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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: anymouse
This is amazing and leads me to speculate in a science fiction meme....
This anomaly is 6-10 billion light years from us. That means 6-10 billions years AGO. The Earth and Solar System are only 4-5 Billion years old, so this anomaly is far older than everything we see and everything that sustains us. This alone is, imho, mind-boggling.
So what caused it?
Suppose a far earlier civilization, one as advanced from ours as we are from amoebas, decided to alter the universe in some way on such a grand scale, that the area of their experiment was a billion light years across. But something went horribly wrong. Perhaps they wiped out all matter in that experiment within the confines of the billion light year hole, and the hole is what remains, or more specifically, does NOT remain of them?
Perhaps the artifact is the consequence of an experiment that worked, and the super-beings vanished into another dimension, leaving only the void.
Perhaps it is some slowly growing, widening anti-blob that is inexorbinatly heading towards us, but we can only see the event as it existed then, and as new photons head our way, the hole will suddenly appear to be 5 billion light years across--and coming our way!
To: anymouse
This is where all those lost socks go.
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:37:38 PM PDT
by
Ol' Sox
To: Paladin2
The real story is they don't understand the universe, for instance there is no such thing as "dark matter" it just means their calculations don't match what's out there. This big area with relatively nothing in it is just the latest of many observations that indicate they are far far away from understanding the universe.
The scientist in the article says "this is not normal". Uh, I beg to differ. It quite obviously is normal.
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:37:49 PM PDT
by
Williams
To: anymouse
Wow! How in the heck did Rove and Bush pull THIS off?
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:39:42 PM PDT
by
Bullish
( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
To: newzjunkey
Soooo Global warming is melting galaxies?
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:40:34 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(What kind of lunatics abort their own babies to make the labor force dependent upon illegal aliens?)
To: anymouse
Shouldn’t gas fill the vacuum?
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:40:49 PM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Paladin2
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:41:55 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(What kind of lunatics abort their own babies to make the labor force dependent upon illegal aliens?)
To: EternalVigilance
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:41:59 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
To: anymouse
Sounds like the Death Star has been there.
To: Talking_Mouse
There are still gases, escaped planets, stars, moons, asteroids, other celestial bodies floating around in intergalactic space (mainly gas).
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:42:41 PM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: anymouse
The hole is nearly a billion light-years across...Damn! That's BIG!
To: anymouse
>>Not only has no one ever found a void this big
This has been replicated in Pelosi’s head.
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:46:58 PM PDT
by
Joe Bfstplk
(What you said is exactly what you intended to say.)
To: eastforker
Syntactically, there would be one universe.
For the idea of parallel and multiple universes, technically those universes would be part of the universe.
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:47:04 PM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: anymouse
it's also strangely empty of the mysterious "dark matter" that permeates the cosmos. Dark matter. Is that kind of like the "ether" that used to exist back in the late 19th and early 20th century? You couldnt' see it, but it was there and everything that was "destroyed" went into it. Funny how science can come up with invisible things when it needs to explain the impossible.
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:47:31 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
We need to tap that source of gas asap.
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:47:59 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(What kind of lunatics abort their own babies to make the labor force dependent upon illegal aliens?)
To: Talking_Mouse
The gaps bigger than the distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda by something on the order of 1000 times, IIRC.
To: JoeSixPack1
That really is a whole lot of hole.
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:49:35 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(What kind of lunatics abort their own babies to make the labor force dependent upon illegal aliens?)
To: anymouse
We have only been to our Moon in person.This goes to show that “GOD IS GREAT”!!!!!!!!!!!...........
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posted on
08/23/2007 5:50:02 PM PDT
by
GitmoSailor
(AZ Cold War Vet===Fairness Doctrine for TV First!!!!!.....I'Am With Fred)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
...technically those universes would be part of the universe.Consistently correct, but please don't tell any Mexicans!
To: anymouse
I think the Reavers live there (obscure “Firefly/Serenity” reference).
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