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Case:

--- Quote from: Akima on 29 Apr 2016, 17:49 ---That building on the edge of a waterfall looks more like a cathedral than a castle.

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Yup, that's Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne region of France.




--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 29 Apr 2016, 16:26 ---Is that a painting or a real place? I wish to read about it. And perhaps hang it on my wall.

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Streetview here - Though sadly, no waterfall ...  :cry:

JimC:

--- Quote from: Arkantos on 29 Apr 2016, 17:45 ---... so, somewhere out there, this place exists. Probably not near you, though.
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And, sadly, thanks to erosion, not for very long.  But its fun to imagine that when the first structure was built that was an island well back from the falls. Historically the  Niagara falls was 5 feet a year, so I reckon some of those viaduct arches only have 10 years or so.

But what a splendid image!

The original artist, BTW, seems to be http://www.frederic-st-arnaud.com/

War Sparrow:

--- Quote from: Arkantos link=topic=33
[quote author=War Sparrow link=topic=33346.msg1353500#msg1353500 date=1461983127 ---Well, that stands to reason, as my current living area is boring, and there is a lack of large water. And castles.

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By "near you" I meant "in this galaxy" or maybe even "in our supercluster of galaxies".
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Do not take my dreams from me. Lots of European royalty got crazy. Maybe it existed once. Or tried to.

Thanks for the link,  Case. I shall read of pretty churches.

danuis:

--- Quote from: Arkantos on 29 Apr 2016, 19:33 ---
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 29 Apr 2016, 18:17 ---Based on the Big Bang, the universe is finite.

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That isn't how it works. The Big Bang occurred everywhere in the universe, when all matter was condensed into a singularity and began expanding suddenly and quickly. It is conceivable that some area of the universe may be largely without matter in it (we've found such an area), but, as far as we can tell, the universe is infinite and expanding.

It is really hard to explain adequately and in a comprehensible way.


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I think I get what you're saying, but let me add this: The big bang was the expansion of that singularity, yes. Everything from that singularity IS the universe; there is a 'limit' to the universe; the edge of that expansion. What lies BEYOND that expansion is not the universe. It's just nothing. No dark energy, no dark matter, no matter, just....nothing. A true void, a true 'space'. No atoms. No molecules. None of the fundamental forces, no rays or spectrums, nothing. Unless another universe exists in that void as well, or on a whole other 'plane' entirely, on another leaf/side of paper, if you will.

If you could get beyond the universe into that void, you could turn around and possibly see the universe in some form; though it does beg the question since it's outside the universe, would you, if you could get there, even manifest in some form? Would the laws of gravity, attraction, and matter and everything else work there? Or would one begin to scatter as the laws of the universe, also held by the boundary of the expanding universe, decay at the edge or right after it?

Since faster than light travel is impossible on the laws of physics we have now; and even if it were it would be a logistical nightmare to reach the edge of the universe, those answers may very well go forever unquestioned. But they can still be at the least asked, eh?

sitnspin:
There is no outside the universe. The universe is literally everything.

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