I think the balloon analogy does not work well here. As far as we know the big bang was the start of our universes spacetime. There are plenty of theories on what might have happened “before.”.

Here is a good playlist to get you started on learning some more info.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNAV2T4af0Di7bcsb095z164

And this video from that playlist is directly related to this discussion.

https://youtu.be/K8gV05nS7mc

The CMBR was the first light that could ever actually go a long distance in the universe, as before that the universe was opaque plasma. When the universe cooled to a threshold it the. Became transparent to light. This light was released in all directions at all points, which is why we still see it today. It will be detectable until the universe’s expansion speeds up to a point where it outpaces the speed of light.

There are some patterns in the CMBR but only due to density fluctuations. A fascinating topic to look into is the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. Small quantum density variations that were expanded rapidly as the big bang started going into overdrive that have shaped the universe on an immense scale.

I don’t have time to answer every question you have sadly, and I’m just someone who really enjoys learning about this stuff in their free time. The channel I mentioned has videos on all of this. I highly suggest you start watching those if you actually want an in depth understanding of this.

Yea, all the time. It’s like one of the first things engineers program.

Someone else already replied probably better than I can, but this is one of my favorite subjects to study.

The big bang didn’t really start in a place, it happened at a point in time. As we look at all of the galaxies around us (minus the close ones we are gravitationally interacting with) they are all moving away from us, so either 1) we are exactly where the big bang took place (vanishingly unlikely) or 2) the big bang happened everywhere and all of space is expanding from that event.

We can actually see the first light ever released in the universe (not from the big bang, as the universe was a dense plasma for the first ~400,000 years until the recombination era) as the cosmic microwave background radiation. And it is (relatively) even in all directions, minus some minor temperature variations.

I highly suggest looking at a channel on YouTube called PBS Spacetime. They have videos going back years and years that dive into great depth on all of these topics!

Exactly, there will be causally disconnected pocket universes in the future. I’m thankful we still live in a time when we can see the rest of the universe. Creatures alive in 100 billion years might have no way to figure out how the universe started, or that there is anything outside of their local cluster at all.

Not sure why you’re saying that like anyone here would disagree with you. That’s not some profound realization. That’s something that every other person in this thread already knows.

Also one of the best ways to stop people from starving.

Almost assuredly it can, I think it broke or went into a failsafe or something.

It does give some perspective. Is this data center so important that we need to emit as much pollution as a country with a population of 3 million people?

Do you know if that is including mobile games?

No but it seems to have like 40 hours on a good charge and can charge and play at the same time with the puck. So I kinda doubt it will be an issue. And it’s fully replaceable with no glue and just a few screws? That seems completely fine to me.

More specifically, the space in-between galaxies will be expanding so fast that light is too slow to be able to cross it. Functionally making it so there are causally separated bubble universes.

I can kinda see how maybe they meant it in an honorable way? Like “Look at this guy, he stuck to his morals and was an upstanding person.” But it really should have been more clear if that was their intention.