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Hello mark swain, Your points of concern do not go unnoticed. However, for me anyway, The Universe, the Earth, and all the microcosms, are complex and somehow interwoven at a level that I have difficulty perceiving. Add in the fast pace of societies and one could easily see how hard it sometimes is ...

Hello neufer and Chris,

Once again, many thanks for staying with it. Very sensible answers and logic that is understandable to boot. I'm grateful to be a member of this Forum during a time when so much in the way of knowledge, coupled with all the images, is so available to us all.

Hello again, So as a follow-up it then seems as the expansion rate has out distanced the gravitational attraction over time in spite of the mass-concentration of the Shapley Supercluster, what speeds! Is there anything you can add WRT the area called the Great Attractor? Maybe it's speed relative to...

Hello Chris and neufer,'

Grear stuff! Thank you both.

Hello bystander, WOW! Pinch me now, I had no idea. Nyert, nyert nyert. By the way, thank you especially, and others, for the updates on the Mt. Wilson drama. Looks as if it's ending well except for the fatigue of the Firefighters and their fallen comrades, not to mention the poor vegetation, trees, ...

Hello All, I'm curious.The Milky Way, along with a ton of other Galaxies, is moving about 1.4 million mph toward the Shapley Supercluster (which is estimated to have the mass of around 10,000 Milky Ways) via the so-called Great Attractor which is in front of it. 1.) For the sake of orientation, is t...

Hello All,

Now look, I'm having enough trouble assimilating the physics of the turtle into my equations as it is so try not to muddy things up okay? Honestly, I think sometimes you guys do these things on purpose just to try and confuse me. Elephant-indeed!

Hello Chris,

DAMN...good call, I forgot about the turtles.

Hello All, Boy, I dont know, let me think about this for a minute.............OKAY, WAIT!...... I GOT IT! The solution to cosmology is this: The Universe is flat and everything is falling off the edge!.......nah......I KNOW!........The Universe is flat and everything is being PUSHED off the edge!......

Hello Chris, Thank you for clearing up a long-standing question I've been turning over for some time now. That being whether or not direction of motion plays a roll in the slower-clock issue. And that of spacetime curvature as well. Also, you are absolutely correct (if it was you) in saying that the...

Hello THX1138,

Out running those android cops was very cool on your part. Good thing the were over budget, eh? BTW how tall was that ladder anyway?

Hello All, I know that relative to us a body in motion will appear to have a slower clock. So is that all it is? A clock that only appears to run slower? IF that were true (a really big "IF"), what part would the curvature of spacetime play in having a clock "appear" to run slowe...

Hello neufer,

Thank you, Good stuff!

Hello All,

Anyone for tri-oculars? Triangulation works in locating geo objects as well as gaining accurate info on one's position. Kind of a 3-D (2D?) locator if you will.

Hello neufer,

neufer wrote:Space-time, itself, is constantly cascading into a black hole.

Agreed.

neufer wrote:A black hole is the antithesis of a state of rest.

Not agreed, not fact. Simply because all opinions beyond the event horizon, no matter how learned, are open and subject to debate- mine included!

Hello Chris, Thank you for your information and the relief that I'm not as wacko as some might think. As pretty much a person educated basically by this Forum it is reassuring that as I sit and think, trying to put pieces of info and logic together, that on rare occasions I do get moments where the ...

Hello All, Since it looks as if new threads are becoming somewhat more prevalent why not add to the pile! This idea follows the gravity well concept in the the arena of BH phenom and is (hopefully) to encompass the observations of jets and accretion discs. WRT Gravity and deep Gravity wells, specifi...

Hello makc, Thanks for bringing back to light the thread I started, it was getting pretty far back in the pack there. I remember a poster, whom I'm sure most of you will recall, whose handle was JimJast. He at that time postulated that expansion (or rather the illusion of it according to his way of ...

Hello neufer, Bumper , n. [A corruption of bumbard, bombard, a large drinking vessel.] A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. Funny that you included this definition. Some years back I read that the Calif. H.P. watched red cars mo...

Hello BMAONE23, Thanks. It looks as if it could be something like a techonic echo of some kind. Maybe a large cake of ice got heaved sideways. If so, perhaps similar structures are evident on other objects with similar makeup or even rocky surfaces that have "wrinkled", displaying a closer...

Hello All,

I dunno, looks like a lot of foot traffic around it....................monkeys?

Hello All,

Good observations, I like the volcano idea. Also, is it just me or does the right edge of the more recent large impact crater in the southern hemisphere have a profile very similar to the right side of the older impact crater beneath?

Hello Chris,

Chris Peterson wrote:We can never see beyond the observable universe, by any means.

Well, d'uh.

Hello mark swain, Good questions all. It's rather sad that I'm trying to explain a speculative concept but it's too late to stop now. Gravity in a sense is a state of rest and the only way to detect a state of rest is to measure everything around it that is not in a state of rest. hat is why I think...

Hello Chris, But expansion due to a relatively concentrated Gravity field that is itself expanding is the point I'm attempting to make. I don't follow that point. Well, I was thinking along the line that Gravity, presumed to be the first horse out of the gate after t=0, laid down the groundwork or b...