Is Earth In A Vortex Of Space-Time?
"I certainly hope so."
Posted on 12/06/2005 11:34:47 PM PST by jb6
Galaxy Song
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
"So the Earth is at the center of the Universe?'No. I am.
The story: A NASA/Stanford physics experiment called Gravity Probe B (GP-B) recently finished a year of gathering science data in Earth orbit. The results, which will take another year to analyze. The dimples this fabric, much like a heavy person sitting in the middle of a trampoline.
My comments: Don't these guys have anything better to do?
First of all, anytime you see the name NASA, you can bet its taxpayer dollars being shot down the old boodoggle black hole, never to be seen again. Hmmmm.. lets see. According to the Professor it took a year to gather the data and another year to analyze. Gee, if we try real hard Professor Everitt, maybe we can stretch the time continuim of this boondoggle for maybe two or three more years. I think your car should be paid off by then.
and what is this statement about the "tremendous mass of Earth" ? Hello ? The Earth, in space terms, is a speck of dust. The mass of the Sun is 333,000 times that of the Earth. I am going to go out on a limb here and state that I think the Sun may have a greater impact on the space/time continuim than our little pea size Earth. Sure, I agree that all objects that contain mass have some net effect including creating its own little vortex, but do we really need coneheads to state the obvious.
Here is an example of how bonehead this project is. If I had a 100 ft diameter trampoline and I threw a tiny little green pea (Earth) onto it, I am sure one could measure the impact through instruments but not visibly. Now if I threw my mother-in-law (the Sun) on the same trampoline, now we are talking impact.
"I certainly hope so."
Worst economy since Hoover, so I suppose anything's possible.
I bet there's a physicist out there who will say, "the speed of light is constant, but it is not consistent."
lol, which is how I'd put it, if I were a physicist.
"What is that picture from?"
Why, from that almost-great-but-just-that-side-of-lameness 60s TV Sci Fi drama THE TIME TUNNEL.
You kids don't know what you missed. And maybe it's better that way.
Loved that show. Remember the episode where Tony(?) wnet back and saved his Dad at Pearl Harbor?
Seriesly, they need to bring back that whole Sci-Fi genre (complete with omnipresent pseudo-computer-cascading-light-panels in the background):
I'm having a favorite "Land of the Giants" flashback moment here.
Vast Tracts of Land!
Can ya zoom in a little tighter? LMAO!
/sarc
I'll wait and see what the Intelligent Design people have to say about the space-time continuum before I believe what I see.
Oooh, true dat.
...The nature of infinity is this: That every thing has its
Own Vortex; and when once a traveller thro Eternity.
Has passd that Vortex, he percieves it roll backward behind
His path, into a globe itself infolding; like a sun: Or like a moon, or like a universe of starry majesty,
[...]
Or like a human form, a friend with whom he livd benevolent.
(William Blake, Milton, pl. 15, 21-27).
Hey, if you're going to mention my name, at least have the decency to ping me (especially if pics of scantily clothed hot babes are involved.)
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