I’ve been completely nerding out with books on cosmology and looking over astrophysics articles recently. As a photographer I’ve been interested in space telescopes and I wanted to share this incredible view.
This is a false-colour image of the Andromeda galaxy by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005.
What’s more amazing to me is the analysis of the cosmic background radiation that surmises the need for an inflaton particle, or what we know was “the instant at or before the big bang”, and that due to it’s extreme energy and effect of quantum jitters on a Plank-length scale, the universe is at a macro-scale uniform, but at a micro-scale different enough to unevenly distribute the density of the Higgs field, allowing for particles to collide and create astroids, planets, stars and galaxies as we know it.
Without the inflaton particle and the quantum jitter to be just the way it was, we wouldn’t be here today.
This theory also surmises that there are an infinite amount of universes that were created in the same way, but most weren’t so lucky to have created the particle properties we see and feel today.
With an infinite amount of universes, an infinite amount of space and an infinite amount of time, our cosmic expanse allows us to also surmise that there are an infinite amount of lives playing out, just like ours, only with extremely minute differences.
And *boom* goes your brain.
