You’re going to be a plankton a few trillion trillion trillion times.

And been the torturer. And a billionaire. And someone who met the love of their life and spent 80 years with them. A whole world of experiences.

I mean if you believe in the big bounce theory over the heat death, then time should be infinite. If infinite, you should be repeated over and over again and everyone else plus more.

Is there some way to understand the amount of Dark Matter in these galaxies (and whether or not that may be constant or changing over time)?

There's a scientific theory that there's only one electron in the universe, that every one is the same one just looping back and forth in time (the instances of it going backward are all the positrons). It's almost certainly not true (one flaw is that there are a lot more electrons than positrons, for example), but the thought helped lead to idea that particle/antiparticle pairs are the same, just reversed in time.

We're all parts of the universe observing itself

Temporal Prime Directive peeps. Time to shove this one under the rug and ignore it.

How much of the night sky is lensed? Is there any estimates of how much you see is duplicates, or is it a rare occurance?

Actually, yeah. I've not heard it referred to as such but after googling it seems that short story is very similar. Andy Weir is one of my favorite authors, I'm surprised I haven't read that story yet.

Egg theory?

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Geez people, it was a legitimate question.

There’s a lot more out there than torture and crippling depression :)

That's exactly what he said. You just reframed the answer.

For those curious but don't want to read,

First picture: day 0 (3.2 billion light years from earth)

Second picture: 320 days from the first pic.

Third picture: 1000 days from the first pic.

How do they know this? A supernovae clearly seen from the first pic can be seen in the other two images with the same positions but fading away in brightness.

Why are they different timelines? Gravitational lensing that not only bends light but also space time.

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To my understanding, we can only see to the point where spacetime has accelerated away faster than the speed of light. The oldest most distant light is permanently out of our reach.

Right? I just started getting into this stuff and feel I'm late to the party. I'm still young but still... I wish I could eat books for their knowledge 😩

It's not the same thing as the galaxy itself moving, though. And it's much easier to understand how light can take different paths than a galaxy taking different paths. I wanted to make extra clear what was doing the traveling in the analogy.

Yeah. The theory dives further into itself explaining that by experiencing all there is to experience only then can you achieve enlightenment. I'm paraphrasing in a major way as I haven't studied that theory in years, but that's the very basic gist.

We are the conscious mind of the universe. It’s a beautiful thing.

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Theoretically, if you had a telescope that could see all the way back to the Big Bang and right after, shouldn't you be able to point the telescope at any point in the sky and see it but at different angles?

I mean, it's philosophy. They're all just theories. We're all just meat-mechs controlled by a brain that named itself. Nothing makes sense.