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Posted on 08/18/2018 8:10:32 PM PDT by EdnaMode
It's been nearly a century since scientists first theorized that the Universe was expanding, and that the farther away a galaxy was from us, the faster it appears to recede. This isn't because galaxies are physically moving away from us, but rather because the Universe is full of gravitationally-bound objects, and the fabric of space that those objects reside in is expanding.
But this picture, which held sway from the 1920s onward, has been recently revised. It's been only 20 years since we first realized that this expansion was speeding up, and that as time goes on, individual galaxies will appear to recede away from us faster and faster. In time, they'll become unreachable, even if we journeyed towards them at the speed of light. The Universe is disappearing, and there's nothing we can do about it.
When you look out at a star whose light arrives after traveling towards you for 100 years, you're seeing a star that's 100 light years away, due to the fact that the speed of light is finite. But when you look out at a galaxy whose light arrives after traveling towards you for a journey of 100 million years, you're not looking at a galaxy that's 100 million light years distant. Rather, you're seeing a galaxy that's significantly farther away than that!
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
To paraphrase Einstein: “Anyone who can’t explain it simply, doesn’t understand it.”
Wrong concept and disgusting gif.
Lighten up, Francis. Of course it’s the “wrong concept”. Those were Chicken Nuggets and it was a joke.
Indeed, and let’s hope so, but I am definitely not going to church.
Whose Francis? Don’t care what was being flushed, toilet humor is disgusting to me.
Shift the focus ... join The Church which is the body of Christ, not an org or institution. BE part of The Church, the body of believers in Him ... see you in the clouds, bro.
I do believe in Jesus. He saved my life. I will tell anyone who asks what He did for me, and that He is real.
As far as church goes though, no. That place is of men. There is nothing there for me. It is corrupt. I wish that it was not, but it is.
See you in the clouds too. You will find me where the dogs are.
Well, that is one problem I do not have. My wonderful, beautiful wife of 45 years meticulously searches my pockets before washing my anything, and nothing has ever gone into the washing machine.
I am indeed blessed.
I often set things down unconsciously, or place them somewhere to pick up later, and either stumble across them in time, or after much thinking trying to remember (works enough that I must not have Altzheimer’s), or just keep praying.......
3 of my sons are mathematicians whose dinner discussion is higher math that leaves me blank-faced.
Tonight our eldest son (degrees in Math, Computer Science, Physics and Greek) was explaining tonight at our family dinner (typically 15 - 22) that even math is based on theories and axioms THAT CANNOT BE PROVEN.
So much for the idea that everything can be proven or disproven by math......
Look up the Continuum Hypothesis on Wikipedia where mathematicians are taking opposite sides on it in a big ongoing debate.
As Conscious said in the fortune cookie,you will find what you lost at the last place you look.
I usually find what I’ve lost when I am not looking for it but doing something completely unrelated and simply stumble across it........
Which is NOT the last place I look, since I quit looking before the stumbling upon it occurs.......
So Confucius be wrong.........
Argue with the fortune cookie makers ... racist!
I ain’t no racist.
My ancestors moved from Virginia to Macon Co. TN in 1802 when my great x4 grandfather received a 2,000 acre land grant for fighting in the Revolutionary War. Over 600 acres of that land is still in the family.
And guess who they fought with in the “Civil War” - the Union.
So there!
That's why it's best to discuss such things with your bowling buddies Friday night in the bar. They could probably add some further insight that articles such as this seem to leave out......
Especially if any of them are named Cliff? You know, the guy who writes the "Notes"? Cheers!
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