Now, if You have taken advanced physics you will kinda understand this and it will be all trippy.

and here is Episode 2

ah man. thats actually really sweet.

lol vouch that

Now, this is science!

Thanks for the post, and thank you for keeping this forum alive!

i dont like how they dont explain the very beginning part. the part where the uncertainty principle expands into the universe. all it states is the tiny glob of matter expands into the universe...
id be intrigued if anyone can explain this further

This post was edited by Kamikizzle on May 7 2009 02:49pm

The actual explanation of that is pretty complicated -- I'll give you a brief summary of it (only because I myself don't understand it further). According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, these things called Virtual Particles (the small little sphere inside of the cube that the video showed) are a pair of particles (one positive, one negative) that can exist in our plane of reality for a VERY short period of time (So even if there is a vacuum, VP's exist and then disappear again in and out of nothingness) . These particles have some of the properties of real matter, and so for the brief period of time, they break the laws of the conservation of energy. The bigger the particle, the less period of time it exists for, and if in that period of time, it is observed (since we can't actually observe it, we mean interact with it in this case), it cannot be virtual anymore by the laws of quantum mechanics.

Thus, the theory with the big bang, is that before the big bang many of the VP's came in and out of our plane of reality -- and some how as the super dense ball formed and then exploded, these VP's were split from their respective pairs and thus permanently came into our plane of reality.

I agree, the video didn't link topics too well, but hope this helped some.

What got me, was the idea, that... out of nothing, spawned something, and out of something, the entire universe was formed...

Thats just awesome.

Now what I dont get, is where its talking about how we can see things traveling faster than the speed of light. now from what I understand, the Universe is what? 14.7 billion years or (or something in that area) and they where saying we could see things that where 41billion lightyears away, to me, that seems impossible because of how long light has had to get here, regardless of how far away the object in question is, we are still seeing light from 14.7 billion years ago, not the 41 billion years that this was saying.

If anyone could explain this a bit?

The explanation that I've heard before from my physics teacher (which, may or may not be valid, but he is pretty educated on modern physics) is that during the big bang, space itself moved. So its like saying you're walking in a train, you walk at 2mph while the train is moving at 60 mph. Even though you are only moving at 2 mph, the train is also moving and therefore, to someone standing outside of the train you are infact moving at 62 mph.

That being the case, space itself rippled and so we have objects moving faster than the speed of light without breaking any laws.

very interesting