Applejuiceinthehall
Applejuiceinthehall t1_iujo2la wrote
Reply to comment by BadSanna in Jared Leto fucking sucks by angery-monkey
I think he does alright in fight club
Applejuiceinthehall t1_iuej0z8 wrote
Reply to Please explain in simple words by Tatti_luck
>As you said space expands f>I know as a fact that the expansion of space is faster than the speed of light. But how do we know that?
We know that space is expanding faster because of the dipper effect. You probably are most familiar with how a siren sounds differently to you if it's approaching or moving away from you. Well light has that effect too. So we see that the light is shifted to the moving away from us. The objects farther away from us has a greater shift in their light than closer objects. So that's how we know it's moving faster than
>How do we know that the observable universe is 90 billion light years across. Wouldn’t it take 45 billion light years for the light to reach us? (assuming we are at the center for argument sake) If the universe itself is 14 billion years old, wouldn’t we have to wait another 31 billion years to know the space expanded?
When the light left galaxies, they were 14 billion light years away but now they are 46 billion light years away.
Try to imagine you are standing on a road in front of you every meter there is a person standing, behind you there is also a person every meter. The road starts to expand so now there is an extra meter between every person. So the person 1 meter in front of you is now 2 meters in front of you. The person that was 10 meters from you is now 20 meters away.
Put another way the farther away someone is the faster they appeared to move despite no one moving at all
Now imagine there a car on the road as it sets out we know how far away the destination but as they arrive at their destination we see that it takes longer than it should have because the road expanded while they were moving. Some destinations are so far the car won't ever reach it no matter how fast they go.
If a similar car was coming towards us and we could observe (we couldnt) it would appear like the car was moving away from us even though it's clearly moving towards us.
So for your questions even though the light was emitted 13.8 billion years ago the space between where it was emitted and where we are has expanded since that time and they are 46 billion light years away.
Applejuiceinthehall t1_itw3v8k wrote
Reply to comment by 4realfix in LPT: if you're hungry I don't have a lot of money, by pasta. by DivvySUCKS
I find tomato and cucumber salads don't need lettuce
Applejuiceinthehall t1_isu7mgb wrote
Reply to comment by Phillyredsox in LPT: If you're planning to apply for/accept Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness, be aware that some states may TAX it as income! by Anachronisticpoet
Don't let the tail wag the dog.
Applejuiceinthehall t1_iuk17yo wrote
Reply to comment by Devadander in Current climate pledges have us heading for a world that is 2.4 to 2.6°C hotter, says UN report - no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place by BattlemechJohnBrown
We don't really know when the feedback will trigger right now the likely range to trigger feedback/tippinqg points us 2.5-4 degrees.
So yes could happen at 2.5 but might not.
Additionally, even though this report is negative, if you looked at the predictions from the early 2000s, we are doing better than expected.
We want to be realistic but also not nihilistic. Nihilism is just as dangerous as denialism.
Russia is kinda forcing a lot of countries to become more energy independent, and that will require renewables and nuclear