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.
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Cell? I used the model of the atom. All that spinny, going round & round stuff, doncha know? And yes, spinny is a word, because I said it is, so there!
Expansion is a better way to say it than flying outward. It's like space is growing in between everything at an increasing rate of speed.
If space is growing (expanding) at an increasing rate of speed, wonder what time is up to?
OOooo, now you're really taxing my brain. I think that it depends on which theory about time that you use. I mostly wonder what it does with "c".
Well dealing with "c" we'll first have to figure out exactly what the hell a photon is and does it really exist in our three-dimensional spatial/one dimensional temporal universe. "c" = speed of light, light = photon, speed of light = time dilation maximum (time stopped)/ length contraction maximum (distance zero). It would appear to me that time and distance does not exist for a photon in "flight", therefore it does not exist in our 3Dimen/1temp dimen universe.
Kneel to Zed.
If it does not exist in our 3Dimen/1temp dimen universe, wouldn't it be uneffected by any medium that is within our 3Dimen/1temp dimen universe?
Keeping in mind that I'm just a semi-educated Cajun who has been told by various experts that I know just enough to be very dangerous to knowledge in several fields;-)..........I think I've read that there is no way to detect a photon in "flight" until it smashes into something (detector, retina etc. etc.), but that does not mean that something in our universe (gravity) will not effect its' flight path.
Pray we are alive to vote in 2012. I will not be surprised if I am hauled out at night to be shot. God willing and hopefully not.
Well, the problem with your theory is that the spinning (another way of saying expansion) should slow down due to gravity. But it is not slowing down. So you could postulate at least two theories for the increase. Either there is some kind of dark energy or force causing the expansion, or you could say that God is still applying the English. That would make English the universal language.
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