Are there three dimensional models of the universe (see details)?
I was thinking about how awesome it would be to sit in the dark with a huge television and watch a three dimesional model or movie of the universe.
It would only be a camera floating through space at different speeds, so the viewer can explore this universe. It would be amazing to see the various facets of tbe universe on your TV. There would even be Gustav’s “Planets” playing while you watch.
Does something like this exist?
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Would that be Gustav Holst?
I think there are animations and simulations that do this, although I don’t know how far they go.
I love Gustav Holst’s The Planets but that’s a tiny, tiny chunk of the Universe. Check this link with video to “Inertia” by Insomnium. Much closer to the true cacophony of the Universe. Here’s an even more accurate and satisfying fly through, form nanometers to billions of light years.
I think you would find a true fly-through a most unusual film. The Big Bang isn’t something that happened at a particular point in space, exploding out to fill what was previously a void. It was the beginning of space. So it happened everywhere in space. Observe from here and there are galaxies rushing away from us at equal speeds in any direction you look. The most distant of these are almost 13.75 billion light years from us—meaning they formed and emitted their light shortly after the Big Bang occurred. So it would seem that we are at the exact center of the Universe.
But we know now that when we send probes into space, no matter how far they get from here, the Universe appears centered about them. It would seem that the Big Bang was the explosion of space everywhere, and that everywhere is still rushing apart at an accelerating pace. You cannot make sense of it in three dimensional terms.
Yeah, Gustav Holst. Those videos were awesome @ETpro. I’m going to zone out and listen to music while I watch them sometime, thanks. :)
This video tries to make a 3 dimensional view of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and does a pretty good job of it, too.
Celestia is a navigable 3d model of local space – like much libreware, it’s under constant development, so it’s not easy to say just how exhaustive it is. If you have invested in the correct video equipment you could probably render it in 3d.
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