Posted on 11/07/2008 3:29:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps of matter at more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) an hour -- a movement the researchers have dubbed dark flow.
The presence of the extra-universal matter suggests that our universe is part of something bigger -- a multiverse -- and that whatever is out there is very different from the universe we know, according to study leader Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
Dark flow was named in a nod to dark energy and dark matter -- two other unexplained astrophysical phenomena.
The newfound flow cannot be explained by, and is not directly related to, the expansion of the universe, though the researchers believe the two types of movement are happening at the same time...
The study team didn't set out to explode physics as we know it.
They simply wanted to confirm the longstanding notion that the farther away galaxies are, the slower their motion should appear.
That movement is detectable in data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which NASA says "reveals conditions as they existed in the early universe by measuring the properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation over the full sky" -- radiation thought to have been released about 380,000 years after the birth of the universe.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
Ever read Horton hears a Who?
Maybe whatever is pulling at the universe made the big bang in the first place? Kind of like a reaction and not an action?
Lots of room for speculation. Pretty fascinating stuff.
Oh yeah!! That’s probably where I got my idea.
That was a funny funny movie by the way. I laughed out loud alot!
This fits in with my theory that the known universe is a tiny speck floating in a gigantic toilet that has just been flushed.
Obama is everywhere!
All Republicans have to do is retrieve the Reagan playbook they threw in the trash.
You had a contract.
I guess the the multiverse-ic Tidy Bowl hanging thing accounts for blue shift.
Glad I could set that up for ya. ;’) Well played.
Will do.
Ah yes, the old ‘all sh!t is about to hit the wall and flatten out’ (ai ath twa fo) theory. After all, linear time has to flatten out on planar time at some where/when. They call it eternity, but it’s just way big present, all the ‘time’.
Cosmic socialists attempting to share the wealth of our Universe. Can’t escape the bastards.
Oooh, will do for you too. I think two in one day is probably a record for the String Theory Ping List.
Hmmmm. A new source of matter? A new source of gravity that negates the need for a theory of "dark matter".
Make it 3 ;)
If there's something huge out ther pulling at everything in our universe so that we're flying towards it at 2 million miles an hour, then how in the heck did the singularity ever form before the "big bang" that supposedly created the universe?
bttt
I’d say Ignorance has a large following among scientists, and among people in general. In fact, ignorance is the very coin of the realm.
Without ignorance, there would be rioting. Of that, I’m quite convinced.
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