Why is it Dark at Night?

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+15 1. Gorf commented 11 years ago

Makes sense, I think...
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+6 2. MajorIdea commented 11 years ago

Whoa! That was cool. Thanks!
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+21 3. havix1 commented 11 years ago

WOW I thought it was just a smiple lack of light, way cool
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+5 4. nakama7777 commented 11 years ago

my head just exploded...in a good way XD
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+10 5. Nifen commented 11 years ago

i was not going to watch this video thinking, are you stupid this question is pretty easy.
Then i watched it. I'm feeling stupid, I didn't know it was caused by the galaxy moving away which causes light to become infrared.
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+3 6. ol1v33r commented 11 years ago

This video is boss, the only thing i am slightly unsure of is:- Are the distant stars turning infra-red because they are going away from us at a faster rate and their wavelength is increasing or slowing down like the record and lowering their wavelength to infra-red?
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+5 7. huldu commented 11 years ago

Many hundreds of years ago man believed the earth was flat. Many hundreds of years from now... what we "think" we know and what we don't know will be laughable.
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0 8. lyleoz commented 11 years ago

So, when my smartphone becomes a flashlight, the light moves away or the night becomes darker?
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+10 9. xxxLesy commented 11 years ago

#6 Yes. It was recently discovered that the universe is accelerating in expansion. That however left many scientists baffled, because they all assumed the expansion should be slowing down. They now assume there is an invisible force, pushing all the stars further apart.

The video is not completely accurate though. Scientists don't agree that the universe is limitless. NASA believes the universe is infinite and flat (standard model from 1930s). Others are certain that the universe has the shape of a football (soccer ball) - a dodecahedron. Einstein calculated the radius of the universe being 10^10 light years.

For further info I recommend watching "Through the wormhole" series.
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+2 10. wtfysc commented 11 years ago

Holy shit. And here I was thinking "pfft I don't need to watch that, the sun goes around the other side of the earth blah blah...".
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0 11. millybert69 commented 11 years ago

the reason for it being dark at night is because the suns nakerd and has simply gone to bed SIMPLES just like every other person does
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+2 12. moskwiz commented 11 years ago

So.. the sky being black at night is direct evidence of the big bang =D What are they still arguing about then?!?
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+2 13. gcleffff commented 11 years ago

oh now i know where did they get the infrared hmmmm