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Hello Orca What logical traps? Well, it all goes back to Newton and before, when they were kicking around the idea of gravity and a static universe. Now this is before they knew about galaxies. The mind experiment went something like this: if you have an a static universe full of stars, gravity wou...

The first part I garee with, but not the add on. What does smaller mean in an infnite universe. Is the universe infinite? Is it also static? If so how does it avoid gravitational collapse? Remember, even before Newton this was a struggle...people 'wanted' the unvierse to be infinite, but there are ...

Qev wrote: There you go saying "just a theory" again. Everything in science that isn't an observation is a theory, and no theory can ever be proven, only supported or falsified.

Exaaaactly! Nicely put, Qev!

Mate, If you think that the Big Bang is it so be it. By next year the theory will be exposed. Its onlly a matter of time. Exposed? You make it sound like a conspiracy! :-) If BBT is found to be inaccurate, and the tests that prove it to be inaccurate can be replicated throughout the community, then...

Hello Orca You are assuming that there is a start to all this and that the BBT is correct. In my opinion, there was never a start and there will never be an end. Just a process of recycling and evolution of stages and phases of the objects within the universe. But! you statement maybe correct withi...

Me too, harry.. Though it seems to me that it would be really weird if gravity didn't propagate at the speed of light. After all, the other 3 forces have been unified...somewhat...the electro-magnetic force and the weak force were actually referred to as one electro-weak force in one of my textbooks...

Hello All I thought the only thing that can go faster than light is the propagation of gravity. Harry: respectfully, I thought that both GM and QR supported the idea that the propagation of gravity, via gravitons, occurs at exactly the speed of light. Mind experiment: If the sun were "plucked&...

Sounds kind of like a "glass half full" "glass half emtpy" sort of an argument.

Perhaps if a dense region of one galaxy got close enough to a dense region of the second, there'd be some interaction. But I doubt there would be much for the majority of the stars in each respective galaxy. Though the overall structure of a galaxy sure does seem to get "stirred up." I ima...

I prefer the 'pan-galactic gargle-blaster,' but that's just me. 8)

Astro, it just doesn't seem like it adds up! :( The Chandrasekhar limit is only 1.4 solar masses. While it is true that many stars that have much more mass are able to lose enough of it, usually you can see some trace of it, like a planetary nebula or remnants of a supernova. Shouldn't the Sirius sy...

Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, is in fact a binary star system. There are two stars...Sirius A, a main sequence white-blue star, and Sirius B, a small companion thought to be a white dwarf star. I never thought much about it...but something occurred to me of late. Why would a white dwarf be ...

Well, at this point we might as well let the moths out of the jar and really wreck this movie, eh!

Wow, that's pretty amazing! Look at the less-defined rings that extend far beyond the "easily observed" ones...

Uh oh, spammers are getting through...hopefully hopefully the 'DaAPOD' forum won't get ruined like the Cafe did.

Cool, cosmo...how bright did the magellanic clouds seem to your naked eye? I've always wondered about that...

Unless I am missing something...if all or most stars formed via the "neutron star seed" method, you'd think there would be an easy, readily available way or ways for neutron stars to fragment...or very few stars.

Yeah, SWAN sure is a gorgeous comet. Just think of the odds...that we happen to be the ones that see it's single pass? 8) This is an all-time favorite of mine: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060806.html I am not usually a fan of B&W because so often, the colors are so beautiful...but in this...

That's an interesting idea...a rogue comet, flung out of one solar system, travels for hundreds of millions of years...and then happens to "skip off" another star system somewhere else... Inter-stellar hot potato! Another thought: scientists say that the examination of comets and other sol...

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The universe has no edge in what ever logic you use. If you use man's maths than maybe space/time is a derivative, but ! time, actual time cannot be changed. Cannot be lengthen, shorten or given different dimensions. You just as well prove that santa clause is true. Time is relative. Time moves mor...

Yeah that is a gorgeous photo. It's a goal of mine to see the auroras someday. I was in Alaska once...but it was in July, so the sky never even got dark.

Yeah, I can't wait! I hope it happens on a clear night..

Again -who the heck is the IAU :roll: We can reject their decision and set precedence for future attempts. Seriously –Pass it on “R-E-J-E-C-T-E-D”!!!! Political agendas should not enter into astronomy. It took us too long to overcome religious agendas. That is my final say in this matter---Just say...