On Oct 11, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Horace Heffner
<[email protected]> wrote:
"Thanks to Galaxy Zoo's database of volunteer-generated
classifications, we
now know that spiral galaxies do not have a preference for rotating
clockwise or anti-clockwise, and that for the time being at least,
our
current theories of how the Universe works are still valid."
Huh? Isn't this simply a matter of perspective? The observer above
sees clockwise while the one below, widdershins.
Terry
Surely it means isotropically, i.e. from any chosen pole of reference.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
