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Originally posted by America Jones
Basically, the article describes how the molten core of the earth is like a dynamo.
Originally posted by ghostryder21
sorry for stating an idea. i thought the story was kinda intresting but never bought into the whole thing. i wasnt trying to debunk anything, i wasnt stating that it was going to happen i just thought it was an intresting side note.
Originally posted by junglelord
thats not a new idea, galaxy collisions are real life events and not surprising we are part of one
either way we are now a part of the Orion arm of the Milky Way and will collide with Andromada in the future, billions of years of now....
just like our collision was billions of years in the past
Originally posted by Scienceguy
Puzzlingly, the O.P. said: "Sorry Wrong Galaxy"
the Curezone article does indeed have it right.
O.P. said "Segdeg" and for us to get a true handle on the proper reference, it is actually Sag DEG. There are a number of smaller galaxies that are similarly named and it is not all that hard to get them mixed.
Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy.
It started out being called just Sagittarius Dwarf and then in 2003 they did the infrared all-sky survey and discovered the entire loop shaped structure enabling the creation of the new star map. The new star map helped to trigger the latest discoveries, and brought our understanding to a new level.
The Milky Way is considered to be formed around Sagittarius "A" with black hole at the center.
There are allot of very bright people on these forums but what we should not just allow is for entrenched ignorance based on outdated science to go unchallenged no matter how many feathers it ruffles.
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[edit on 22-6-2007 by Scienceguy]
Originally posted by Scienceguy
Why worry about the nailbiting details just yet?
Originally posted by Neon Haze
Hi there all,
Firstly I want to clarify to all those with a panic head on, this has absolutely nothing to do with 2012 or any other numerology or religious / metaphysical related topics.
Nor I might add is this spectacle unusual as it it conforms to standard cosmological models.
I can assure you that this phenomena is squarely a physics issue and has no mystical properties other than perhaps the mystic of beauty.
In fact in about 4 billion years the milky way is very likely to completely merge with Andromeda (M31) Galaxy... a process that will take about 1 billion years to complete.
Due to the size of M31 it is very likely much of the milky way will be destroyed and re-made.
Not including dark matter calculations Andromeda mass may total around 350 billion Solar masses
Andromeda's core has a supermassive central black hole of around 30 million Solar-masses
The Milky Way’s super massive black hole has and estimated 4 million solar masses, much less than M31’s core.
The resulting gravitational waves that will occur when the two cores meet will be felt across the entire visible universe.
All the best,
NeoN HaZe
Originally posted by Scienceguy
given the fact that we have never before merged with another galaxy insuch a manner.
[edit on 23-6-2007 by Scienceguy]
Current theories of galaxy assembly suggest that many -- perhaps all -- of the stars in the halo and thick
disk of the Milky Way originated in smaller dwarf galaxies, which were dissolved when they merged into
the Milky Way itself. "The new dwarfs are really just the crumbs from the galactic feast," says Zucker.
"Most of the merging happened early on -- billions of years ago -- and what we're seeing here are the
leftovers."
Originally posted by laiguana
Our solar system wasn't around when the galaxies collided right? Well I know the earth wasn't...I don't know about the sun...forgot how old that fella was. But I would think that the time this mini galaxy first smashed into the milkway it would have been way before our solar system was pooped out. Well I guess I'll look it up somewhere.
Originally posted by Toelint
Did I read that article right? I swear in one quote, the writer says we've experienced no less than EIGHT rotations around the Milky Way, at an off-angle...and then in another quote, the writer says our course will change and we'll join our galactic brethern on a permanent equatorial rotation.
Well, I gotta ask...which is it?