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 ...
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