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Huge Hole Found in the Universe
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| 8/23/07
| Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 08/23/2007 4:56:57 PM PDT by anymouse
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To: Bullish
maybe is the area that the mothership and louis hangout
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posted on
08/25/2007 10:49:06 PM PDT
by
Taffini
(Mr. Pippin and Mr. Waffles do not approve)
To: anymouse; TASMANIANRED
The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise. The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it's also strangely empty of the mysterious "dark matter" that permeates the cosmos. Other space voids have been found before, but nothing on this scale.
Astronomers don't know why the hole is there. They have named the anomaly FICA.
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posted on
08/25/2007 10:54:29 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
To: spunkets
I did. I quoted it and bolded the contradiction.
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posted on
08/25/2007 11:12:01 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: burzum
"This defines how a particle will move with a force." Hey, that's great! You found an old textbook. Good for you.
...But explaining that a mass will move when a force is applied, while useful, fails to explain *where* the Force itself derived its energy.
Which is to say, while you managed to post some rudimentary formulas from a text book, you failed to deal with my point about the origin of the energy for the Force in question.
You are starting to show a glimmer of promise, though. Good try. Keep up your self-confidence and self-esteem. Keep trying.
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posted on
08/25/2007 11:15:18 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
The bold doesn't show up here. I had to view source to see what you were talking about. THere's more energy in a cm
3 of vacuum, than there is in the entire universe. The big bang can be seen as a phase transformation of the vacuum energy at a critical point. A steam bubble forming in the bulk of a huge pot of boiling water is a good analogy. The bubble expands and returns to the bulk configuration at the boundaries.
In the case of perpetual motion machines, there is no conservation of energy in the process. Losses are simply ignored, or handled with hand waiving jestures and BS.
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posted on
08/25/2007 11:54:49 PM PDT
by
spunkets
("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
To: spunkets
"THere's more energy in a cm3 of vacuum, than there is in the entire universe." - spunkets Ring, Ring!
"Self-contradiction hotline, may I help you?!"
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posted on
08/26/2007 6:25:32 AM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
The universe's mysterious big cold spot
by Chris Lee
ArsTechnica
August 27, 2007
A preliminary analysis suggested that this wasn't the case and that maybe we were looking at a cold spot on the last scattering surface. Now, however, astronomers from the University of Minnesota have turned up evidence that the cold spot is likely local and "just" an empty spot in the universe. In research to be published in Astrophysical Journal, the scientists present the results of observations of the cold spot with radio telescopes. They found that the spot is devoid of sources of radiation. A thorough analysis shows that, at the distance of interest, there is a 140MPc region of space that is pretty much empty of everything.
The probability of such a void occurring is, well, astronomically small. Nevertheless, it seems to be there and it doesn't seem to be due to anything cosmological in nature. An astrophysical mystery that we shall treasure while it lasts.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:55:21 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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09/03/2007 6:44:34 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: anymouse
To: crazyhorse691
I thought the only way to stop the nothing was to name the princess.
To: anymouse
They have a pretty exact number for age of the universe: 13.7 billion years they tell us, and they give a fairly exact size of this hole: NEARLY 1 billion light years across, but then they say this hole is between 6-10 billion light years from earth. I don’t know how they could determine the size of the hole when they can’t narrow the distance down any better than that. It’s like someone looking through binoculars at a tree and saying “that tree is nearly 100 ft tall but I can’t tell if it’s 10 miles away or 20 miles away. Doesn’t make sense to me.
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