Posted on 03/31/2011 11:50:50 AM PDT by LibWhacker
“Just as a fish may be barely aware of the medium in which it lives and swims, so the microstructure of empty space could be far too complex for unaided human brains." -- Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, physicist, Cambridge University
Our known Hubble length universe contains hundreds of millions of galaxies that have clumped together, forming super clusters and a series of massive walls of galaxies separated by vast voids of empty space.
Great Wall: The most vast structure ever is a collection of superclusters a billion light years away extending for 5% the length of the entire observable universe. It is theorized that such structures as the Great Wall form along and follow web-like strings of dark matter that dictates the structure of the Universe on the grandest of scales. Dark matter gravitationally attracts baryonic matter, and it is this normal matter that astronomers see forming long, thin walls of super-galactic clusters.
If it took God one week to make the Earth, going by mass it would take him two quintillion years to build this thing -- far longer than science says the universe has existed, and it's kind of fun to have those two the other way around for a change. Though He could always omnipotently cheat and say "Let there be a Sloan Great Wall."
The Great Wall is a massive array of astronomical objects named after the observations which revealed them, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. An eight year project scanned over a quarter of the sky to generate full 3-D maps of almost a million galaxies. Analysis of these images revealed a huge panel of galaxies 1.37 billion light years long, and even the pedantic-sounding .07 is six hundred and sixty billion trillion kilometers. This is science precisely measuring made-up sounding numbers.
Sloane_9: This isn't the only wall out there -- others exist, all with far greater lengths than width or depth, actual sheets of galaxies forming some of the most impressive anythings there are. And these walls are only a special class of galactic filaments, long strings of matter stretched between mind-breaking expanses of emptiness.
Some of these elongated super clusters have formed a series of walls, one after another, spaced from 500 million to 800 million light years apart, such that in one direction alone, 13 Great Walls have formed with the inner and outer walls separated by less than seven billion light years.
Recently, cosmologists have estimated that some of these galactic walls may have taken from 80 billion to 100 billion, to 150 billion years to form in a direct challenge to current age estimates of the age of the Universe following the Big Bang.
The huge Sloan Great Wall spans over one billion light years. The Coma cluster (image above) is one of the largest observed structures in the Universe, containing over 10,000 galaxies and extending more than 1.37 billion light years in length.
Current theories of "dark energy" and "great attractors" have been developed to explain why a created universe did not spread out uniformly at the same speed and in the same spoke-like directions as predicted by theory. But as Sean Carroll of the Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics at Cal Tech is fond of saying, "We don't have a clue."
Britain’s Astronomer Royal, Lord Rees, says some of the cosmos’s biggest mysteries, like the Big Bang and even the nature of our own self awareness, might never be resolved. Rees, who is also President of the Royal Society, says that a correct basic theory of the universe might be present, but may be just too tough for human beings’ brains to comprehend.
Meantime, we’re all standing on a little ball of dirt, mud, rock & minerals, hurtling through space with other balls of stuff hurtling along with us and stuff sometimes hurtling at us; with the threat that some beings from another ball of mud & stuff are circling about our little ball of mud wanting us to take them to our leader. :O/
The first thing that came to my mind in reading the title and the excerpt was the ‘Mirror of the Heavens” theory that claims that most of the great ancient structures we see here on earth were built to mirror the heavens.
Was the Great Wall of China meant to mirror these great walls in the Universe?
Just a random thought and not meant to be taken that seriously.
Stunning.
****the microstructure of empty space could be far too complex for unaided human brains.” — Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, physicist, Cambridge University****
But not for God....You silly Martin;)
You arent going to find many scientists who admit they know very little.
"I wonder where that fish has gone.
You did love it so. You looked after it like a son.
And it went wherever I did go.
Is it in the cupboard?
Yes! Yes! No!…
Wouldn’t you like to know? It was a lovely little fish.
And it went wherever I did go.
It’s behind the sofa!
Where can that fish be?
It is a most elusive fish!
And it went wherever I did go.
Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
A-fish, a-fish, a-fish, a-fishy, ooooh.
Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
That went wherever I did go."
---from the movie "The Meaning of Life"
Uh...it didn’t take God six days to create the universe, the Bible says He did it in an instant...He used six days to form the Earth, and to fill it. He could have done that in an instant as well, if He had chosen to.
Can you provide chapter and verse?
Didn’t these guys ever read “Horton Hears a Who”?
This is what electric/plasmo cosmology predicts; its a big mystery only to those stuck with outdated theories.
I wonder if atheists believe in the infinite.
Notice the language of the next several verses. He created light, He divided the light from the dark and called "one day".
From verse 5 on, he describes how He formed the land masses, filled the Earth with plants and then animals, and then created man.
He was such a wonderful and humble genius. Which in effect WAS his genius. He believed in God with out prejudice.
It has always been a big problem for me that these “scientists”, claim that the “Big Bang” thrust all matter to it's current position in the Universe in a matter of seconds, when we can only observe these formations in relation to the speed of light and currently see them as they were over a Billion years ago.
I am inclined to agree with Einstein's first model was based on a stable, infinite Universe that has always been here and was not the product of a cosmic explosion that violates all Universal law. Hawking, Susskind and String Theory can pound sand.
Our question today comes from a person at Cambridge University. Those French are an inquisitive bunch. ‘What is the largest structure in the universe?’ Well, Bobby, as you know, observation is important in science. The good scientist is always aware of what is going on. Why are you screaming? Oh...I’m sorry....I didn’t see your foot there. Our questioner writes about clusters and vast tracts of empty space. Hmmmm. I was at Denny’s this morning and saw Joy Behar eating Honey-Nut Clusters. And there can’t be anything but empty space between her ears. ‘What is the biggest structure in the universe?’ The answer is...Joy Behar’s big, empty jug of a head. I hope to someday go to Rome and see Cambridge University. Jolly good!
Humans are the “Billy Bass” of the Universe....
Atheist I have met believe in mortality, nothingness, however I find it ironic that the only concept the human mind cannot even start to imagine is that of nothingness, a black void is something a chalkboard for light if you will, the point is, nothing has never existed as a reality, God has always been...yes grasshopper you are welcome...peace in Christ..he’s got your back...
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