Posted on 06/17/2021 1:44:52 PM PDT by LibWhacker
What’s the rotational speed in RPM?
I’ve read something about this elsewhere. I do believe that the filaments are indeed rotating.
Recently I read (or skimmed) an article that claimed there were rogue planets out there with liquid water on or near the surface (from internal heating I suppose). Wouldn’t be good for humans, but it might be okay for some forms of life. If you lived there, you’d think it was just peachy.
Yep, I’ve seen that before. The universe as a brain. It’d take forever for a thought/impulse/signal to travel from one side of the brain to the other, but when you have eternity...
Good sci fi book from the 50s called “The Black Cloud” which is roughly about that. I read it last year.
Yep, I had to look it up. Absolutely looks like a comic book representation of the universe, and I love it!
Yep... The highways of the universe. :)
Absolutely agree, Plasma.
From the original article in Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01380-6):
The filament rotation speed as a function of the distance between galaxies and the filament spine. The rotation speed is calculated by c × Δz, where Δz is the redshift difference of galaxies at given distance with respect to the redshift of the filament. The distance of galaxies from the filament spine in the receding region is displayed in red and ascribed positive values, while the distance of galaxies in the approaching region is marked in blue and ascribed negative values. Error bars represent the standard deviation about the mean.In other words, rotation speed is about ±100 km/s max depending on the distance to the galaxies in question in the filament spine and whether the rotation is taking them toward or away from us... is how I read it. I'd have to read it much more carefully to be sure (not happening, lol)!
This only seen in the imagination of the researchers. I don’t think there are any structures as one would visualize, only paths that the galaxies seems to follow and clustering of galaxies along lines with voids between them.
So it sounds like maybe one rotation in the history of the universe?
My bicycle crank rotates faster than that!
I know! Veeeery slow. I was surprised.
“Uh oh...human brain cells: “
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I had the exact same thought.
The Universe just keeps getting Messier.
That simulated does suggest a neural network. Interesting implications.
:-)
The idea of a conscious universe, conscious stars, conscious planets have been kicking around for a while.
One of the problems with science is that they will be totally unable to identify or understand this phenomenon if it exists, because they won’t even know the correct questions to ask.
Science is based on repeating experiments based on identical initial conditions—whenever it bumps against consciousness that methodology is a total failure.
We will need a new way of thinking, a new type of analysis, to evaluate these types of issues.
Terence McKenna is someone who has thought a lot about these issues. He argues in favor of telos in the universe, that everything in the universe has a purpose and is not a random event. If he is correct the question that should be asked is “what is the purpose of x” and stop focusing on x looks like that or x moves like that or x is made of that.
The analogy I like to use is that if science bumped into a radio and knew nothing about it, they would take it apart to try to find the little talking people in it.
Bad assumptions lead to ridiculous analysis—and imho that is where the “settled science” is part of the problem and not part of the solution.
(end of rant)
Wow...That was powerful analysis with the greatest of brevity. Bravo!
Looks like neuron connections in a brain.
Exactly.
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