Posted on 11/14/2012 6:42:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Reuters - An illustration showing how SDSS-III was able to measure the distant universe. Light rays from distant quasars (dots at left) are partially absorbed as they pass through clouds of intergalactic hydrogen gas (centrE). CREDIT: Zosia Rostomian, LBNL; Nic Ross, BOSS Lyman-alpha team, LBNL; and Springel et al, Virgo Consortium and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Now that’s an old map.
Union Cartographers?
Look! There’s Nebraska!
The headline makes it sound as if they found an 11 billion year old map. I’ll bet the paper is pretty brittle. :^)
I always look forward to reading these stories, but I wind up not understanding a darn thing they’re saying.
I did not know the frst map was produced 11 billion years ago!
The ink’s still drying.
The guy who made the map back then didn’t realize how old he was.
He was caught in one of those Vonnegutian Chrono Synclastic Infundibulum Thingys.
lol. Plausible!
So it goes.
In the beginning there were grapefruits. And then they exploded seeding the ——— which resulted in an expanding universe. Amazing stuff.
I wind up not understanding a darn thing they’re saying.
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I hear ya. We have lost some sharp astronomical assets here over the years that could chime in.. but hopefully a few are still around that can help us out. ;-}
Vonnegutian Chrono Synclastic Infundibulum Thing. That explains it, thanks.
Me too—I guess stuff like this is above my pay grade.....
That theorem leaves a bitter taste in my mouth and tummy.. altho some believe that the known universe used to be a tiny little thing, no bigger than a pea or so.. so a grapefruit is not entirely out of the running. lol
I hope they printed that map on a very large sheet of rubber, because the universe has expanded a lot in 11 billion years.
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