Journey to the Edge of the Universe' National Geographic TV

[Ichingcarpenter]

Narrated by Alex Baldwin.

Pretty good show on right now.

National Geographic presents the first accurate non-stop voyage from Earth to the edge of the Universe using a single, unbroken shot through the use of spectacular CGI technology. Building on images taken from the Hubble telescope, Journey to the Edge of the Universe explores the science and history behind the distant celestial bodies in the solar system.


It is worth the time.

[Kutjara]

1. It sounds fascinating, but even if the camera is traveling at light-speed...

...I fear I may not have time to watch the whole program.

[DonEBrook]

4. Sure you will. At V=c time doesn't pass at all!

:D

[Kutjara]

5. Good point!

Although I suspect everything will be a bit of a blur. ;)

I also worry that, with infinite mass, the camera might do a bit of damage on its travels.

[DonEBrook]

8. Very likely, but...when it bumps into a black hole...who wins that one?

:scared: :D

[Kutjara]

9. I think you just get a bigger black hole, if something...

...that has no dimension can be said to be "bigger." A more important problem, however, is that no light will be able to escape from the camera/black hole, so we won't ever be able to see the video it records.

[DonEBrook]

10. Eventually everything in the universe falls into black holes, the 'critical non-mass' point at which

the pressure is too great and makes another Big Bang. Oh, great, there we go again. :shrug:
:rofl:

[Kutjara]

11. Hmmm, so if I set my TiVo for about 80 trillion years from now...

...I should be able to catch the show. I'll do it now, before I forget.

[DonEBrook]

12. 80,000,000,000,004.27 to be exact.

:D

[Kutjara]

13. I was hoping the TiVo would adjust for spacetime anomalies.

On reflection, though, that's probably a bit overoptimistic. ;)

[BB1]

17. Or the Universe keeps expanding,

In that case, there could be 'local' Big Bangs which will support the raise of new universes (born out of nothing). In greater extend, the fabric of our Universe could be torn apart by the ever drifting galaxies; certain forces could stretch to breakingpoint of cease to exist all together.

However, I won't be around to enjoy it. Nor would my eyes or other senses be sensitive enough to see any of it. Too bad, I always wanted to eat at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Well, so long...

[Fumesucker]

19. The camera wins.. At C, the camera mass would be infinite..

The Tau at C is Zero..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zero

Tau Zero follows the crew of the starship Leonora Christine, a colonization vessel crewed by 25 men and 25 women. The ship is not capable of FTL travel and so is constrained by relativity. Its engines operate two modes, acceleration and deceleration. The deceleration module becomes damaged during the trip. Because the engines must be running at all times (to provide particle/radiation shielding), and because of the hard radiation produced by the engines, the crew can neither repair the decelerator nor turn off the accelerator. Instead, the ship must accelerate indefinitely, crowding closer and closer to the speed of light.

Much of the novel deals with the crewmembers' reactions to the knowledge that they are being carried further and further into the future (because of the extreme time dilation caused by their ever-increasing velocity) and away from any possibility of contact with humanity. The novel derives considerable power through descriptions of the changing and extreme time dilation effects.

The storyline is reminiscent of the long poem and later opera Aniara where the ship also was unable to stop and doomed to travel endlessly. Anderson's novel has a more upbeat ending, however: when all hope is gone, the crew finally find a drastic solution to their situation (albeit the solution does not conform to modern thinking on the evolution of the universe).

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. The Show takes you on a journey as if you are on a spaceship

especially good in HD. Right now it is circling the IO the moon of Jupiter with
all the latest findings from NASA and the European Space agency.

From NatGeo:

In one single, epic camera move we journey from two people studying the night sky, accelerate up through the atmosphere, past the moon and neighboring planets, and out of our solar system, to the stars, galaxies and beyond. Traveling all the way to the edge of the universe itself, NGC goes on a breathtaking grand tour of the cosmos, to explore newborn stars, distant planets, black holes and galaxies beyond. With the help of the world's largest telescope and cinema-quality CGI, we'll journey to the edge of time to visualize the powers that forge and constantly renew the universe.

This special is absolutely beautiful and the ultimate in "reality TV". Give it a watch...or atleast Tivo it for later!

[Kutjara]

7. I hit the TiVo button the second I saw your post.

I'm an utter space nut, to this stuff is like porn for me (but in a wholesome way).

[closeupready]

16. I think this is a repeat. They go all the way out, and then zoom back in down to the atomic level.

It's fascinating.

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. That was the light speed trip..... The show was really good eye candy

with all of the CG that was done.

[DonEBrook]

2. Will repeat at 11:00 PM EST tonight if that's more convenient

:D
(channel 186 on Dish Network)

[Hokie]

3. I miss NG Channel

I have to go to the top package to get NG with Dish Network. I hate all the channel tiers they have to try to squeeze another $5 per month out of their subscriber base.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. The further you get out in space with this show

the more trippy it is. It almost looks like a really good screen saver
on acid. We are still in our galaxy right now watching a hyper nova happen.


Baldwin does a great job narrating it with appropriate music. The DVD comes out soon
I would use this in the classrooms

I give it a 9 out of 10

[derby378]

15. Saw the show, not that impressed

They spent one-half of the show just piddling around in our own solar system. Not that it isn't a fascinating place, but we want to see what else is out there. They didn't even have time to fit magnetars or the WMAP Cold Spot into the program. Wassup with that?