I read it as “stepson” and thought it was a low res picture of pizza. I guess I am a bit sleep deprived.
Somewhere in late 2000s I saw one of the most mind-melting GIFs I’ve seen that compared the Solar System objects to the largest known stars at the time. This kinda reminded me of that.
Why doesn’t the big star simply eat the smaller stars?
Look up “the great attractor”.
The “big crunch” is the (probably incorrect) hypothesis that there’s enough mass to pull the universe into a single black hole - where everything is eaten by black holes, even all the black holes (nothing to do with the great attractor). The big bang in reverse
They do, but space is very big, and gravity is relatively weak in comparison.
The strength of gravity drops off exponentially with distance. For a star to consume another star they need to be really close.
This is made even more difficult when you consider they’re all moving through empty space really really fast.
*cosmic dread intensifies
ok so, this post reminds me, a while ago i archived all of the older Vsauce content, and i binged through the vast majority of it, and i can swear there was a video from him about the scale of the universe, or the scale of things in the universe, but i can’t for the life of me find it.
Either it’s hiding somewhere, or i’m making some shit up and it isn’t real lol.
it’s quite possibly somewhere in there. The blessing and the curse of Vsauce videos is that you never know what’s going to be inside of it
yeah, that’s kind of the problem i’m having lol, doesnt help that his video titles are often a little obtuse.
you got me to rewatch a couple of my favourites and there’s a bit about the scale of the singal we send out to space in Messages For the Future. Maybe it was that?
Not Vsauce, but corridor crew did a video like that.
Or maybe its this from the D!NG channel hosted by Vsauce Jake
Maybe it was by a different educational YouTuber. I’m thinking Veritasium.
that’s possible, but vasuce has a very specific video style, i guess i should probably go watch a couple veritasium videos to be sure lol.
The obvious answer is that it’s actually something related to “the scale of the universe” which is another really cool project, but i don’t think it’s that one either.