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ok, so after my other thread i have decided to create another one, this time leaving out religion and politics; So to carry on from the other thread, if there are any space/time travel geeks out there, then this is the thread for you.
One mention of religion and i'll ban myself :razz: :nono:
I actually worked this out quite a few years ago...
Our galaxy, the milky way is 100.000 light years across, from edge to edge, (1 light year equals how far light can travel in one direction in 1 year and light travels at 186.000 miles a second, for those that don't know) Our nearest neighbouring galaxy is Andromeda which is 2.2 million light years away.
Now if you scale our Galaxy down to 1 inch then Andromeda would be over 1 mile away.
In the image below you will see a diagram of roughly what our galaxy is like and position of us in it, for scale purposes, the point that shows our sun is our entire solar system included in that little dot.
Took me about 4 days to work that out, scaling everything down.
Now imagine that the edge of the known universe is roughly 13 billion light years away... thats a big place.
Tenubracon
And how big would a crunchie be?
Splog
Oooops, back to the calculator SOL 186,300 per second ... Andromeda 2.5 million LYs ..
One mention of religion and i'll ban myself :razz: :nono:
I actually worked this out quite a few years ago...
Our galaxy, the milky way is 100.000 light years across, from edge to edge, (1 light year equals how far light can travel in one direction in 1 year and light travels at 186.000 miles a second, for those that don't know) Our nearest neighbouring galaxy is Andromeda which is 2.2 million light years away.
Now if you scale our Galaxy down to 1 inch then Andromeda would be over 1 mile away.
In the image below you will see a diagram of roughly what our galaxy is like and position of us in it, for scale purposes, the point that shows our sun is our entire solar system included in that little dot.
Took me about 4 days to work that out, scaling everything down.
Now imagine that the edge of the known universe is roughly 13 billion light years away... thats a big place.
Tenubracon
Anyhoo! ... Back to space stuff before it gets locked
If our Solar System was the size of a CD then our Galaxy the Milky Way would be about the size of the Earth
And how big would a crunchie be?
Splog
Originally Posted by Lunaticsamurai
I actually worked this out quite a few years ago...
Our galaxy, the milky way is 100.000 light years across, from edge to edge, (1 light year equals how far light can travel in one direction in 1 year and light travels at 186.000 miles a second, for those that don't know) Our nearest neighbouring galaxy is Andromeda which is 2.2 million light years away.
Now if you scale our Galaxy down to 1 inch then Andromeda would be over 1 mile away.
Took me about 4 days to work that out, scaling everything down.
Now imagine that the edge of the known universe is roughly 13 billion light years away... thats a big place.
Oooops, back to the calculator SOL 186,300 per second ... Andromeda 2.5 million LYs ..