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Evidence for Universe Expansion Found
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| 3/16/2006
| MATT CRENSON
Posted on 03/16/2006 11:31:54 AM PST by The_Victor
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....growing from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space in less than a trillion-trillionth of a second.That's one heck of an expansion rate.
To: The_Victor
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:32:25 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(Are you not entertained? Are you NOT entertained? Is this not what you came here for?)
To: The_Victor
It's all trying to get away from Chuck Norris.
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:33:07 AM PST
by
pcottraux
(It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
To: The_Victor
What is it expanding into?..........
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:33:31 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: The_Victor
That's one heck of an expansion rate.
I don't know so much about that......Have you seen Sally Strothers lately? Helluva expansion rate!
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:33:59 AM PST
by
jrg
To: The_Victor
Well, that might even be faster than the speed of light. Is that possible?
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:35:45 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
To: The_Victor
"....growing from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space in less than a trillion-trillionth of a second."
Doesn't that break the "speed limit"?
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:36:22 AM PST
by
Pessimist
To: The_Victor
I was hoping someone would post this article. WMAP is providing a great deal of info for cosmologists and now it seems to back a version of inflation. Interesting to think of our entire local galactic cluster as a former microscopic quantum fluctuation.
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:36:34 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: pcottraux; peacebaby; LongElegantLegs
It's all trying to get away from Chuck Norris. LOL
Chuck Norris ping
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:36:38 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: The_Victor
Don't laugh. Maybe this is a dumb question, but wouldn't there be a giant void in the center of the universe somewhere? Anyone who has seen a giant explosion knows what I am talking about. Also, wouldn't everything near us be going in the same direction? Also, the stuff across town would be going in the opposite direction.
Just some wimpy thoughts.
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:36:51 AM PST
by
SQUID
To: ClearCase_guy
The speed of light is not involved in inflation.
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:37:10 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: Pessimist
Doesn't that break the "speed limit"? The space itself has no mass, so it's not subject to the "limit."
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:38:14 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: RightWhale
The speed of light is not involved in inflation. Why not?
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:38:27 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: PatrickHenry
Cosmology ping.
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:38:27 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
(I have the updated "Your brain on creationism" on my homepage.)
To: SQUID
Valid question. We seem to be in a universe with no center, or with infinite numbers of centers everywhere.
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:39:00 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: The_Victor
Chuck NOrris is expanding?
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:42:37 AM PST
by
peacebaby
("What? Me worry?" Alfred E Newman)
To: The_Victor
You sure that's a "valid" reason?
Photons don't have any mass, doo they? And they still obey the limit.
Plus - and admittedly I'm sketchy on this - when they talk about "space" expanding, it seems like what they really mean is "the extent of matter" expanding. Otherwise, like someone else here asked, "expanding into what?".
To: ShadowAce
Why would imply some kind of decision. It was decided that the speed of light would be immaterial when space itself inflates. When space itself moves, deforms, contracts, expands, the physics of our day-to-day world does not apply because there is no reference, although relativity attempts to address some of the observations.
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:43:45 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: SQUID
Also, wouldn't everything near us be going in the same direction? Also, the stuff across town would be going in the opposite direction. Good question. You just rediscovered the "redshift." Objects at a distance are moving away from us, and the further away they are the faster away they are moving, everything near us moves away slower. It's like blowing up a balloon. If you put dots with a marker on the surface and then blow it up, the distance between the dots increases, even though the dots don't move. And the further away the dots are to start with, the faster they move apart.
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:43:55 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: The_Victor
WMAP also measured variations in the cosmic microwave background so huge that they stretch across the entire sky.OK, what on Earth (excuse the pun) is that supposed to mean? Variations so huge that they what?
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posted on
03/16/2006 11:44:42 AM PST
by
Zeppo
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