Video: Simulation Renders Entire Known Universe

James Cameron eat your heart out.

Great work to the guys who made this video, and to the scientific society, too.
This is like the Power of Ten and Inside a Cell videos, they will stick with you for the rest of you life!

Thanks PopSci.

Nice animation for the masses, but in reality, your camera would have to be capable of trillions + shutter speed to eliminate the blur of suns. If we should ever achieve a speed to go 13 + billion light-years in 6 + minutes..

Awesome video, very humbling.

If u can think of something, I beleive it will always be in the limit of the laws of physic, rendering any idea possible, atleast, from a technological way.

Hmmmm... why didn't I see god in that vid... I suppose I might want to make a recalibration on his distance from Earth.

I love these kinds of videos! Our near space is very cluttered!

In the grand scheme of things, we've only just stepped out the front door of our house. Incredible, no wonder we have yet to find neighbors.

@Alderman

The video wasn't created to show exactly what it would look like if a video camera were to actually speed through 13+ billion light years of space in 6 minutes. Besides, wouldn't the lines that connected the constellations be kinda "fake" looking. I mean, the lines are there only to show people which constellations they are. There aren't any real lines. Nor the lines signifying the orbits of the planets around the sun.

Get a grip man, it's an educational video. It's not meant to be anything more than that.

How useful would a video be if it's all blurry and white from the stars and from over exposure of light into the lens of the camera???

Did you even think about what you were saying before you said it?

Boring, disappointing, too much empty space, too many lines and concentric circles with no celestial bodies that blow you away, not even mundane let alone awesome. If this is the entire universe, we really came up empty. An infinite expanse of nothing punctuated by this one Goldilocks planet.

This appears to be American made, probably with more than a small fraction of funds being tax dollars. So then why does the simulation begin and end in Red China?

God.... deny it.... can't do it.... God.

Woh, I saw my house! My mind is officially blown. It is satisfied and is now going to sleep.

Nice. But I have seen better video mapping the universe on youtube. The cheesy atmospheric music doesn't help either. There is one set to Pink Floyd that blows this video out of the water. It's better with scale and graphics than this as well.

That was cool! I wonder, did Neil deGrasse Tyson work on that? I am a huge fan of Nova.

What I find facinating is the magnitude of what has already been mapped! And there are two quarters that have yet to be started. Science has been able tp accurately place half of this universe within a spherical location. Yeah, God. But look at what man has accomplished since Galileo in the early 17th century. That's just 400 +/- years, folks. And now the robots are going out to finish up the process. This is heavy stuff, no matter which video simulation you've seen!

Great! Now make it HD and remove the lines.

Excellent perspective on relative size.
Speaking of relative, my Grandma just finished watching it
and said: while it was big "it was not as big as I thought it would be".

I guess I'll just have to upgrade my old 17" screen. :)

I enjoyed this video, it was very cool, it would have been alot better in HD. I just dont agree with the "light from the big bang"...God created all of this, lets give him the credit.

It's the total perspective vortex.

42 man.

Okay. But check out "The Created Cosmos" video. It is light years better and with great narration.

I will have to watch this the next time I have an "issue" with someone.

6 minutes for our complete out ward, macro perceptions,
I just wished they would have taken another minute for the Soil micro & nano.

They could of had it all

Power of Ten

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Finally! A very bright man has created a visual representation of Monty Python's "The Galaxy Song". "...cause there's bugger-all down here on earth."

Have you guys never been to the planetarium?
We went there on a class trip in middle school.
They show these videos from a dome ceiling and it looks like
you are traveling through space. But more then that it
is in fact a teaching tool and shows the placements of all the stars, planets, and such.
As for the quality of the flick...
It's built for precision not star wars.

@raho

AWESOME! I was thinking the same thing! Douglas Adams gave us so much... such a pity he is not here to see this, I think he would have really enjoyed it.

Oh yes...that was very good...and to think just how many kinds of life is out there! Marry Chirst-mass may the blessings of The Uncreated one in Yahshuas name be with you all....You Too E.T.

And to think we are living breathing Star Dust...with a Soul...

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Machines can travel free trough virtual space and time, drawing a picture of reality for us. Or is it also just an illusion, produced by machines within their limits, as we were wrong in the past. However, we are people and we have developed tools to help us imagine reality, from ever growing mountain of data. Those will change the picture, and complement it by slowly filling unknown void, but only if we will never stop wondering what is reality and what are we. Machines will not do that, because we can answer most of those questions for them.
At the end of the path, simulation reveals a very interesting shape of reality, probably quite different from what majority expected. Comparison with a black hole seems interesting to me because light is coming all around us at the same speed. But the black hole should have distinctive border and universe doesn't, because it's not an object in object.
Simulation would be even more interesting if they could add relative motion of objects, how they changed over time and perhaps if patern of objects can continue beyond what we can observe and how would that look like? Is universe as whole, in reference to the center point of Big bang, at rest or in motion in some direction and if so, how would speed affect what we can observe.
It's full of stars, ...and planets, ...and life, but no mater how long and hard we search, we will never find another one quite like our Earth.

Serious question here -

"At that end of the universe lies the oldest material in creation, which, thanks to billions of years of expansion, has accelerated to almost the speed of light."

The engineer in me says that if anything one would expect things to slow down. Is there some mechanism which I am unaware?

Thanks!

Hey V3rtigo. Maybe you didn't see God in the film because there is NO God in the film. Maybe the authors are non-believers but didn't think that it was necessary to insult those that do believe by saying so. Not everyone sees the world through your Bible filter. If you believe, good for you. Your arrogance though, is a LARGE part of what is wrong with this world. God induced arrogance begets God induced ignorance. You and your kind amaze me because you are so arrogant that you can justify ignoring, belittling, punishing, and murdering those that don't believe in Your Version of God; just as many believers in God (not your version) would do the same to you.

OK, Creationists over here, those who believe in God but are not Creationists over there, everyone else in the middle. Now discuss among your own groups. Personally, I see this as a neat, sort of science-based view of the known universe in six minutes. It was informative, fun and kinda cool. Like PinkNBlack21 says, we just stepped out of our front door. We have a lot of looking around to do. Why argue about things we don't know about? And no, Creationists, you do not "know" any more than we do. Belief and faith are not knowledge. They are belief and faith. So chill out and enjoy.

@ jack_of_hearts

That would be one of the key questions facing modern physics right now. Edwin Hubble established the idea of a constant rate at which objects further from us are traveling away from us at a faster rate in 1929. Of course, we're not the center of the universe and, as more modern observations proved, the entire universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. There are many theories about what's behind this acceleration, but they all have their flaws and, for the most part, can't yet be proven with observation.

Funnily enough, when it comes to how it's moving, the universe seems to defy its own laws of thermodynamics! Or, of course, it's equally possible the laws are at work at there are forces we just don't know about yet.

@ Observer

I'm a devout believer and, for the record, the Bereshit (your creation) is a beautiful, wonderful piece of allegory that if taken literally, loses that luster. If one approaches the "Biblical creation" from a scientific perspective as nothing more than a literary piece, then there's a lot of amazing information to be gleaned from it (like the description of the "scientific creation" that is followed chronologically in the creation story).

In all honesty, it is beyond pomposity to come out of nowhere and say that, because you have "faith" in your idea, it should be taken with the same degree of credibility as an idea that has not only been developed over the last three-thousand years of science, but has actually been observed just from looking at the sky.

amazing video, breathtaking, humbling, thanks for creating & posting it .....

If Carl Sagan were alive today I believe that he would highly approve! Outstanding and thank you for posting it!

No surprises here. I am sure the universe is endless which is almost hard to comprehend in itself. It is amazing how far technology is moving and what we can now see that was not possible even ten years ago. The video is very cool!!
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Wow, this is, wow.

I'm watching it 3 times. XD

coooooooool~~ mom!!

Cool video, the animation is really interesting, the most beautiful part for me is starting at 3:56. This is coooOOooll!!

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Very great video, I like it very much, now I can understand more about universal.
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Very impressive. There is a lot of empty space in there :)

Very impressive. There is a lot of empty space in there :)
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