Exploding eggs and the Galactic Web
Posted: 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
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
