channel. Thanks for the hours of information I actually trust. As you know, this is UA-cam, so anything you watch, verify and if it’s titled, James Webb Destroys Big Bang Theory, maybe move on, not maybe, move the eff on! The things I love about your channels, you don’t clickbait and you’re honest about the subject matter.
    Total Respect Simon, nice job and same to the writers and support people, combined you guys make outstanding media!

    • @rustythecrown9317
      @rustythecrown9317 18 днів тому +1

      There are a few glitches here and there , but yeah , by and large this channel rocks.

    • @yvindwestersund9720
      @yvindwestersund9720 18 днів тому +2

      ​@@rustythecrown9317yeah some proofreading would be good but byand large it's just minor faults so yeah
      Unlike some of the other channels here on UA-cam where click bate is a given and then it is followed up with false information and lies so yo gotta choose your information carefully
      Just saying 🇳🇴

    • @DTredecim
      @DTredecim 17 днів тому +3

      As you explore more of Simon's channels keep in mind that when he does get click-baity it is almost always meant as a joke that goes with the video thematically.

    • @techmaster9123
      @techmaster9123 17 днів тому +1

      The gravity of simonverse draws everyone towards his channels, sooner or later... welcome aboard, soldier

    • @Spoodabandit
      @Spoodabandit 17 днів тому

      @@DTredecim or they put out the click bait titles knowing it’ll get clicks and the ai known as “Simon” LOVES clicks 😅😂

  • @CastleTechLock
    @CastleTechLock 19 днів тому +9

    Once more, Simon is on point! - just massive; not to mention while not a map of the cosmos exactly this episode gets quite granular on the cosmic scale - beautiful. 🔥

  • @melektaus2906
    @melektaus2906 18 днів тому +13

    How many friggin channels does this guy have? You can’t throw a stick on UA-cam without him narrating something

    • @Ehuzarskizekiel
      @Ehuzarskizekiel 10 днів тому +3

      Is there a issue or a problem with it

    • @HereBeDragonsYT
      @HereBeDragonsYT 7 днів тому

      The answer is exactly 1 shitload

    • @darkangel5672
      @darkangel5672 2 дні тому

      @@Ehuzarskizekielno problem, it’s impressive actually

    • @balzehalze1352
      @balzehalze1352 17 хвилин тому

      The hardest working man on UA-cam.

  • @KesselRunner606
    @KesselRunner606 19 днів тому +9

    Yes, they are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not yet explained everything.
    _G'Kar_
    _Babylon 5_

    • @timradde4328
      @timradde4328 18 днів тому

      Nicely done.

    • @762rk95tp
      @762rk95tp 18 днів тому +1

      The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements. Energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest.

    • @mikeguilmette776
      @mikeguilmette776 12 днів тому

      I remember that episode . . .

  • @turtleboy4111
    @turtleboy4111 19 днів тому +10

    Awesome, always love a good Astrographics episode. Thank you, Simon, and team!

  • @sinjin8576
    @sinjin8576 19 днів тому +41

    Average Bethesda map building

  • @UltimaMan
    @UltimaMan День тому

    I have never seen or heard of this channel, but this video is genuinely fantastic. I can't wait to watch more, thank you!

  • @KamaGivson
    @KamaGivson 19 днів тому +9

    The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

  • @DasE30Cuz
    @DasE30Cuz 19 днів тому +60

    "The local hole" was the well earned nickname I gave my ex.

  • @religionoffreedom
    @religionoffreedom 15 днів тому +1

    I couldn’t avoid this video

  • @ldsiverling
    @ldsiverling 18 днів тому +2

    Supervoids. Like the space between my ears.

  • @peter.wilson
    @peter.wilson 18 днів тому +12

    Mega-parsec (3.3M light years) is an astronomical term but most people have some notion of light years. We are 4 light years from our nearest star, our galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter, we are about 2.5 million light years from Andromeda (our most significant galactic neighbour), our super-galaxy cluster (100K+ galaxies) is 500M light years in diameter, and the universe is 93 billion years wide.

    • @yvindwestersund9720
      @yvindwestersund9720 18 днів тому +1

      If you would be nitpicking it is actually 3.26 light years not 3.3 but on the scales were talking about that onl😢gets significant in large scale computations
      And the 93 billion light years is of the observable universe it is probably much larger than what we can see at the moment
      And the distance to Andromeda is also a bit of a challenge some say that the distance is 2.3 million some say 2.6 million but that is mostly because of how you measure it from the senter ore the edge of it
      Some science also seems to suggest that the outer edges of Andromeda and the milkyway is already in contact because of the size of the galaxies their halos are most likely already touching and the interplay and the gasses and other detritus have been mingling for eons already
      And it will only get better from her on out there is no living creature ore its descendents that will be able to see thus happen but through science we know it will happen and that's why science is so fuckin awesome
      Not like these dumdums that thinks the earth is flat and when you ask them for some proof they say trust me 😂😂 yeah right that's what I'm gonna do 😂😂
      Science is the backbone of everything I tells us what happened what is happening and what is going to happen

    • @tommonk7651
      @tommonk7651 14 днів тому +2

      Another nitpick: the observable universe is 93 billion light years wide. The actual universe is likely much, much larger….

    • @mikeguilmette776
      @mikeguilmette776 12 днів тому

      @@yvindwestersund9720 3.262 ly 😜

    • @sonofbr
      @sonofbr 4 дні тому

      @@yvindwestersund9720 If you would be nitpicking, "ore" is a naturally occurring rock or sediment that contains valuable minerals that can be mined and seems out of place in this context.
      Also. It is customary to end sentences with a ".".

    • @yvindwestersund9720
      @yvindwestersund9720 3 години тому

      @@sonofbr shure you write about this in my native language and I'll try and do what you want me to

  • @Jcs57
    @Jcs57 19 днів тому +12

    Saying it breaks the laws of cosmology is like saying it breaks the laws of speculation. Thanks to new instruments scientists are learning more at a faster rate so change in understanding is to be expected.

    • @captain_context9991
      @captain_context9991 14 днів тому

      The main point is... Whenever scientists say this or that "should not exist", its them that is wrong. Not the universe. But also... There is no such thing as a "void" or super voids. Its 100% a complete misconception from the 80s before we knew what galactic filaments were. Now that we have known what galactic filaments are for a couple of decades, its ridiculous to keep creating clickbait and "mystery" around non-existant voids. Claiming they are out there is pure misinformation.

  • @stevensiwinski
    @stevensiwinski 19 днів тому +4

    Voids have always intrigued me.

  • @TinchoX
    @TinchoX 19 днів тому +8

    So basically... We are Voidlings!

  • @SmashBrosAssemble
    @SmashBrosAssemble 19 днів тому +20

    “Containing absolutely nothing. Could you imagine that Nothing?, no light no dark no up no down, no life, no time without end.” ~ The Doctor

    • @TaeSunWoo
      @TaeSunWoo 7 днів тому +1

      14th Doctor mentioned? 💅🗣️✨

    • @SmashBrosAssemble
      @SmashBrosAssemble 7 днів тому

      @@TaeSunWoo
      No, this quote is by the 10th Doctor

    • @TaeSunWoo
      @TaeSunWoo 7 днів тому

      @@SmashBrosAssemble didn’t he say something similar in Wild Blue Yonder?

  • @fuseblower8128
    @fuseblower8128 19 днів тому +14

    No wonder the aliens haven't contacted us yet. We're in the backwater part of the universe 😆

    • @thomasmcnamara5929
      @thomasmcnamara5929 17 днів тому +1

      That would be an answer to the Fermi paradox as well as an excellent idea for a sci-fi story.

    • @DukeOfJam7591
      @DukeOfJam7591 6 днів тому

      DBZA Freeza: "I can't believe we flew all the way out to the space boonies for nothing! They don't even have a Space Radio Shack, much less a Space Best Buy-Buy-Buy- Circuit City"

  • @therevelistmovement4683
    @therevelistmovement4683 19 днів тому +5

    So, we exist on a ball, with other balls, flying around another ball, with *other* balls, in a big whirlpool, in a hole, in a web?

  • @dougwalker4944
    @dougwalker4944 19 днів тому +4

    ...The Unfashionable End of the Western Spiral Arm...

  • @goosenotmaverick1156
    @goosenotmaverick1156 19 днів тому +7

    Maybe the void was neccesary to allow life to evolve in a less interupted way than it otherwise would be, if it wasnt in one of these voids. Stability seems to be a major key in the overall development of, well.... us.

    • @djunior874
      @djunior874 19 днів тому +1

      This comment made me feel better

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 19 днів тому +2

      @djunior874 seems like a logical explanation for us residing within one. Life barely made it through some of what it went through as it is, and this technically could be considered not only a void, but an area of relative calm, I would think. Comparatively of course.
      Interesting to think about, to say the least.

    • @PossumKommander
      @PossumKommander 17 днів тому

      I was just thinking this, maybe being in the void keeps us safe from the greater dangers of the universe.

  • @FIGHTER8max
    @FIGHTER8max 15 днів тому +1

    When somebody says that something massive within the universe "should not exist", then and only then should you consider that there is something that is beyond our comprehension.

  • @lionelarucy4735
    @lionelarucy4735 17 днів тому +1

    Ah yes, another channel yet discovered. This man is a machine 😅

  • @pooryorick831
    @pooryorick831 19 днів тому +5

    Even where there's nothing, there's still something. Besides, nothing itself is still something. 😁✌🏻

  • @KennethBulwer
    @KennethBulwer 19 днів тому +4

    Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  • @illogicmath
    @illogicmath 19 днів тому +2

    Astonishing

  • @daniellestepien9062
    @daniellestepien9062 18 днів тому +1

    Yay-i found a new Simon channel! Well, new to me. His web of channels is so vast, it spreads across the internet universe, like filaments of matter 😂

    • @tommonk7651
      @tommonk7651 14 днів тому

      He’s trying to fill the void with channels….

  • @thegrr1346
    @thegrr1346 19 днів тому +2

    Off in The Void they will find multiple UA-cam channels and Simon will be talking about everything there is.

  • @MrTryAnotherOne
    @MrTryAnotherOne 18 днів тому +1

    The KBC Void is the quarantine zone around Earth. All fun aside:
    Maybe voids should be seen as remnants of bubbles (i.e. like balloons) and all the galactic matter was pushed to the bounderies by explosions (matter / anti-matter).

  • @420nerdgirl
    @420nerdgirl 11 днів тому +1

    i just got dumped and my coping mechanism is binge watching every simon video

    • @NeedlessJ93
      @NeedlessJ93 6 днів тому +1

      Stay strong and just watch Simon. I'm sure they were a jerk anyway.

  • @rudejase
    @rudejase 19 днів тому +11

    guys, I prayed to God and he just got back to me. You're gonna kick yourselves... He said the holes are there because he hasn't finished the universe yet.

    • @mybutthasteeth1347
      @mybutthasteeth1347 16 днів тому

      Damn universe was released in an uncompleted state. To industry is really suffering

    • @Thescrantondude
      @Thescrantondude 16 днів тому

      Prayed to who?

    • @rudejase
      @rudejase 15 днів тому

      @@Thescrantondude y'know.. the guy in the sky.

    • @Sanquinity
      @Sanquinity 15 днів тому +1

      ​@@rudejasewhich one? There's thousands of them.

  • @Knsy
    @Knsy 19 днів тому +2

    13:25 anyone else seeing a blue portrait of a chucky doll at the centre of that galactic picture

    • @holyassbutts
      @holyassbutts 18 днів тому

      No! Not Chucky! Anything but Chucky! I hate Chucky! I... Hate... Chuckyyyyyy 😭

  • @ldfox11
    @ldfox11 18 днів тому +1

    Just recently discovered, voids in space were created by giant exploding stars. The closest void to earth was created by a star going nova, and clearing a space of 16 million light years across.

    • @SitInTheShayd
      @SitInTheShayd 17 днів тому

      Can you post a link to this discovery? I'd like to read about it!

    • @ldfox11
      @ldfox11 17 днів тому

      @@SitInTheShayd ua-cam.com/video/uVgYWlgfisk/v-deo.html

  • @lostpoundpuppy
    @lostpoundpuppy 19 днів тому +4

    *Stares at Simon as he pronounces 'Laniakea' multiple ways...* xD

    • @rhd75
      @rhd75 19 днів тому +3

      His pronunciation of Canes and Boötes was off too.

    • @jorgelotr3752
      @jorgelotr3752 17 днів тому +1

      @@rhd75 yeah, that thing above the second o is there so that you don't read it like "boot".

    • @lostpoundpuppy
      @lostpoundpuppy 16 днів тому

      @@rhd75 I didn't feel like editing. xD
      Also I adore the goofball, so I didn't want to come down too hard on him. xD

    • @lostpoundpuppy
      @lostpoundpuppy 16 днів тому

      @@jorgelotr3752 Apparently it's supposed to be pronounced boo-oh-teez. I pronounce it Boh-oh-teez instead. Like Zoh-Ah-logy for zoology, not Zoo-ah-logy. xD

    • @jorgelotr3752
      @jorgelotr3752 16 днів тому

      @@lostpoundpuppy ​ according to wikipedia, boh-OH-teez and zoo-OL-ə-jee (UK)/zoh-OL-ə-jee (US) respectively.
      The first pronunciation (the one at hand) clearly indicates that the ¨ is telling us to just read each o individually, which was what I was getting at.

  • @sheldonwheaton881
    @sheldonwheaton881 17 днів тому

    Neutrinos were one of my favorite things to think about while tripping!

  • @chrislong3938
    @chrislong3938 14 днів тому

    I had a dream the other night where I was out in space by myself with no suit or anything. I was just floating out there.
    I could look 'down' or 'up' and all I could see were oceans of stars that went on to infinity in every direction.
    I couldn't even see the Milky Way's galactic bulge for reference!
    It was VERY alarming and I woke up in a slight panic!
    It was weird and cool all at the same time and the bonus is that I can remember it clearly!

  • @NovaDeb
    @NovaDeb 17 днів тому

    Very interesting!

  • @stancil83
    @stancil83 19 днів тому +2

    The spatial dimension is the only commonality I can see. Gravity seems to go through changes on the extreme large end dealing with Galactic clusters and supervoids and then at the Quantum level.

  • @AuntieTrichome
    @AuntieTrichome 19 днів тому +1

    Interesting as usual. Certainly as my void knowledge doesn’t go further than Temple of Void, Void Rot, Void Witch.

  • @neondystopian
    @neondystopian 14 днів тому

    Voids have always intrigued me. I've always wanted to go there and see what was in it. I mean, I know that it's mostly nothing, but imagine all the cold, ancient dead things that still reside there. I bet it would be fascinating.

    • @BrandonDenny-we1rw
      @BrandonDenny-we1rw 9 днів тому

      Mostly rocks ice and frozen mushroom spores.
      Some strains of bacteria that breakdown to basic life enzymes.
      Mostly rocks and ice.
      Most life ends up inside black holes sadly

  • @chancecherry6055
    @chancecherry6055 18 днів тому +1

    new simon channel dropped

  • @HeathenHammer80
    @HeathenHammer80 19 днів тому +2

    It’s probably a good thing that we live in a sparsely populated area of the universe. Otherwise we would be bombarded by cosmic rays constantly.

  • @CuritisHowell
    @CuritisHowell 19 днів тому +2

    Her fragrance of choice was fresh garlic.

  • @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88
    @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 19 днів тому +4

    Giant voids really aren't that unexpected. Think of a gentle babbling brook. Every now and again the chaotic nature of liquids means the waves of energy/motion will create air bubbles on the surface of the water.
    The chaotic motion during inflation will inevitably lead to areas of denser concentrations of matter. This movement will impart momentum and draw material away from some place, creating less dense areas.
    Finally, as stars, black holes and galaxies pop into the mix the energy they radiate will further push material away. Leaving a couple galaxies floating in the voids.
    Fast forward to today and the voids have grown so immense it seems impossible. But at one point in the past things were much closer. Plus, there are other inconsistencies in the early universe that point to different levels of inflation. So we have yet to show if there may have been slightly different values to the equations that may point to why these things can grow so massive, and just when they started or how quickly they grew and at what stage did that change in growth occur.

    • @watcher805
      @watcher805 19 днів тому

      Well thanks for that existential crisis 😅

  • @shanewallace2564
    @shanewallace2564 17 днів тому

    There was actually an observation recently that could help explain how these happen. The JWST spotted a couple of quasar that collided several million light years away from us and they wiped out everything around them for about 100 light years. Void created

  • @michaelstreeter3125
    @michaelstreeter3125 16 днів тому

    I knew about voids, but TIL I'm in one! The local hole 600 Mpc radius around us. Still, plenty of matter to go around. Onwards to Mars and the stars.

  • @agentcooper6361
    @agentcooper6361 10 днів тому

    This is probably why complex life evolved here. Anywhere else is too busy to allow life to progress peacefully. Yet another factor in favor of the rare earth hypothesis.

  • @colonelradec5956
    @colonelradec5956 13 днів тому

    To me it's the scariest mystery. Something absolutely caused it. It's not just some quirk. Not that we could do anything anyways so not scary in that sense but just that it can happen and how.

  • @Joseph55220
    @Joseph55220 19 днів тому +1

    At 16:50 - the reason we wouldn't have realized that there weren't other galaxies until the 1960s if the milky way was in the center of the Bootes void isn't because we would have been so far that their light would not have reached us or anything like that - but because they would have been so far away that our early telescopes would not have been able to resolve them as galaxies - they would have merely looked like distant stars... that was his point. Just for clarification

    • @Joseph55220
      @Joseph55220 19 днів тому

      And it's not exactly a true conjecture. The Bootes void DOES contain galaxies (like all voids), they are just very sparsely populated... so it is possible that someone would have spotted one of the few galaxies out there and made the realization... or perhaps not. If it were not for Andromeda or the Magellanic Clouds - we probably would not have spent nearly the amount of time or energy innovating our telescopic technology as we did once we realized - there's A LOT of crazy stuff happening way, way out there.

    • @Joseph55220
      @Joseph55220 19 днів тому

      You could very easily make the conjecture that, absent a moon (or especially absent other exoplanets in our solar system), it would have taken humans a LOT longer to piece things together. Perhaps, we'd still not understand the Sun is at the center of the solar system (actually, absent the moon, the Earth probably wouldn't support life seeing as the tidal effects of the moon are chiefly responsible for keeping the core molten and the magnetosphere and ionosphere doing their jobs to make our little blue ball habitable... so, yeah, let's not start deleting the moon.

  • @robertanderson809
    @robertanderson809 15 днів тому

    If particles pop into existence, symmetry points to inverses; anti mass, anti-matter. A bulging inverse outside the gravity dots of matter, shoving stellar masses into strings around the bulges.

  • @ZZ-sb8os
    @ZZ-sb8os 15 днів тому

    love it, could you do a video on The Great Attractor next please?

  • @jorgelotr3752
    @jorgelotr3752 17 днів тому +1

    5:30 the ¨ over the second o means that both os must be pronouced separatedly (like in "cooperation", also spelled "co-operation" or, more to the pint at hand, "coöperation").

  • @umadbra
    @umadbra 11 днів тому

    There's a starman waiting in the sky
    He'd like to come and meet us
    But he thinks he'd blow our minds
    There's a starman waiting in the sky
    He's told us not to blow it
    'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
    RIP DB

  • @Flight_of_Icarus
    @Flight_of_Icarus 13 днів тому

    When I was taking an astronomy course, the concept of nothing fascinated me. After all, if there truly was nothing between the stars, they'd all be on top of each other. There's always something, even if that something is stupidly thin. Still, I wonder just how thin that something can get, and why.

  • @stancil83
    @stancil83 19 днів тому +2

    Domino's missed a pretty good marketing idea. They should have tried to buy naming rights or whatever. And name one of them voids. The Niod. hehe. Golden Age of American TV commercials.

  • @henrysinclair5914
    @henrysinclair5914 10 днів тому

    given the microwave backgourd this is exactly what would be expecting

  • @JamieAlice92
    @JamieAlice92 19 днів тому +4

    Wizards did it

  • @WonderLure42
    @WonderLure42 14 днів тому

    Science is basically this: “this is what we know until we know more. stay tuned.”

  • @Hitchpster
    @Hitchpster 18 днів тому

    I find it uplifting rather than depressing. If a seemingly dark and gloomy void includes our green and blue earth and gorgeous Milky Way, then that makes any Lovecraftian flight of fancy about the darkness of the universe quite unnecessary, while it also bolsters the soft anthropic principle that we couldn't possibly exist in our shape and form in a much more crowded, lighter, hotter, more chaotic area of the universe.

  • @4362mont
    @4362mont 16 днів тому

    Intro sounds like a passage from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

  • @Marisa_arts
    @Marisa_arts 5 днів тому

    268.901 septoduocillion Light-year radius. That is what I think a minimal size of our universe is, unless the Galaxy is MASSIVE, in just Weight, then we are creating a ring around us. Which is scary, which means. We are technically the center of the universe.

  • @alargefarva4274
    @alargefarva4274 9 днів тому +1

    New Simon channel?? Sign me up👍🏻

  • @frequentuser360
    @frequentuser360 19 днів тому +2

    I've heard a statistic that said if you shoot off into space and continue going until the edge of the universe (if you were able to do such a thing) the chances of you running into anything, assuming you are not making an effort to hit it, are zero. As in, empty space is so large despite the number of galaxies and stars and planets and rocks and whatever, you're just never going to hit anything. Can anyone help me source this or is it just wrong?

    • @MrBizteck
      @MrBizteck 8 днів тому

      Not ZERO but very remote. There is a simulation of a shop going 3000 times the speed of light right through the center of the galaxy. ( Avoiding the black hole ofc)
      But they didn't hit anything.

  • @csuree87
    @csuree87 19 днів тому +2

    I was always an advocate of the "expanding universe" perspective might be because we're in a void and everything is being pulled away from us.

  • @PaulFenwick-t4x
    @PaulFenwick-t4x 19 днів тому

    It's my humble opinion that our verse rotates "like a galaxy" around the centre.
    Physics tells me that.the largest to the smallest all work the same

  • @Liminal-Galaxy-System6819
    @Liminal-Galaxy-System6819 6 днів тому

    Oh yeah I’m a grade A nihilist. Knowing that nothing matters is my nature state of being, especially when I think of space.

  • @HandyMan657
    @HandyMan657 19 днів тому +6

    Simon, how much of this information do you retain? Thanks for the upload, Crew. Take care.

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 19 днів тому +5

      As proven by some of his other videos, very little. It's usually only mentioned on the more casual style channels like Brain Blaze, but it does get brought up fairly regularly that he forgets most of it.
      "In the eyes, out the mouth" is a phrase I believe I've heard him use in regards to this particular subject 😂

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 19 днів тому +1

      Not much. He's said himself that it goes in through the eyes and out through the mouth. Just saying....

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 19 днів тому +1

      @@Hillbilly001 me and you; same page 🤣

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 19 днів тому

      @@goosenotmaverick1156 I saw that. Long time visitor to the Whistlerverse I am. LOL!! Cheers

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 19 днів тому +2

      @Hillbilly001 same here! The number of hours I've watched Simon's face, is probably a shamefully high number 🤣
      Cheers!

  • @liamglasel
    @liamglasel 19 днів тому +2

    ANOTHER CHANNEL IN THE WHISTLER UNIVERSE??
    hoooooly gigachad 🎉

  • @Flight_of_Icarus
    @Flight_of_Icarus 13 днів тому

    When I was taking an astronomy course, the concept of nothing fascinated me. After all, if there truly was nothing between the stars, they'd all be on top of each other. There's always something, even if that something is stupidly thin. Still, I wonder just how thin that something can get, and why. Why can these portions of space exist where individual particles are so far apart, yet the fabric of space still wraps around them?

  • @maximilliansummers3725
    @maximilliansummers3725 17 днів тому

    I take this as evidence of alien intelligence. Knowing what we know about humans, I'd want to isolate them from the rest of the universe too

  • @sonofbr
    @sonofbr 4 дні тому

    Some voids are type 3 civilizations that have Dyson Spheres encompassing galaxy super clusters.

  • @Totttty55
    @Totttty55 9 днів тому

    14b years really just doesn't seem long enough with current ideas on how all this stuff happened.

  • @leafykille
    @leafykille 16 днів тому

    The grand structure of the universe looks like the pattern of dust on the hood of a van after a bit of rain.

    • @BrandonDenny-we1rw
      @BrandonDenny-we1rw 9 днів тому

      I always thought it looked more like a vast nervous system branching out to smaller numerous limbs

  • @timradde4328
    @timradde4328 18 днів тому +1

    Some alien species is clearing "space" to make room for a new mall. :)

  • @WAHegle91
    @WAHegle91 18 днів тому

    *Hits blunt*
    What if a higher power or being put us in an empty void because it knew that we would eventually become a threat?

  • @Enigma1336
    @Enigma1336 16 днів тому

    Imagine if there is a hyper advanced alien race that just travels around and consumes full super clusters of galaxies for all their energy.

  • @CyberdyneSystems435
    @CyberdyneSystems435 18 днів тому

    The void will consume all its consumers.

  • @harlequinems
    @harlequinems 18 днів тому

    I get worried when SCIENTISTS, supposedly the smartest people amongst us, look at something that presents to them solid and repeatable data, and proclaim "that shouldn't happen! It's against the laws of (insert science here)".
    When the thought process really should be "we should look at how this new data transforms what we think is Law"
    "Arrogance, leads to ignorance, leads to decay" - Yoda, or something

  • @josephjroy6593
    @josephjroy6593 19 днів тому

    Simon Whistler is the singularity of UA-cam presenters.

  • @carlw8072
    @carlw8072 16 днів тому

    Probably where huge black holes devoured everything around them, then collapsed leaving nothing behind.

    • @MrBizteck
      @MrBizteck 8 днів тому

      Thing is black holes don't actually swallow that much. 99% of the matter is thrown back out to space

  • @philippvoid1800
    @philippvoid1800 9 днів тому +1

    lol. wasnt subscribed to this channel yet. hard to keep track ;p

  • @NetanelZZZ
    @NetanelZZZ 19 днів тому +2

    Also, yes, with Simon's picture on half the screen, it feels less robotic IMHO. You might want to make Simon a little smaller and the subject a bit better, (02:49 for example}

    • @KevinCook-y4p
      @KevinCook-y4p 19 днів тому +1

      That’s weird. I’m opposite. It gets way MORE robotic-seeming whenever S1MON appears onscreen.
      Look at those mechanical, jerky hand motions and dead, lifeless eyes. The clipped, metallic diction. Lifelike, but ultimately, not confusingly so.

    • @daduzadude1547
      @daduzadude1547 19 днів тому +1

      @@KevinCook-y4pnah. That’s just his disguise slipping…
      We all know he’s a leeezard people

  • @CosmicVoidKBC
    @CosmicVoidKBC 18 днів тому

    yay an episode about me

  • @mineduck3050
    @mineduck3050 19 днів тому

    Sounds like an optical effect of the Doppler effect being flawed at describing cosmic distance.

  • @paulford9120
    @paulford9120 16 днів тому

    In other words, we have a lot more to learn about our universe.

  • @Sethermiester
    @Sethermiester 18 днів тому

    So we are in the backwoods of the universe. No wonder no one visits us.

  • @bryaninphnx
    @bryaninphnx 18 днів тому

    It’s quite literally a crisis in cosmology

  • @boyblue5320
    @boyblue5320 19 днів тому

    I like this...i hope im able to get it

  • @deucedaprodeuca
    @deucedaprodeuca 18 днів тому

    And here i was thinking "the Local Hole" was a song by Sexy Red. 😆

  • @Tommy-Tom-Tom
    @Tommy-Tom-Tom 19 днів тому +1

    Audio on this one is very rough. Please adjust EQ. Sibilance is pretty extreme.

  • @anthonyfrost8925
    @anthonyfrost8925 17 днів тому

    My theory is early black holes that have managed to draw in all the gas that they can effect in regards to there gravity.

  • @joshpysadee7681
    @joshpysadee7681 19 днів тому +2

    Here's a thought, space acts like a fluid right, what if the superclusters drift like "galactic continents" and the voids are the open spaces similar to oceans. The assumption would then be that there is something driving a "current" in which the separations are made. Gravity can account for the entire structure moving together as well as the exotic matter driving the current would account for why matte doesn't drift in and out of the voids

    • @trevinbeattie4888
      @trevinbeattie4888 19 днів тому +1

      I think space is more like pulled taffy.

    • @watcher805
      @watcher805 19 днів тому

      ​@@trevinbeattie4888that's actually a pretty good analogy, though the universe actually seems to *gain* mass, not just stretch out what it has thinner and thinner.

  • @velvetine74
    @velvetine74 19 днів тому

    Honestly when you think about it all as a matter of perspective our entire universe could just be a vegetable on an aliens kitchen table about to be thrown into a pot, It just takes 10 billion years for the alien to pick us up because they exist on a different scale.

  • @michaelmcchesney6645
    @michaelmcchesney6645 19 днів тому

    While supervoids are probably affected by dark matter, I wonder if they have become so large because of dark energy. Dark energy is the name given to the unknown force that is causing the universe to expand at increasing rates. We don't know what dark energy is or really how it causes universe expansion. What if the universe expands faster in areas without matter? That could conceivably be responsible for super voids. What if spacetime expands faster if less mass is present. As I understand it, gravity does counteract expansion. That's not what I mean. I am wondering if there is also more dark energy/dark energy is more powerful in some inverse ratio to the proportion of mass present. I'm a recovering lawyer, not an astrophysicist, and this is just speculation on my part. OK, I did take Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Bronx High School of Science and got 6 college credits for the course. But that was almost 40 years ago, and nobody knew that the expansion of the universe was increasing back then.

  • @bajablaster1
    @bajablaster1 18 днів тому

    It’s the Covenant

  • @davidelliott5843
    @davidelliott5843 11 днів тому

    How is it these voids are more or less spherical? What is it that keeps them so neatly round?

  • @cat22_a1
    @cat22_a1 19 днів тому +1

    Simon: did you forget about the Great Attracter?