Worm Holes

Jamie23 said:
Any chance you could explain this a bit please? Sounds interesting.
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Many telescopes that take pictures of places in space use a different frequency on the light spectrum than the visible light that we see.

You have radio, x-ray, ultra violet telescopes etc our eyes can not process an image from it. So computers convert the image to a visible light image for us to see it. It usually comes out looking spectacular though :)

This is very brief but should be enough for you to know why it won't look like the pictures if we saw it with our own eyes.
 
mattjd said:
Many telescopes that take pictures of places in space use a different frequency on the light spectrum than the visible light that we see.

You have radio, x-ray, ultra violet telescopes etc our eyes can not process an image from it. So computers convert the image to a visible light image for us to see it. It usually comes out looking spectacular though :)

This is very brief but should be enough for you to know why it won't look like the pictures if we saw it with our own eyes.
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This. There is also some pictures where they colour code elements. We're not gonna see that at all.

Space from our own eyes is actually pretty boring. Let's get some bionic cone upgrades.
 
mattjd said:
Many telescopes that take pictures of places in space use a different frequency on the light spectrum than the visible light that we see.

You have radio, x-ray, ultra violet telescopes etc our eyes can not process an image from it. So computers convert the image to a visible light image for us to see it. It usually comes out looking spectacular though :)

This is very brief but should be enough for you to know why it won't look like the pictures if we saw it with our own eyes.
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Ah ok, thank you very much.
 
steve45 said:
**Cough** getting the thread back on track.
I think i'd like to get view of the eagle nebula (pillars of creation) they really are a thing of beauty.
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Besides what was mentioned about the false colour images, I'm afraid I must be the first to inform you that the Pillars of Creation no longer actually exist.

The only place you are ever going to see them is from a long way off. Apparently you can currently see the supernova that is getting ready to wreck their **** from earth.



Personally, I would like to go into a void, the space between galaxy clusters.
 
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Except you can't travel fast enough to catch up with the light. Your best bet would be to look for a reflection off something.
 
I've just thought of a massive problem.
Lets say I want to go and see a supernova that is just happening so I go through the wormhole and arrive virtually immediately, the supernova won't be there because it happened million and millions of years ago.
 
There I was salivating at the prospect of a gardening thread in January only to discover we're on about theoretical interstellar travel. Or at least I think we are.
 
Dimple said:
I've just thought of a massive problem.
Lets say I want to go and see a supernova that is just happening so I go through the wormhole and arrive virtually immediately, the supernova won't be there because it happened million and millions of years ago.
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Well, exactly. You wouldn't be able to see (in person) such events unless they were much closer.

Actually maybe you could, if the Cosmic event was big enough and at the right distance then it could last for millions of years so you still might get there to see its final moments.
 
Dimple said:
I've just thought of a massive problem.
Lets say I want to go and see a supernova that is just happening so I go through the wormhole and arrive virtually immediately, the supernova won't be there because it happened million and millions of years ago.
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I would go out on a limb and say that parallel development would probabaly compensate for it. If we could build a ship that can travel ftl to get to the wormhole entry point, be designed to survive the unimaginable conditions likely present in a worm/blackhole, and then be able to actually escape such an enviroment, we would likely be so technically adept that compensation for time wouldn't be a major factor.

As to where I would go? In the short term to "goldilocks" zone planets to see if any have life, and in the more long term other galaxies to observe local conditions. I'm curious if there are any undetected fundemental differences with our own galaxy.
 
From my understanding they do exist however on such a miniscule scale that only the smallest of particals are able to travel through them so unless you were able to scale up the worm hole or scale yourself down to the appropriate size wormhole travel appaers to be impossible!

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simulatorman said:
There I was salivating at the prospect of a gardening thread in January only to discover we're on about theoretical interstellar travel. Or at least I think we are.
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You could be one of them space gardeners like in the film Silent Running :p

I studied Horticulture for a couple of years at college,but i couldn't team up with mr simulatorman as he murdered the rest of the crew members:( lol
 
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