Posted on 10/24/2015 11:39:43 AM PDT by lbryce
Although impressive, the number of galaxies found at this early epoch is not the team’s only remarkable breakthrough, as Johan Richard from the Observatoire de Lyon, France, points out. “The faintest galaxies detected in these Hubble observations are fainter than any other yet uncovered in the deepest Hubble observations.”
By looking at the light coming from the galaxies the team discovered that the accumulated light emitted by these galaxies could have played a major role in one of the most mysterious periods of the universe’s early history — the epoch of reionization. Reionization started when the thick fog of hydrogen gas that cloaked the early universe began to clear. Ultraviolet light was now able to travel over larger distances without being blocked and thus the universe became transparent to ultraviolet light.
By observing the ultraviolet light from the galaxies found in this study the astronomers were able to calculate whether these were in fact some of the galaxies involved in the process. The team determined that the smallest and most abundant of the galaxies in the study could be the major actors in keeping the universe transparent. By doing so, they have established that the epoch of reionization — which ends at the point when the universe is fully transparent — came to a close about 700 million years after the big bang.
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
Explodo ergo sum
Amen.
He’s basically saying the Bible’s God is the real one and he doesn’t even know it!!!
“it’s a fairy tale for people who are afraid of the dark”
yeah, that’s what it is /s
Yes, the universe just simply came out of nothing.
Uh-huh.
At least he can say we dont know yet.
But his leap is just as big as ours.
moreso!!
Something from nothing. And he has no problem with that.
There’s all kinds of theories, that the universe has burst and collapsed millions of times over infinite years etc.
i dont know how it all works, but i’m pretty sure i know who’s behind it
You’re arguments are all crap.
Saying the Universe was originated from something else presupposes the Universe is not really the Universe, because it does not encompass everything. Otherwise there would be no other place from which the Universe could be created. One logical conclusion is that everything comes from something that is everything that ever was, is now, and ever will be, including all of time. In Christian theistic terms God is the Creator because God is everything, God is eternal, always having been and always will be, with this particular Universe being merely what God has manifested as a part of God. In non-theistic terms, the Universe encompassing everything in all dimensions beyond those experienced in this finite spacetime continuum is eternal, having always existed and always will exist in an infinite number of manifestations of spacetime.
In the scenario wherein a “Big Bang” occurred to inflate what we identify as the Universe, one explanation for the event is that what we identify as the Universe is not really the whole Universe at all, but is only one infinitesimal lobe or part of an infinite number of alternative parts of a constantly changing Greater Universe with a multitude of dimensions that interact to manifest and then destroy a spacetime continuum as a part of the infinite whole through the effects of quantum mechanics creating the fabric of spacetime in an infinite series of quantum singularities winking in and out of existence at all times.
Awesome is overused, but it is awe inspiring to think how far back in time Hubble has been able to look.
“You’re arguments are all crap.”
I did not make the argument. The Vatican, Roman Catholic Church, and a variety of Protestant and Baptist churches have made their arguments. I’m only reporting what you recklessly and negligently disregarded to further your own deceit and lie. Now you are doubling down with that kind of misbehavior by engaging in another ad hominem attack, rather than acknowledge the Truth that Christians do acknowledge and even originated much of the science of evolution. Now, if you’ve got a problem with those sources, you can just march your sorry excuse for a sinner up to the Vatican and tell them what you think of their argument, and the same goes for the Protestants and the Baptists and their arguments acknowledging the science of evolution.
Ever since Patrick Moore wrote his amateur astronomy books and marveled at the building of ever more powerful optical telescopes, there has been a question of just how big we can ever make an optical telescope and what it would be able to see when we did use it?
I really don’t care to read anything you write. I hear enough from the whole godless culture and their high priests. We’ve all heard enough enough. Save it for the little kids you want to brainwash.
I am by any means no expert, but if I understand the theory we can’t look back any further than this because the earliest universe was a non-transparent cloud?
The very notion of reason itself presupposes a cause.
that’s true.
i’ll have to visit my “fried” and get some of the good stuff and contemplate this for hours :)
nah, haven’t smoked a doob in 25 years.
“I really don’t care to read anything you write.”
Once again, you are falsely misrepresenting the fact that the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant churches are responsible for the content of the aricles concerning theistic science of evolution.
“I hear enough from the whole godless culture and their high priests.”
I see, so now you are calling the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant churches and their members a “godless culture and their high priests.” Brilliant move, I’m sure they will appreciate your points of view and method of expressing them. Perhaps they will remember you in their prayers and the forgiveness of your sins and trespasses.
“We’ve all heard enough enough. Save it for the little kids you want to brainwash.”
What is your excuse for trying to “brainwash” “little kids”, as you put it, to hate anyone who has the temerity to tell the truth about the existence of Christians who are instrumental in acknowledging the science of evolution?
“I am by any means no expert, but if I understand the theory we can’t look back any further than this because the earliest universe was a non-transparent cloud?”
They seem to think that they can:
ARE ULTRA-FAINT GALAXIES AT Z = 6; 8 RESPONSIBLE FOR COSMIC REIONIZATION ?
COMBINED CONSTRAINTS FROM THE HUBBLE FRONTIER FIELDS CLUSTERS AND PARALLELS
[....]
We clearly demonstrate here the great potential and the feasibility of peering into the early universe through these cosmic telescopes. The remaining HFF clusters will certainly help improve even more our constraints on the UV LF at z 7 and in particular at z 8 to better assess the role of galaxies in the
cosmic reionization process. Our results also show the
great promise of future programs targeting lensing fields
and pave the way to observing programs with the James
Webb Space Telescope or the Wide-Field Infrared Survey
Telescope (WFIRST), which are scheduled for launch in
the near future.
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/releases/science_papers/heic1523a.pdf
We shall see when those telescopes go up ...
NOt in the book of Mormon - but close.
But consider - it was from an ancient document and translated/published over a hundred years and fifty ago - LONG before the scientists ‘discovered’ this ... -
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