Why the Boötes Void Terrifies Astronomers

[@SenhorTudo]

The void that scares ME the most is the one that exists between some peoples' ears.

[@minacapella8319]

90% of politicians and other people with tons of wealth and power.

[@SenhorTudo]

@@minacapella8319 If only it were only them, but fully 95% of people on Earth just haven't got a clue! As above, so below: most of it is empty!

[@chrislevack405]

*sad trombone*

[@rubenlopez2764]

Corny comment

[@SenhorTudo]

@@rubenlopez2764 The closest some people get to going off with a bang is popping off like corn.

[@cjh.1920]

The fact we’re in a void is probably the reason we get to exist in the first place and haven’t been filtered out by nature yet.

[@markhughes2556]

We're working on it.

[@scottwhallin2461]

He was wrong about that I believe because we are part of a rather large galaxy with one twice as big 2.5 million light yrs away [ Andromeda ] plus their are dwarf galaxies and galaxy clusters all around us. So I don't know what the hell he's talking about.

[@cjh.1920]

@@scottwhallin2461 he meant that we aren’t actually surrounded by a lot when you think about the local group as a whole. As far as intergalactic real-estate is concerned we’re pretty out of the way. We aren’t in a void nearly as significant as Bootes to be sure, but considering what we can see, it’s relatively quite around here. Our solar system is also located in between two of the spiral arms giving us even more peace and quite cosmically speaking.

[@pkf4124]

@@markhughes2556plans are afoot.

[@StarsingerOG]

Also being able to observe the rest of the universe is due to there not being much light interference.

[@iGame3D]

It is where missing socks go.

[@MarkFloyd7451]

You got it!!!

[@lynkirby7008]

…and the pens

[@morningstar577]

And there's my car keys 😠

[@duewhit310]

The cat knows where they are 😼

[@Steven-lb4bl]

That’s where my get up and go went

[@bigcity2085]

On the atomic level, everything,every piece of matter around you is mostly vast spaces of nothing. "Nothing" abounds....everywhere.

[@scottwhallin2461]

I read that recently as Spock would say Fascinating but then he might say something like : That is the Micro world We exist in the Macro would I don't see the logic of that statement as it does not pertain to our existence.

[@johannjohann6523]

Well sort of true. The "Nothing" is actually magnetic fields that we can't simply see. What makes them is still the mystery. But true, only 7% of the Universe is made up of Atoms. Tesla called space "Ether". And said it is actually "something". Sadly, the government scooped up all of his notes so now we will never know.

[@morbidflorist12]

That is true

[@karensagal8230]

Yes, aren't there 'voids' within the atoms of our bodies?

[@Synthwave89]

​@@karensagal8230like Scott said above, that is the micro world. It's almost a different realm, ruled by possibly different laws than ours (the quantum realm and quantum physics). Relatively speaking planets have lots of matter. Space is where teal emptiness is, interplanetary, interstellar, and intergalactic space is where true empty is. And galactic voids are even more so that.

[@dukeon]

When you stare into the Boötes, the Boötes stares back at you.

[@sexyasiantwink69]

when u stare into the booties...the booties stare back at u....philosophy

[@1ManNamedDan]

I think whatever lives there doesn't want to be stared at or bothered by every emerging child race yelling hello at them in ignorant hillbilly accents.

[@terrainofthought]

That void is no mystery. Enterprise entered the void during one of its charting missions where Captain Jean Luc Piccard and his crew encountered "Nagilum". You guys really need to pay attention to the real physics.

[@davidbrisbane7206]

👍👍👍

[@hilly1122]

The little dudes that live in that dark void in Voyager where those pollution aliens are dumping nuclear waste would love this place!

[@turtlesallthewaydown8831]

They have to watch the historical documentaries

[@fukhue8226]

They still don't realize that the Star Trek Series and Movies are actually Documentaries from our future! Except the :Trouble With Tribbles!

[@fisterB]

Nagilum lived inside a puny void in our galaxy much much much smaller than the Boötes void.

[@Marcel-yu2fw]

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

[@boogathon]

And the speed of light is slow as molasses in January (in the NH, of course). Light takes a hundred thousand years just to cross our ordinary galaxy-and a void 780 million light years across? Fergit about it. That takes way too long.

[@1964catt]

So big that if you lost your cars keys in it they would almost be impossible to find

[@erikdaigle9212]

@@1964catt that's what she said.

[@erikdaigle9212]

@@Marcel-yu2fw some go farther than that to ruin the day.

[@Neast4]

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[@billthevillageidiot4069]

" Nom Nom Nom - well thats 62 megaparsecs of yummy celestial Boötes goodness " , said the cosmic entity as it munched away at the fabric of space and time !

[@scottwhallin2461]

I sensed a sexual conitation there with that Big Booty business.

[@Letsberealish]

We really have no idea what it is we exist in.

[@Sarcasmarkus]

A gigantic Tupperware dish obviously.

[@fredfish4316]

@@Sarcasmarkus Petri dish?

[@Sarcasmarkus]

@@fredfish4316 nice👍

[@chrispbacon002]

The only thing we know is that we really dont know anything

[@Sarcasmarkus]

@@chrispbacon002 are you really epistemically justified in saying you know what others don't know? Or do you only know that you don't know what you don't know and believe others know and don't know the same as you know you don't know?

[@Moodymongul]

The Boötes Void is theorized to have formed from the merger of smaller voids, much like the way in which soap bubbles coalesce to form larger bubbles. This would account for the small number of galaxies that populate a roughly tube-shaped region running through the middle of the void. Also, the picture you often see of the Boötes Void, is not a picture of the void. What is often shown is a very dark gas cloud, a nebula, covering the background stars known as Barnard 68. An actual image of bootes void is not directly observable.

[@erikdaigle9212]

Look at a satellite picture taken at dark of North America, we have big voids and small voids between our cities too. And a web of roads to connect them.

[@Kawaiijihad]

Occam's Razor. Most simple solution/reason, is likely the right one.

[@DavidSquire-t6r]

Does it not make more sense that the void was generated because its matter, over the eons, migrated via gravity to the superclusters which surround it? I understand the desire to attribute it to the currently popular, highly theoretical "dark energy", but...

[@Q-Limited]

Kinda like the still popular big bang that isn't where it's supposed to be and never was... can't make a finite model for an infinite reality, but they continue to try 😂

[@hope4U2Bfree]

I was thinking the same thing. The superclusters had to get that much energy somehow.

[@CandideSchmyles]

The cosmic web has the morphology of a growing living system like a mycelium or a vascular system. It's very strange.

[@xxredshiftxx]

The simulation generator has left it Intentionally blank as part of the algorithm is missing 😁

[@forthehomies7043]

Would be difficult I think for even superclusters to be able to gravitationally attract matter and clear out that big of a diameter that is the void, and it’s not completely empty there are a few galaxies in the Bootes

[@hassanalihusseini1717]

As an introvert I would like to live in Bootes void.

[@shut-up-Beavis]

Go to sleep...

[@hassanalihusseini1717]

@@shut-up-Beavis I did, but I am woke now.

[@queen_crabsnake]

@@hassanalihusseini1717same lol

[@fukhue8226]

I would be comfortable sitting in a lawn chair right in the middle.

[@muskyoxes]

But i'd need a wal mart, and it wouldn't do well there

[@F1ct10n17]

Nothing is more terrifying than a human mind.

[@F1ct10n17]

@leon.1917 I see no alien that can erased entire city and turned it into dust.

[@origenjerome8031]

Nothing is more terrifying than rubbish videos popping up on KZbin just to make money. This video is just a mix of Wikipedia material and gibberish narration with nonsense space animation.

[@F1ct10n17]

@@origenjerome8031 actors on the play just enjoy the show. Music 🎶

[@nathhekzz]

@@F1ct10n17that’s because you can’t see them 🤦

[@F1ct10n17]

@@nathhekzz all I know alien is from another land but now that we are connected do you still believe alien exist? Sure they did exist a foreigner.

[@antonkovalenko364]

FFS, that is Barnard 68. It's a molecular cloud well within the Milky Way at a little over 400ly from us.

[@Skaramine]

But it looks good and correction comments like these boost the algorithm.

[@Bugqueenlily]

Thats not an "empty space", thats barnard 68.

[@Philomats]

Very nice presentation. Thanks for the dreamy material.

[@rincon27weirdoG]

Where God goes when he just wants some peace and quiet

[@annakeye]

Err.., 1:57 is not the Milky Way but appears to be M51 Whirlpool Galaxy.

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

The thumbnail depicts Barnard 68, a dark nebula. In reality you wouldn't even know that the Boötes void was even a void, as you'd still see the galaxies on the other side.

[@lundsweden]

When the gravity was really dense, the weird quantum effects that only occur in a small scale, had an impact on matter in a way not possible now (extremely dense matter affected by quantum fluctuations)

[@CuriouslyMindful]

Thanks for the first, sensible, appropriate response.

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

The quantum fluctuations acted on the expanding spacetime energy long before matter (hydrogen only) had started to condense out.

[@Mrfeedlestickdotcom]

The void is the least of our fears the thing that we should fear is what is beyond the universe...

[@middleofnowhere1313]

Our worst, most immediate foes are here at home.

[@Mrfeedlestickdotcom]

@@middleofnowhere1313 my uncle

[@davidl9232]

Water is attracted to water. It does not make it like magnetic balls. It's fluid and in shifting in attraction to each other, water will take on weird shapes, including ring like shapes. Right?

[@markrushton5108]

To assume there is nothing because we cannot percieve it does not void the possibility of something being there. Clearly, we have much to learn.

[@denisemcdougal6445]

Thank you

[@stompthedragon4010]

Absolutely. That shouldnt even need to be pointed-out by now.

[@marshallsweatherhiking1820]

Empty space does not emit photons. Thats about all we can say. It is not necessarily empty. Extra gravitational bending of nearby starlight even in “dark” areas of space is a mystery. Black holes can’t fully explain it either, thus the hypothetical ”dark matter”.

[@scottwhallin2461]

Maybe the voids have something to do with dark energy

[@BrokenCurtain]

Nothing terrifies anglophone astronomers more than an umlaut.

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

But Boötes has no umlaut. That, my friend, is a dieresis, and is in fact legal to use in English. For instance, I routinely use it in words like coöperate and reëxamine, as I think it makes a lot more sense than the common approach of inserting a hyphen, as in co-operate and re-examine, or leaving them unmodified, which is unfortunately ambiguous in words like coop (a house for chickens) and coöp (short for coöperative.) Anyway, I said all that to say this: there’s no excuse (short of naïveté) for English-speaking astronomers to be afraid of diacritic marks, because we all write using the same computer hardware!

[@MarionFR]

@@ethanlamoureux5306 I was afraid it's illegal. Thank you.

[@spvillano]

@@ethanlamoureux5306 I don't use them at all. I'm still having trouble finding my any key.

[@stikcler]

blue oöoyster cult

[@stikcler]

I ate sun-dried mayonnaise and now I have dieresis.

[@CandideSchmyles]

Avoid A Void

[@Strideo1]

Avoid the Noid.

[@j.mangum7652]

Shut cho mouf Lloyd.

[@TLowGrrreen]

The Noid should have avoided me. -Adam West.

[@morbidflorist12]

Avoid the Noid kids, he ruins pizzas!

[@ekalbkr]

Yes, AVOID this video!

[@chrisogrady4956]

All this creates a “void” in my mind. I cannot comprehend the vastness of space nor the countless mysteries of God’s universe.

[@sayhitosteve2785]

You are greater than any void. Your mind and eternal spirit is God's gift and beyond priceless.

[@rubenlopez2764]

You really believe you have the mental capacity to pontificate the creator of all that space and matter? That's quite the proclamation.

[@Accelerated45]

Its crazy how absolutely massive God's universe is that we cannot even fit all the information about it in our head, God is truly such an amazing being who created such a complex and humongous universe for us to try to understand and form theories about.

[@plzgetsomesleep]

I'm watching this at 1am and the visuals feels like something I'd see in my dreams/when I'm about to fall asleep

[@randymiller2460]

Summary: we have large gaps in our knowledge of large gaps.

[@markhughes2556]

You haven't been keeping up with the latest developments in Quantum Theory. Now there is a hypothetical particle called the 'gapon'. Unfortunately, when we try to think about gapons, we find ourselves enmeshed in Trans-Hierarchical Recursive Epistemological Entanglement theory, or THREE. It is possible, however, that THREE = ZERO.

[@scottwhallin2461]

Great one indeed Mr Weed

[@HANKHILLFORTXGOVERNOR]

Whats Something ron jeremy has never said?

[@i.r.Buzz_Saw]

@@HANKHILLFORTXGOVERNOR I'm HIV positive

[@sammysam2615]

The most terrifying and dangerous thing is an undisciplined mind

[@ByteMeCompletely]

Like the WNBA?

[@melangellatc1718]

Like a Trump follower?

[@123luoyi]

Always the comments out of video

[@doctorcrankyflaps1724]

@@melangellatc1718 Or anyone believing the Dems are the good guys?

[@Accelerated45]

@@melangellatc1718like someone who follows a woman who can hardly form a sentence without it sounding fucking stupid?

[@FieryFox73]

Finally, someone makes a video longer than 5 minutes covering this extraordinary subject. Thank you my brotha!

[@imho2278]

And repeats themself over and over

[@newfinishautospa]

They say, “the only void larger is the one between your lips” -“Giggitty”

[@sammyhooligan803]

Insignificant yes, but none the less, part of and very unique in an enormous universe.

[@carefulcarpenter]

We don't exist in a simulation--- we live in a synchronistic reality defined by synchronistic mathematics. Empirical evidence of our beingness.

[@quaildogusa]

Hubble did an ultra long exposure and found that the void wasn't void at all.

[@euclideszoto997]

If I remember it found 60 galaxies spread out. That's like finding an object the size of a penny floating in the Pacific ocean and then finding another penny floating in another pacific ocean next to it. Vast emptiness.

[@i.r.Buzz_Saw]

@@euclideszoto997 definition of a void?

[@richardprice8348]

The actual situation in astrophysics is first that we have no proven idea of what dark energy is or whether it even existsand secondly we can't even prove dark matter exist as all of the experiments hus far have been unable to produce even the minutest bit of it. We have now finally shown real evidence that the expansion of the universe is not uniform in all directions and that has also raised very serious questions about some of the basic assumpions about the big bang theory as it is currently understood. When you do your program you should not make assertions about things we are still very uncertain about.

[@prometheus010]

We can actually study the influence of dark energy and dark matter in 3D Euclidean space, in the existence of black hole and cosmic event horizons

[@JerseyLynne]

The whole of cosmology is in over their heads. When you have to create a theory to patch a hole in another theory, you need your head examined. Keep going and you run into absurdity. The Universe is Electric.

[@notmyname4261]

Didn't see any "terrified" astronomers either

[@Q-Limited]

Basically, dark matter is a fudge factor because general relativity falls apart outside of the solar system or systems with similar velocity at least. Basically, when gravitational lensing showed higher than predicted force, instead of saying what's wrong with GR ? They said, " must be an invisible matter present" Sadly, the AI I was using to do the modified calculations that proved it had a digital heart attack at the initial results and now flat out refuses to calculate modified versions of GR 😮 😂

[@JerseyLynne]

Have you seen Rupert Sheldrake's banned TED talk? He goes over scientific assumptions that haven't been proven. He talks about the assumption of uniformity among a dozen or so other things. Very mind stretching.

[@sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317]

Oh what a cosmic web we weave when something something

[@jameswarner3599]

Where I come from, the void is the space behind the fridge. The place where many things fall, but none return.

[@innertubez]

"Void" reminds me of the old Domino's Pizza ad "Avoid the Noid."

[@Kai...999]

Lol wtf. I want some dominos

[@macmaccourt]

0:42 says you. It's significant enough to have life teeming on it, be in the perfect place for every aspect of life as we know it. And for it to be insignificant, life would also be meaningless, which it is not.

[@davidblackburn3396]

Says you. LMAO Life has whatever meaning each of us gives it. Congratulations on totally missing the point.

[@ichidoo8293]

@@davidblackburn3396for real though

[@mikevigliotti3798]

Hey there… I’ve got a bridge to sell you

[@ishzarkklyon9590]

There's a bajillion planets just in this galaxy, and there are a bajillion galaxies just in the visible universe. You really think only ours has life? That's like grabbing a cup of water from the ocean and saying "it has no fish in it, so there must be no fish in the ocean".

[@seanpearce5809]

Your logic is faulty

[@BryieURuncal2023]

What makes you think we're not already in a black hole

[@RoseanneSeason7]

This

[@mike7652]

That would explain the Fermi Paradox (aliens probably aren't gonna go into black holes) and exponential expansion of the universe (relativistic time and all that). That being said, I'm certainly no astrophysicist 😂

[@EskWIRED]

The lack of positive evidence?

[@BryieURuncal2023]

But there can be no evidence you cannot actually go out and explore you have no real evidence of distance only speculation can you find your science keeps dropping you in the ditch but that's okay cuz you don't mind bringing everybody else in with it and make them knuckle under

[@chrispbacon002]

@@EskWIRED you have evidence to argue we aren’t?

[@frankjones4804]

The question is, was it always empty or did someone do something to make it empty?

[@samuelburleigh1895]

Without the void there is nothing ❤

[@hassanalihusseini1717]

Best comment!

[@SenhorTudo]

And within the void there is also nothing, so do the two nothings cancel each other out and leave us with nothing ^2?

[@coreydavis4052]

How did Barnard 68 become the representation of the Booties Void this is a molecular cloud.

[@GrayFox790]

Not as big a void as the one in my wallet! 😂

[@joaquinvasquez7923]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@donaldduck830]

Vote Biden! (or Sunak, or Macron) The economy is roaring, isn't it? The people who got us into this mess are the best and smartest and will surely get us out of this mess, won't they?

[@hassanalihusseini1717]

Do you have a girlfriend?

[@burtharbenson8860]

Hahaha I could start a KZbin channel and never run out of content covering the deep void in my wallet!

[@burtharbenson8860]

@Gabor.P. Biden’s brain is negative mass lol

[@MetatronsCube23]

the voids aren't expanding under any sort of growing "dark matter", material is coalescing via gravity and electricity/magnetism while also expanding. The voids happen naturally. There isn't even a reason to suspect dark matter is real based on any observations. The only cosmologists who are confused by the current data never take electricity or magnetism into account and work solely off gravity based models.

[@markhagnaya8463]

"when your stare into Abby's the Abby's stares back into you"

[@WCDavis-cl7si]

WE HAVE THE MEATS

[@lanceuppercut7640]

I don’t know what that means but it’s funny just the same.

[@Sarcasmarkus]

My peeps👆

[@EudoraMacmillan]

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

[@charlespichan9619]

Maybe these voids seem so big because we are not actually seeing enough of the universe. Maybe on the true scale of the universe these voids are as tiny as our earth, in comparison.

[@stompthedragon4010]

point

[@MarianneOz]

That’s what I think as well. It’s all just a question of scale.

[@LazySillyDog]

On matter being somewhat evenly distributed at large scales, this could actually still be true, the observable universe is just the area of the universe we can detect, we have no idea how much larger the universe actually is. The massive voids could turn out to be statistically insignificant compared to the true size of the universe

[@markthomas9769]

In a shared environment of millions and millions of animals it is ridiculous to assume only one species developed language, culture, art, religion etc. And yet...

[@donaldduck830]

Indeed. It is not as if we did not postulate that advanced civilizations would use the complete energy output of stars or even galaxies. We just don't see something in visible light and voila, we think that there is nothing.

[@SnlDrako]

You not knowing that humans discovered non-human languages (like how other mammals communicate) does not mean that "we" think only humans developed it. Language and culture are not unique to humans. Art and religion arguably is, because, well, those are quite high cognitive functions, and humans are the most cognitive species on Earth, so it's not surprising we developed the best and worst aspects of it first.

[@BuhehtThehub]

​@@SnlDrako “The human mind is potentially the most complex, imaginative and limitless thing in the universe… Until we realize what is telling us that…”

[@SnlDrako]

@@BuhehtThehub Your point being?

[@markthomas9769]

@Gabor.P. Yes. Been there. Yes there is poverty unlike anything in the US. And yes, I've been through Appalachia and the South. Unless you're a pure existentialist information can be "known" indirectly.

[@StormCaster101]

So I'm just a big old dumb dumb, but wouldn't the positive energy of galaxies push each other away akin to putting two magnets against either on the positive side

[@kdubs9111]

Job 38; 18 “Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?”

[@antonjoubert6980]

Omg, you can quote bible versus, no?😮

[@mike7652]

​@@antonjoubert6980They're verses, not "versus", and maybe you should give it a read, no?

[@antonjoubert6980]

@@mike7652 if I wanted to read that crap again I would, don't need zealots quoting it to me in comments

[@kdubs9111]

@@antonjoubert6980 “No one believes in God like an atheist. There is no God and I am his prophet.” - Alan Watts

[@antonjoubert6980]

@@kdubs9111 yeah, more like there is a god and he = us

[@jeffjones7108]

Wait, the universe expands faster in a void? My understanding (limited, admittedly) is that the universe is expanding uniformly at the same rate everywhere. An accelerating rate, but the same rate across the universe. Is that wrong? I could understand how that expansion is masked by the way large bodies are more attracted towards one another than they are responsive to the expansive properties of dark matter, and how that masking would be minimised in voids due to the (relative) lack of gravitational interference. But "masking" the expansion isn't the same as slowing/accelerating the pace, surely? Or am I missing something?

[@shaneobi5181]

These subjects are always interesting to think about but if a person continues to depend fully on the theories of modern science then they will be chasing their tail forever drowning in a sea of theories. Of course science is always quick to magnify an image on a screen, label it in some way then talk endlessly about it like they understand it. These mysterious things were understood many thousands of years ago and described in detail in the oldest books on the planet, but the arrogance of the modern materialist scientists led them to mock the information because it was presented in a strange format that they couldnt understand and it didnt fit into their limited understanding of humanitys past or their viewr of "reality". What we can see or even use instruments to study is one layer of a system a lot older, larger and much more complex than what we have access to. If you reach a point where most of what you discover has to be labelled "Dark Energy" and cant be visually seen or examined with your most sophisticated instruments then common sense should tell you that theres more to this than just our layer of "reality".

[@boogathon]

So what should we do? Take another hit on the bong?

[@terrydunn8540]

a paragraph from a person who hasn't got a clue,stick to playing candy crush

[@ianjones9498]

sky daddy did it

[@terrydunn8540]

@@ianjones9498 and you pronounce all this without a shred of evidence,sources and or qualifications would help.

[@williammendofik2071]

So many words and yet you said nothing.

[@HavianEla]

Consider the utter massiveness of space where something to be considered “close” is still billions of miles away, I’m a bit confused as to why a void so large would truly be considered strange? Though I’m no physician, so I’m probably over simplifying an extremely complex issue. If someone who knows what I’m getting at and has an answer, I’d appreciate it!

[@michaelblankenau6598]

My mind dwarfs the Bootes Void by many orders of magnitude. Wrap your heads around that my friends .

[@DarkHelixia]

0:47 I thought everywhere was essentially the center of the universe seeing as everything is believed to have originated from a singularity. In the same spirit as the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic model, aren't we falling into the same bias in assuming that something (matter, energy) is the norm and that nothing (void) is strange rather than vice-versa?

[@jimbo33]

Dark energy is more than an enigma it is an unproven thought used to explain what is not known and one might just as well use the term Captain Kangaroo! I find it distressing that the term is being bandied about like it is a real proven object of reality rather than the theoretical invention stemming from ignorance!

[@katherineg9396]

I agree, but don't insult Captain Kangaroo.

[@AJayZy]

@@katherineg9396Ok then, elaborate. Because as far as I know within our cosmology community no one just assumes dark energy is the answer, it just happens to be the best thing we got right now. But hey, maybe a couple of youtube commenters with a pretentious vocabulary can clear it up for us hm?

[@scottdewitt-on7ui]

I find it fascinating that we can use nothing but visual observations to create hypothesis based on physics equations of those observations to estimate distance, size , chemical - physical make up of objects millions or billions of years old. So much to learn about the universe maybe we can learn it first hand and have the ability to travel to these distant objects in a reasonable amount of time.

[@OndrejPopp]

4:35 Billions of years ago the matter in the universe was almost perfectly uniform... 🤔 Now how do you know this if you were not there?

[@drewstead316]

The universe isn't really accelerating it's just that when you look twice as far away it appears as though things are moving away twice as fast, or 4 times further is moving four times as fast until you reach the end of the observable. Space time is curved and if you travel in the same direction long enough and fast enough you'd end up at the same galaxy you started in.

[@arfshesaid4325]

probably Gods place to sleep without all that light everywhere

[@miner79r]

In my opinion... I have always thought that the Voids were where the center of a Multiple Singularity was centered. The Mass Strings were from where the Waves from Singularities intersected.

[@darrenstansbury4433]

For thought and discussion, in relation to the universe where is the spirit world?

[@SFTesla]

I don't care to be around when they void the void (flush). How does a void get voided? Nature keeps it simple but complex to understand. We use TP, but it uses strings (which aren't too easy to understand, either).

[@jackcarson1554]

What if our understanding of space and time is constrained by our rudimentary imaginations? What if the universe, as we perceive and comprehend it, is beyond imagination? Why do we insist on defining a start and an end to everything? Consider the possibility that everything has always existed and will continue to exist. What if we inhabit just a minuscule fragment of this immensity, merely passing through a transient phase of matter and energy? Can you imagine?

[@purvicious]

The void that surrounds us offers us protection. Hiding from the nids is about all we can hope for

[@orionsimerl6539]

How is the KDC void 2 billion light years across, we're in the middle of it, and yet the great nothing void is 730 million miles from us, located roughly in the middle of the KDC void? And how is the Botes void bigger than the KDC void if the KDV void is 2 billion light years across the Botes is only hundreds of millions of light years across?

[@Cane4092]

DISCLAIMER: the picture in the thumbnail is NOT a picture of the Boötes void. Its actually a picture of an absorption nebula, which is a nebula that doesnt emit light. If it was the void, you would still be able to see stars behind it.

[@jonbold]

Your void is an apparition. The extragalactic medium is moving away from the observer near, at or above the local speed of light. This prevents the path of light. An event horizon is a similar apparition.

[@alive_twicedead_once34]

0:53 very poetic but unfortunately some of what you said was incorrect. In the depths of night, when we gaze up at the sky we don’t see galaxies, because instead just a singular galaxy. There is only one galaxy we can see with the naked eye and that’s the Andromeda galaxy. All other starts we can look at with our eyes are in the galaxy of stars we inhabit.

[@arekkrolak6320]

version without music?

[@40knpride]

The void is merely a reflection of the self, an emptiness that exists sorely to refract the flaw of self

[@EleanoreHornby]

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

[@user-roninwolf1981]

Why is it, that every time someone makes videos about the Bootes Void, they always use an image of the nebula Barnard 68 as a thumbnail?

[@WideCuriosity]

Earth is the centre of humanity. That makes it special.

[@WordBearer48]

Holy Terra, you mean

[@brianbullivant1009]

The only thing that terrifies astronomers is the lack of funding😂😂😂😂

[@CriminalonCrime]

So the void having improperly dispersed matter could actually be the cause of an intelligent life perhaps? Not thst they would still exist, but maybe thst they did?

[@rebeccarakuza2845]

Maybe it was some kind of black hole, or some spot of celestial bodies bouncing of one another and destroying everything there, then flinging the rest out in space?

[@FoOtFoOt542]

This is just too much. I’m still trying to figure out the tv remote.

[@neo187420]

Is solid snake doing the narration?

[@casard5235]

Looks like we're, maybe?, cells in the Cosmic body. What are voids within this 'body'?

[@ArchibaldDennis]

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

[@ff7fanboi]

wait theres some galaxies at the center??? that freaks me out even more

[@avisser5345]

I say we are the center of the universe and we can continue to claim that until someone comes along and proves otherwise.

[@1FokkerAce]

Dark Energy is the background snot in the massive sneeze we are currently living in.

[@gwugluud]

“Although the theories we’ve taken for granted for a century keep being consistently unproven, we still confidently know that there is no God”.

[@Rhino916.]

Not one astronomer saying why theyre terrified or a reason to be.

[@TheBikeRoom]

I played golf for long enough to witness the disappearance of balls that were witnessed/observed by the parties playing, including myself, to land on a green or an apron of a green and when arriving at the green, by foot, the ball wasn't there. It had clearly vanished. I can conclude that this phenomonon of vanishing golf balls was due to portals or miniature black holes, possible. The mind boggles.

[@sobreaver]

I'm just glad for the existence of Boöties >.>

[@johnbaran577]

That’s were the massive Type 3 Alien Civilization is

[@justpassingthrough...6128]

But, but, but what initiated it all?! In the beginning... ?

[@casard5235]

Ooh, beware the void. Thanks, I learned something new, something that fires my imagination.

[@Murray-yw4vu]

It's crazy to know that even nothing has something. Even if it's just a purpose!

[@treyweaver5396]

Good vid!

[@jilliancrawford7577]

I can see why fearing this can melt your brain to only say the word "Halloween".

[@scottgreen3807]

I do belive that the more one looks the more there is nothing out there. Our local mass area is pretty isolated and there are others far fair far way. But basically there is really nothing out there except a huge huge huge number of galaxies relatively small compared to space itself. Good stuff scary too.

[@totalspoof8344]

How do we know it's nothingness and not just so far away our eyes can't pick up the light?

[@asilusx24]

The galaxy buffer, wall. Allows galaxies to grow evolve and eventually kingdom or kingdoms are created controlling each, then eventually galaxy wars, type 5 maybe some end game going to war.