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Are the universe's filaments and voids same as in fire's voids?
I was looking at the structures of the universe and noticed that the filaments and voids formed structures very similar to those seen in flame and fire. Is this related to the same forces and has this observation been documented by others? Are there other structures larger than clusters, filaments, and voids.
Not just fire but I see them in the Crab Nebula, in MRI images, in the Particle Dispersion in Space experiments for the lunar lander, nuclear explosions have these bubble-like structures as do the COBE images of the observable universe.
Thank you Richard.
2 Answers
- Erica sLv 79 years agoFavourite answer
There is no connection other than the tendency of humans to see patterns. The largest known structure in the Universe is called the Sloan Great Wall. It is a "wall" of galaxies and galaxy clusters 1.37 billion light years in length. This is roughly one sixtieth the diameter of the known Universe. Whether this is part of a yet larger structure is still open to conjecture, though some cosmologists believe it to be.
- ?Lv 79 years ago
1 Are these filaments and voids related to flames? No. They are produced by the action of gravity on a universe which had tiny deviations in its youth from total uniformity. Look up COBE, which measured such deviations from uniformity in the Comic Microwave Background Radiation, the remnant of the period only about 380,000 years after Big Bang. Flames are produced by forces such as convection which have no parallel in this case.
2 Are there larger structures? Not that we've noticed.