I HAVE GONE TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE!

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I HAVE GONE TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE!

Post #1by buggs_moran » 28.09.2004, 20:53

I HAVE GONE TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE!
It was black (visibly anyways) and just a smidge.

For gits and shiggles I took a jaunt around the universe.

8) Approximately 10,240,000,000,000 ly from the Milky Way I experienced a curvature of space/wormhole/jump? which returned me to ~4x10^12 ly from our galaxy.

Over time, I kept my speed at a leisurely 1x10^12 ly/s. (no increase in mass here, I am a massless point in Celestia.) I found that I was shuffled through space, sometimes rebounding off invisible barriers and hurtled back, and other times being repositioned. My maximum distance was about 12x10^12 ly and repositioning usually got me back to 3 -5 x 10^12 ly.

Which immediately made me wonder:

1) Chris, are 3 dimensional galactic coordinates (x,y,z or r, ra, dec) possible in verbose info for the future, maybe when you select the Milky Way it becomes your frame of reference?

2) Why does the software act this way? Are there boundries or is it a function of the subroutines and the math?

Buggs

Oh yeah, the universe ends about 5,890,000 years from now. LOL, pack your bags.

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Post #2by Rassilon » 29.09.2004, 23:12

That was your single precision numbers reverting to the negitive value...Speed up time and it does the same thing goes from 5 million AD to negitive 5 million AD etc...
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