Posted on 02/05/2015 1:55:50 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Scientists working on Europe's Planck satellite say the first stars in the Universe lit up later than was previously thought.
The team has made the most precise map of the "oldest light" in the cosmos.
Earlier observations of this radiation had suggested that the first generation of stars burst into life about 420 million years after the Big Bang.
The new Planck data now indicates they fired up around 560 million years after the Universe got going.
"This difference of 140 million years might not seem that significant in the context of the 13.8-billion-year history of the cosmos, but proportionately it's actually a very big change in our understanding of how certain key events progressed at the earliest epochs," said Prof George Efstathiou, one of the leaders of the Planck Science Collaboration.
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it's a blink of an eye for G O D ..
and a kick in the schwartz for science
What is clear from the Planck investigation is that the simplest models for how the super-rapid expansion might have worked are probably no longer tenable, suggesting some exotic physics will eventually be needed to explain it.
“We’re now being pushed into a parameter space we didn’t expect to be in,” said collaboration scientist Dr Andrew Jaffe from Imperial College, UK. “That’s OK. We like interesting physics; that’s why we’re physicists, so there’s no problem with that. It’s just we had this naïve expectation that the simplest answer would be right, and sometimes it just isn’t.”
The young Earth = 6000 years old crowd is going to have a hard time with this.
If the ‘Big Bang’ was in all directions from the starting point, more or less equally, then wouldn’t stars going in the opposite direction from our viewpoint seem to be ‘older’ than they actually are?..................
OK — So what took the universe so long to “get going?”
Damn, that changes everything.
“If the ‘Big Bang’ was in all directions from the starting point, more or less equally, then wouldn’t stars going in the opposite direction from our viewpoint seem to be ‘older’ than they actually are?..................”
Ya gotta get away from the “starting point” ref. Think of the surface of a balloon which is expanding. No matter what point you iz...all dose otta points am going away from U.
And dat’s the twuth!
And wouldn't we be able to look in one direction in the universe and say "that's where it all started."
We haven’t found the middle, and we haven’t found the edges. So that leaves us sorta pointing and shrugging.
What if there is no middle and no edges? What if it just goes on infinitely? That would mean that Whoever made it is...even bigger.
and wouldn’t we be able to look in the opposite direction and see those same stars coming at us?...............
and wouldn’t we be able to look in the opposite direction and see those same stars coming at us?...............
Obviously I don't understand but to get to where we (the mass of from supernova) are today looking back towards the origins of the universe means that matter had move across a very large space very quickly.
Space warp? Lol.
For a group of that ridicules “faith” and places “science” upon their highest altar, scientists certainly place a lot faith in things they cannot directly observe.
Decaf in the caf pot?
Where da heck did all the space come from for this baby to bust forth into in the first place?
From a pinhead to a universe.. Just add H2O and Run Like heck!
Scales of time mask the immensity of our lack of understanding of this thing we call physical universe. Anything over billions of beers.. Uhhh... Years is pretty intensive to absorb as a mortal is my suspicion.. And our curse if you will.
The latest polarization images resemble sunlight cast from the chrome rims of my spinning bicycle wheel. It is possible that the fossil “light” being observed is cast from a torus or ring, like the death star in the remastered version of Star Wars. To be the “big bang,” the original (older in either case) version of the death star explosion is needed.
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