Posted on 03/31/2011 11:50:50 AM PDT by LibWhacker
“Just as a fish may be barely aware of the medium in which it lives and swims, so the microstructure of empty space could be far too complex for unaided human brains." -- Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, physicist, Cambridge University
Our known Hubble length universe contains hundreds of millions of galaxies that have clumped together, forming super clusters and a series of massive walls of galaxies separated by vast voids of empty space.
Great Wall: The most vast structure ever is a collection of superclusters a billion light years away extending for 5% the length of the entire observable universe. It is theorized that such structures as the Great Wall form along and follow web-like strings of dark matter that dictates the structure of the Universe on the grandest of scales. Dark matter gravitationally attracts baryonic matter, and it is this normal matter that astronomers see forming long, thin walls of super-galactic clusters.
If it took God one week to make the Earth, going by mass it would take him two quintillion years to build this thing -- far longer than science says the universe has existed, and it's kind of fun to have those two the other way around for a change. Though He could always omnipotently cheat and say "Let there be a Sloan Great Wall."
The Great Wall is a massive array of astronomical objects named after the observations which revealed them, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. An eight year project scanned over a quarter of the sky to generate full 3-D maps of almost a million galaxies. Analysis of these images revealed a huge panel of galaxies 1.37 billion light years long, and even the pedantic-sounding .07 is six hundred and sixty billion trillion kilometers. This is science precisely measuring made-up sounding numbers.
Sloane_9: This isn't the only wall out there -- others exist, all with far greater lengths than width or depth, actual sheets of galaxies forming some of the most impressive anythings there are. And these walls are only a special class of galactic filaments, long strings of matter stretched between mind-breaking expanses of emptiness.
Some of these elongated super clusters have formed a series of walls, one after another, spaced from 500 million to 800 million light years apart, such that in one direction alone, 13 Great Walls have formed with the inner and outer walls separated by less than seven billion light years.
Recently, cosmologists have estimated that some of these galactic walls may have taken from 80 billion to 100 billion, to 150 billion years to form in a direct challenge to current age estimates of the age of the Universe following the Big Bang.
The huge Sloan Great Wall spans over one billion light years. The Coma cluster (image above) is one of the largest observed structures in the Universe, containing over 10,000 galaxies and extending more than 1.37 billion light years in length.
Current theories of "dark energy" and "great attractors" have been developed to explain why a created universe did not spread out uniformly at the same speed and in the same spoke-like directions as predicted by theory. But as Sean Carroll of the Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics at Cal Tech is fond of saying, "We don't have a clue."
Britain’s Astronomer Royal, Lord Rees, says some of the cosmos’s biggest mysteries, like the Big Bang and even the nature of our own self awareness, might never be resolved. Rees, who is also President of the Royal Society, says that a correct basic theory of the universe might be present, but may be just too tough for human beings’ brains to comprehend.
Would you be satisfied with part of one day? He created light on Day One, and separated the light from the dark, again on Day One.
Hell will be; seeing the height, breadth and depth of creation, seen and unseen, then to see its creator, then to know all your earthly life you denied both.
To be awash in the super reality of God and His creation, having believed these things from a child, will for me, be heaven.
I'd be more interested in why you said he did it in an instant.
I’m sure there is a universe of Mexicans on the other side who have made their way through, around, above & below and are headed to the Milky Way.
Lends credence to my theory that the Universe has always existed. It spawns from virtual photons and particle pairs and ends via blackholes that spawn virtual photons and particle pairs through Hawking-type radiation...
It also follows that such masses would lend to my theory that space-time knots and twists. These "walls" would tend to form from the over-lapping gravity gradients of the galactic clusters like troughs and peaks in a bed-sheet tossed on a bed.
Pretty cool stuff.
That’s my point. No one can explain or comprehend infinite time and space, yet atheists insist that they only accept the explainable.
It is equally impossible to scientificly explain a universe with a finite beginning or one which is infinite. Something cannot come from nothing, but nothing can have existed forever without an origin. I have spoken to a few atheists about this and they generally say, “It is,so i must be.”, which is interestingly a matter of faith.
That’s my point. No one can explain or comprehend infinite time and space, yet atheists insist that they only accept the explainable.
It is equally impossible to scientificly explain a universe with a finite beginning or one which is infinite. Something cannot come from nothing, but nothing can have existed forever without an origin. I have spoken to a few atheists about this and they generally say, “It is,so it must be.”, which is interestingly a matter of faith.
Why would belief in one necessarily preclude belief in the other?
Many atheists are in reality; agnostics. They admit to ‘not having a grasp of the enormity of the universe and its Creator’.
Humility is asking questions.
re: “Nothing about doing it in an instant.”
I’m with you. All Genesis 1:1-2 says is:
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”
It simply says, “In the beginning”, which tells us nothing about how long ago that occured. God may have created the universe billions of years prior to doing His creative work with the earth. The earth may have been in existence for millions, billions (who knows?) as a formless empty planet before the “week” of creation took place. It just doesn’t say.
Now, the Big Bang evidence suggests that the universe formed explosively from a given point and is still expanding away into what?? It is beyond comprehension.
“yet atheists insist that they only accept the explainable”
Thank you for attempting to put false words in my mouth:<((((
This humanist accepts the fact that I don’t know and neither does anybody else. I also refuse to jump to any conclusions like its “Snap Your Finger Time” or that its been there forever. The universe that is.
On the other hand (she wore a ring), while not knowing, I would bet the cosmic farm that there is other sentient life so far more advanced than humans we would quickly assume they were Gods. They just haven’t yet been able to cross that cosmic void. :<))))))
But why does anything have to come from something? Why can't it just have always existed? Including God?
When I was a kid and first heard that space was infinite, I thought to myself that it couldn't be possible. There's got to be an end to the universe somewhere...a wall. And then I wondered what would be on the other side of the wall.
The idea that the universe bends back on itself is another goofy proposition, too.
Well, Seth said there was no beginning, and there’ll be no end.
Just kinda throwin’ that out there...
CA....
And also...it never suggests that God measures his days by the rotation of our little planet Earth.
As miraculous as our Creation must’ve been, maybe we’re all just specks of dust on the surface of the third electron in a giant fluorine atom, and those walls are nearby carbon nanotubes that some lab chemist “just” cooked up.
Please explain, scientifically, how that is possible.
Why would belief in an infinite and eternal Universe abnegate the existence of an equally infinite and eternal God?
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