In the shipyards we used to say 'the job's gone ratchet' - I'm quite sure much of this physics has. There wasn't much point in speaking to you 13.7 billion years back Slip - that was the 'deaf age'. I'll get the lads due to repaint Orion's Belt to spread a dust-sheet between Centaurus and Vela on their next shift. Sorry about the mess old chap.
On 26 Jan, 22:52, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm beginning to wonder if dollars might be better spent on getting > Kashlinsky and his colleagues something more constructive to do. It > seems they just have too much time on their hands. And for what end > purpose do we use this information that in all actuality I could have > told you about should you had simply asked, besides I tried to tell > everyone about it 13.7 billion years ago but no one would listen. I > was the first to forecast the inflation concept but when I mentioned > dark flow they just thought I was talking about crude oil and it's > affect on inflation. It was exhausting and so I had finally succumbed > to the Szzzz effect. Oh and by the way please tell them to close the > window, the space dust is getting in. {;-] > > On Jan 25, 3:26 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The universe is unimaginably vast. But not for cosmologists. They feel > > decidedly hemmed in. No matter how big they build their telescopes, > > they can only see so far before hitting a wall. Approximately 45 > > billion light years away lies the cosmic horizon, the ultimate barrier > > because light beyond it not has not had time to reach us. One needs > > something of a calculation here as we think the universe is only 13 - > > 16 billion years old - and there is one that works. So, stuck inside > > our patch of universe, wondering what lies beyond and resigned to that > > fact we may never know, the best we can hope for, through some > > combination of luck and vigilance, is to spot a crack in the structure > > of things, a possible window to that hidden place beyond the edge of > > the universe. Now Sasha Kashlinsky believes he has stumbled upon such > > a window. > > > Kashlinsky, a senior staff scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight > > Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has been studying how rebellious > > clusters of galaxies move against the backdrop of expanding space. He > > and colleagues have clocked galaxy clusters racing at up to 1000 > > kilometres per second - far faster than our best understanding of > > cosmology allows. Stranger still, every cluster seems to be rushing > > toward a small patch of sky between the constellations of Centaurus > > and Vela. This may be a window on what lies beyond the universe and > > new explanations of dark flow, with something beyond what we have ever > > seen being responsible. One might tell more, but small minds might be > > corrupted ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
