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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.
God is eternal. The Universe is eternal. These two theories hold no contradiction for me.
If they do for you, then this is a personal problem you will have to work through yourself. I cannot help you.
Have a nice day.
If the Universe is eternal, God didn’t create it and there was no “in the beginning”.
So whoever this God is who didn’t create in the beginning, it wasn’t the God who “in the beginning” CREATED.
That is all.
Have an excellent day.
It’s always fun when
the RELIGION OF PSEUDO-SCIENCE
discovers some hint of its limitations.
Well, since PHysicists don’t knbow how dimension space caem about, they are really dipping their pens in murky ink to assume something has taken 80 to 150 billion years to develop to our current visual point. I have a cosmological conception which takes this into account and specifies how dimensions space and time manifested from God’s command. A Hint: space manifested first from point to linear and the energy of God’s command followed this method, then time grabbed hold (when God said ‘Light Be’) and planar then volumetric space manifested. Time is a volume and space is a volume, but the lesser expressions of either still exist within the volumetric where/when.
Bolder Dam? ... See you Wednesday at Perkins.
thank you for that, made me laugh
Wow it’s april Already................
Monk’s Mound Cahookia Il is the largest manmade structure in the lower 48
Fascinating! That must be the granddaddy of all the mounds of the mound builders.
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