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Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
To me, one big thing is that we are travelling at over 2milliion miles per hour (exceeding the speed of light), which violates a major rule of physics.
Originally posted by Phage
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
To me, one big thing is that we are travelling at over 2milliion miles per hour (exceeding the speed of light), which violates a major rule of physics.
The speed of light is 671,000,000 mph.
(in a vacuum)
[edit on 8-11-2008 by Phage]
It has long been known theoretically that it is possible for the "group velocity" of light to exceed c.[19] One experiment in 2000 made the group velocity of laser beams travel for extremely short distances through caesium atoms at 300 times c.[20] In 2002, at the Université de Moncton, physicist Alain Haché sent pulses at a group velocity of three times c through a 120-metre cable made from a coaxial photonic crystal.[21] However, it is not possible to use this technique to transfer information faster than c: the velocity of information transfer depends on the front velocity (the speed at which the first rise of a pulse above zero moves forward) and the product of the group velocity and the front velocity is equal to the square of the normal speed of light in the material.
Exceeding the group velocity of light in this manner is comparable to exceeding the speed of sound by arranging people distantly spaced in a line, and asking them all to shout "I'm here!", one after another with short intervals, each one timing it by looking at their own wristwatch so they don't have to wait until they hear the previous person shouting. Another example can be seen when watching ocean waves washing up on shore. With a narrow enough angle between the wave and the shoreline, the breakers travel along the waves' length much faster than the waves' movement inland
Originally posted by StellarX
Or God just told these widely separate galaxies to move in this one direction at the same speed independent of their distance from it? Clearly anything goes here!
Stellar
Originally posted by logician magician
I'm not even going to give you the time of day,
nor respond to all of the empty and contrived things you've just said.
I can see you're happy being some kind of odd combination of a nihilist-solipsist theologian.
Have fun battling science for the rest of your life...
Originally posted by TheWayISeeIt
Could somone explain to me the implications of this in terms of it 'rewriting physics'? Layman like, please.
Originally posted by cruzion
Originally posted by TheWayISeeIt
Could somone explain to me the implications of this in terms of it 'rewriting physics'? Layman like, please.
Well, the current model of the universe is the big bang theory, and from that explosion, our universe has been steadily expanding, like a balloon.
This observed phenomena (extra-universe influences) doesn't fit with that model. The main problem with the big bang was where did that matter and energy come from in the first place!
Likewise, the fact that ~90% of the matter in our universe is not visible, and only barely detectable is another cause for bafflement.
There is a recent development in studies which, due the distribution of matter in the universe, points to our universe being a leak from another universe. It would seem matter escaped that universe and bubbled out to form our universe. There may well be multi-extra-universe universes out there, hence their influence upon our system.
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
Anything is possible out in deep Space, far beyond our abilities to even think about visiting far way Planets and the dark skies.
Humans think in Terms of Alpha and Omega... a beginning and an end, but that is simply NOT the way it works.
There was NEVER a "beginning of matter; it always has existed and always shall."
Everything is controlled by electricity and "flushes" non-stop. We change from liquids to solids to gasses and back, all the time.
There are NO Limitations to Space; it goes on forever and ever and everything in it has movement of one form or the other in order to exist.
Man is the ONLY animal that screws up EVERYTHING he touches and always tries to improve on;
of course, his silly attempts to improve on Perfection ALWAYS backfire. man needs to learn to "leave it alone."
In the not-too-distant Future, trhe Earth shall get top-heavy from the non-stop accumulation of snow and ice at our North Pole and then one day, right on schedule, it shall once again "Rapture" and tip over on its side like it has done a number of times in the Past.
Animals grazing in the Tropics suddenly find themselves freezing to death at the NEW North Pole. Seaside Villages like Machu Pichou suddenly have a water level drop of thousands of feet as mountain ranges suddenly upheave.
Islands rise and/or disappear. Volcanoes erupt, floods occur, Species disappear in one day.
Mother Nature takes over when she has enough and things go back to "normal" once more. (Natural Perfection; leave it the hell alone!")
Originally posted by squiz
I'm sorry for not jumping on board with this amazing discovery, this is a good example of the state of the broken gravity centric view of the universe.
The universe is made mostly of electrified plasma that create vast magnetic fields that can stretch for millions of light years.
The article right at the beginning makes this analogy "On the outskirts of creation, unknown, unseen "structures" are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets".
Cosmic magnets is probably more closer to the truth than they think. Electro magnetism is billions and billions of times stronger than gravity.
Doesn't have an effect in space though.
Instead of it standing as a refutation of the Big Bang theory another, yes, yet another untestable, unprovable idea without any basis in reality is once again thrown into the mix to keep a broken model alive. One that has grown so ridiculous future humans will look back at our generation like flat Earthers.