The "Cosmic Web" is the term for the structure of the Universe in the highest scale we can imagine, a three dimensional network of galaxies. Lots of images online, so I won't put one up here.
A YouTube channel, the SloMo Guys, specialises in slow motion photography, and in a recent video showed eggs being exploded by having bullets shot through them. Yes, I know, weird. But what struck me was the appearance of the exploding egg white, as it had a very similar appearance. The Web is expanding, ever since the Big Bang, and held together by gravity forms into the filaments. Likewise as the egg explodes, it expands into a network of filaments. I presume that viscosity and surface tension holds it together. Could this be a useful model?
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgjyPmFKxCU
John
Exploding eggs and the Galactic Web
- Fred the Cat
- Theoretic Apothekitty
- Posts: 975
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:09 pm
- AKA: Ron
- Location: Eagle, Idaho
Re: Exploding eggs and the Galactic Web
If you put two eggs very close together, their surfaces exhibit patterns currently being explored.JohnD wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 10:41 am The "Cosmic Web" is the term for the structure of the Universe in the highest scale we can imagine, a three dimensional network of galaxies. Lots of images online, so I won't put one up here.
A YouTube channel, the SloMo Guys, specialises in slow motion photography, and in a recent video showed eggs being exploded by having bullets shot through them. Yes, I know, weird. But what struck me was the appearance of the exploding egg white, as it had a very similar appearance. The Web is expanding, ever since the Big Bang, and held together by gravity forms into the filaments. Likewise as the egg explodes, it expands into a network of filaments. I presume that viscosity and surface tension holds it together. Could this be a useful model?
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgjyPmFKxCU
John
![thumb up :thumb_up:](./images/smilies/thumb_up.gif)
But I wouldn’t put all my eggs in that basket quite yet.
![No. :no:](./images/smilies/no.gif)
"...That means everything — protons, electrons, even actions like cracking an egg — would be reversed. Antiprotons and positively charged electrons would make up atoms, while eggs would un-crack and make their way back inside chickens. Eventually, that universe would shrink down, presumably to a singularity, before expanding out into our own universe..."
Freddy's Felicity "Only ascertain as a cat box survivor"