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Parker wrote:Could we see this image with a mouse-over that labels which objects are Abell 2218, and which are lensed galaxies? Clarity for the uninitiated. Thanks. Great image!

moonstruck wrote:
Lawdy, Lawdy, Miss Clawdy, It's hard to believe all this is happening out there. We just sit here spinning around on our little bitty planet earth thinkin we is the most important happening in the whole wide universe and really we ain't doodly squat in the whole scheme of things.

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  • ___ The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
  The spat where the fragments of the bust had been found was only a few hundred yards away. For the first time our eyes rested upon this presentment of the great emperor, which seemed to raise such frantic and destructive hatred in the mind of the unknown. It lay scattered, in splintered shards, upon the grass. Holmes picked up several of them and examined them carefully. I was convinced, from his intent face and his purposeful manner, that at last he was upon a clue.
  
  "Well?" asked Lestrade.
  
  Holmes shrugged his shoulders.
  
  "We have a long way to go yet," said he. "And yet--and yet-- well, we have some suggestive facts to act upon. The possession of this trifling bust was worth more, in the eyes of this strange criminal, than a human life. That is one point. Then there is the singular fact that he did not break it in the house, or immediately outside the house, if to break it was his sole object."
  
  "He was rattled and bustled by meeting this other fellow. He hardly knew what he was doing."
  
  "Well, that's likely enough. But I wish to call your attention very particularly to the position of this house, in the garden of which the bust was destroyed."
  
  Lestrade looked about him.
  
  "It was an empty house, and so he knew that he would not be disturbed in the garden."
  
  "Yes, but there is another empty house farther up the street which he must have passed before he came to this one. Why did he not break it there, since it is evident that every yard that he carried it increased the risk of someone meeting him?"
  
  "I give it up," said Lestrade.
  
  Holmes pointed to the street lamp above our heads.
  
  "He could see what he was doing here, and he could not there. That was his reason."
  
  
  "By Jove! that's true," said the detective. "Well, Mr. Holmes, what are we to do with that fact?"
  
  "To remember it--to docket it. We may come on something later which will bear upon it.

• ____ A Bell - 221B [Baker Street]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bell wrote:
<<"Joseph BELL, JP, DL, FRCS (2 December 1837 – 4 October 1911) was a Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. He is perhaps best known as an inspiration for the literary character Sherlock Holmes.

He was a great-grandson of Benjamin Bell, a forensic surgeon. In his instruction, Bell emphasized the importance of close observation in making a diagnosis. To illustrate this, he would often pick a stranger and, by observing him, deduce his occupation and recent activities. These skills caused him to be considered a pioneer in forensic science (forensic pathology in particular) when science was not often used in the investigations of crimes.

Arthur Conan Doyle met Bell in 1877, and served as his clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Doyle later went on to author a series of popular stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, who Doyle stated was loosely based on Bell and his observant ways. Bell was aware of this inspiration and took some pride in it. Bell served as personal surgeon to Queen Victoria whenever she visited Scotland.>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Six_Napoleons wrote:
<<Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a seemingly trivial problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse Hudson’s shop, and two others, sold by Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the doctor’s house and branch office had been burgled. Nothing else was taken. In the former case, the bust was taken outside before being broken.

Holmes knows that Lestrade’s theory about a Napoleon-hating lunatic must be wrong. The busts in question all came from the same mould. Why is he breaking them?

The next day, Lestrade calls Holmes to a house where there has been yet another bust-shattering, but there has also been a murder. Mr. Horace Harker found the dead man on his doorstep after investigating a noise. His Napoleon bust was also taken by a burglar entering through a window. It, too, was from the same mould. Also, a photograph of a rather apish-looking man is found in the dead man’s pocket.

The fragments of Harker's bust are in the front garden of an empty house up the street. Obviously the burglar wanted to see what he was doing, for there is a streetlamp here, whereas the bust could have been broken at another empty house nearer Harker’s, but it had been dark there.

The mystery is at last laid bare after Holmes offers £10 to the owner of the last existing bust, making him sign a document transferring all rights and ownership of the bust to Holmes. After the seller has left, Holmes smashes the bust and among the plaster shards is a gem, the black pearl of the Borgias.>>

León wrote:The photon has no mass therefore can not be attracted to any body. ...

León wrote:The photon has no mass therefore can not be attracted to any body.

enb wrote:Why are the thin, lensed galaxies in the pic blue?
Wouldn't you expect the lensed galaxies to be extremely red, redder than the orangish abbel galaxies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell_2218 wrote:
<<Abell 2218 is a cluster of galaxies about 2 billion light-years away in the constellation Draco. Acting as a powerful lens, it magnifies and distorts all galaxies lying behind the cluster core into long arcs. The lensed galaxies are all stretched along the cluster's center and some of them are multiply imaged. Those multiple images usually appear as a pair of images with a third — generally fainter — counter image, as is the case for the very distant object.



The color of the lensed galaxies is a function of their distances and types. The orange arc is an elliptical galaxy at moderate redshift (z=0.7). The blue arcs are star-forming galaxies at intermediate redshift (z=1-2.5). The encircled very red pair is the newly discovered star-forming galaxy at about redshift 7.>>

León wrote:The photon always drawn the line, if not impossible to do with definition would be galaxies away, we'd see the warped universe, something like that shows the image of the cluster. Ergo the gravity does not reach the photon.

León wrote:Sorry for using the Latin word "ergo", commonly used in Castilian corresponding later (por tanto- luego-pués)

http://denisdutton.com/einstein_eddington.htm wrote:

León wrote:Sorry for using the Latin word "ergo", commonly used in Castilian corresponding later (por tanto- luego-pués)

León wrote:The conclusion is supported by what comes out of the picture. Corresponds to a larger work that I have published in Castilian. Mr. Petersen, please mark the solid theories based on observation than those of Eddington vitiated by apparent falsehood to pretend to support the predictions of Einstein. From already thank you very much.

Martin wrote:Can gravitational lensing alter the red-shift of light?