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Is Earth inside a huge void? 'Sound of Big Bang' hints so

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The pic from the article with candles and ray traced reflections is giving big ‘time cube’/geocities conspiracy theory energy
- The best form of energy; I'm grateful it conserves
Seems like being inside a huge void could also be beneficial for the formation of life: might result in fewer celestial collisions nearby, and therfore less frequent mass extinction event causing meteors?
Which might explain why earth has intelligent life but we haven't yet seen evidence of intelligent extra terrestrial life.
- It is a billion light years void, not a light day void.
Does this explain the spooky redshift stuff that seems to say we're much closer to the outer expanse than previously thought? Seems like it confuses that even more.
- No. That's caused by actual acceleration, not simply passing through a less dense area of space.
  
  Well then how do you explain detected objects that are older than what we know as the age of the universe?
How can we be in a big void while also nearby other stellar objects and also being located in one of the dustiest galaxies we know of? What is their definition of a void?
- A billion light years across at 20% lower density. So not stellar neighborhood, way bigger than a galaxy.

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