[Scully]

Ping to those on RadioAstronomer's list. He is working long hours on a project and will be away much of the next 5 weeks. I will do my best to keep people pinged to interesting science threads.

[Nebullis]

Thank you, Scully.

[Brett66]

Thanks for the ping.

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for the ping. I'm ||CLOAKED|| and lurking.

[gcruse]

evolved into the seemingly random and
irregular structures that comprise the visible universe.

Is random the right word?  Last I heard, the
structures in the universe are arranged outside
the 'bubbles' of a 'foamy' universe.  Not random.

[longshadow]

elderly galactic bttt

[farmfriend]

I will do my best to keep people pinged to interesting science threads.

Thank you.

[blam]

Traveling at the speed of light for 13.5 billion years. Man, that's a long way! How many miles away is that?

[fire and forget]

Thanks for the post and ping. Check this out: If one could peer in ANY direction away from the Earth far enough back in time, one could observe the earliest detectible light and radio signatures of the universe and thus there is no single location from which all the matter and energy of the universe expanded. In other words, the Origin (the Big Bang) lies many billions of light-years away from us in EVERY direction. If we could look 14b light-years in ANY direction, we would see the universe when it was much smaller and dramatically closer to where it all began. Thus, the "point" from which the Big Bang kicked off, almost infinitely small at that time, now still encompasses the entire universe.

Simply mind-boggling. Our limited three-dimensional consciousness and the curvature of space-time make it impossible for our linear perception to grasp the true constitution of the universe outside unwieldy and insanely complex mathematical models. Gives me a headache everytime I think about it.

[Republic]

Thanks for the ping....this is fascinating stuff. Don't cha just wish that you could take a gander through that scope? :^)