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Posted on 09/23/2008 4:46:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren't vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered.
Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can't be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. Astronomers are calling the phenomenon "dark flow."
The stuff that's pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude.
When scientists talk about the observable universe, they don't just mean as far out as the eye, or even the most powerful telescope, can see. In fact there's a fundamental limit to how much of the universe we could ever observe, no matter how advanced our visual instruments. The universe is thought to have formed about 13.7 billion years ago. So even if light started travelling toward us immediately after the Big Bang, the farthest it could ever get is 13.7 billion light-years in distance. There may be parts of the universe that are farther away (we can't know how big the whole universe is), but we can't see farther than light could travel over the entire age of the universe.
Mysterious motions
Scientists discovered the flow by studying some of the largest structures in the cosmos: giant clusters of galaxies. These clusters are conglomerations of about a thousand galaxies, as well as very hot gas which emits X-rays. By observing the interaction of the X-rays with the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is leftover radiation from the Big Bang, scientists can study the movement of clusters.
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The universe is just big enough to contain everything, and no more.
another catastrophism type ping
“Just go with the flow, Shel.”
“What flow? There isn’t any flow!”
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there’s some very dark flow going on right there...
No kidding...
Bump for later. You bet!
Yeah.
Like Species 8472.
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Nope. It's just hand-waving by a bunch of folk who have observed something they can't explain.
In earlier times, they'd have said it was "magic" or "witches". These days, it's "dark matter", and "dark energy".
Same old thing dressed up in modern language.
Interesting !!
Yet I think God would rather have us progress from witches to dark energy, and hence show that much appreciation of His ongoing.
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Hmmmmm
God moved a corner of the scroll? Amazing time indeed!
aaaah, you caught my drift....
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