Science - a symposium. (Feat. SMBP)

[Nique]

I've been watching Cosmos alongside a few other specials on astrophysics and admittedly sometimes I'm not so much watching it as I am passed out in front of it with a melted bowel of ice cream in my lap, but it's all still pretty amazing.

I have some concerns regarding the age of the universe. If time moves more slowly and, practically, stands still within the event horizon of black holes, does that mean that parts of the universe are actually younger than others? We currently think the universe is about 13,000,000,000 years old but time is not as linear as we tend to think since it is affected by gravity.

Also! Did you know that if a star goes supernova in a certain way it can create a gigantic death-ray that would wipe out anything in it's path with a beam of gamma radiation? I thought that was pretty wild.

Anyway, yeah, space. It's big. Really really big, and there's a lot of weird stuff out there!