{"id":377,"date":"2011-01-02T22:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T03:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=377"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:25","slug":"across-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/01\/across-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever wondered what the entire universe looks like, I can refer you to some stunning video illustrations, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=74IsySs3RGU\">this one<\/a>.\u00a0 One thing to keep in mind when viewing simulations like this is that your point-of-view zooms around at impossibly high speeds, far faster than anything even <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warp_drive_(Star_Trek)#Warp_velocities\">Star Trek<\/a><\/em> writers dared to consider.\u00a0 So allow some artistic license.<\/p>\n<p>In 1911, Albert Einstein applied his theory of general relativity to calculate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein#Academic_career\">how gravity bends light rays<\/a>.\u00a0 One hundred years later &#8212; thanks to new satellite observations, extensions of his theories and computing power &#8212; we have a much better appreciation of our place in the cosmos.\u00a0 Now, if we can only get this living-together-peacefully thing down, Einstein might think we accomplished something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever wondered what the entire universe looks like, I can refer you to some stunning video illustrations, including this one.\u00a0 One thing to keep in mind when viewing simulations like this is that your point-of-view zooms around at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/01\/across-the-universe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}