is it true id see my own head? anyone can explain what im talking about
2007-07-23 10:48:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
because space is curved if you looked in one direction far enough, you would see the back of your head, if you had all seeing eyes, ?
2007-07-23 10:56:01 · update #1
zen and the art of motercylce maintanance, read it its in there
2007-07-23 11:04:38 · update #2
two things, the idea of telescopic resolution was no based on human standards, (i was thinking beyond the human limits of sight and time)
should have put it in philosophy, but wanted a math idea
2007-07-23 11:10:41 · update #3
can YOU explain what you're talking about?
2007-07-23 10:52:15 · answer #1 · answered by Gio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tyler - I cannot begin to tell you how many hundreds - no thousands - of people come on this forum and say things like "Someone told me the moon landing was fake" or the classic "I saw evidence on the internet that we never landed on the moon." Thousands. None of these people has sufficient knowledge of physics, history, orbital mechanics, photography, or simple science to formulate a rational argument. They just say that someone told them something or they saw it on that great journal of scientific knowledge - the internet. Please do not join the ranks of the ignorant. Go look it up for yourself, and I don't mean on the internet. Do your homework. The Apollo missions were much better documented than the current series of Mars landers. Do you consider those to be fake? Ask yourself "How could all those thousands of people that worked on the Apollo program be part of this conspiracy?" The government has a very difficult time maintaining real secrets; this would have been impossible. I was standing in the press section 3 miles away when the Apollo 17 was launched in the middle of the night. It's very unfortunate that you were not there. That was no suborbital vehicle. It was like a 35 story building getting up and flying away. It lit up the sky like daylight and shook the air. I guess the teachers today don't have a good way of conveying the level of excitement that pervaded the entire world during those missions. Too bad. ADDED: By the way, the other man on Apollo 11 was Michael Collins. He stayed in orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the lunar surface. He was their ticket home.
2016-05-21 04:27:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First tell me what you're on and how much you took so I can better explain what you're talking about.
Dude, presuming this philosophy is true, you sure as help wouldn't notice the effect from as close as the moon. Why would you need to be on the moon in the first place to do it? Couldn't you just point a telescope out your window and see the back of your head here?
How old are you?
2007-07-23 10:52:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Even if space is closed, no real-image telescope could possibly have that kind of resolution. Futher, the vastness of the distances, big bang expansion, and the speed of light would dictate that you would have to keep watching for longer than the age of the universe in order for the image to come back around.
DOne.
2007-07-23 11:04:48 · answer #4 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you'd see only as far as the event horizon 13.7 billion lightyears away, and it's pretty flat out to there. There was never a time or place in our Universe where light curved back on itself, and (given Dark Energy) there probably never will be.
2007-07-23 14:02:46 · answer #5 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are on the moon - and got a giant telescope - is she not afraid of what you are doing?
Your explanation to see the back of your neck is quite a reflector - though it would not be possible to see yourself looking out...like the endless mirror ploy..one relfect the other until infinity..though it is not infinity as the size gets smaller with depth of field..having said that..maybe it is yer brain you are not seeing at the end of it..
2007-07-23 11:33:51 · answer #6 · answered by upyerjumper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you would see the other side of the moon, which would be blocking the direct view of your head.
I would suggest putting your magical time and distance defying telescope in open space.
2007-07-23 12:37:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
EVEN IF space has a closed curve, (not currently believed), you would not.
The light from your head would not have time to circumnavigate the universe.
We currently see objects billions of light years distant, (years in the past).
2007-07-23 11:07:10 · answer #8 · answered by Irv S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a theory. If the universe is a 'closed' system, then there's enough matter existent in this universe such that space curves all the way around itself, and by looking infinitely far ahead, you'll see yourself.
If the universe is NOT closed, then you WON'T see yourself.
2007-07-23 11:21:07 · answer #9 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ok first of all, if that were true the same thing would happen on earth, bet u never though of that did u?
good luck with that, though.
2007-07-23 12:12:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - you would not. Maybe your question needs a bit more thought.
2007-07-23 10:54:09 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋