Posted on 03/20/2002 6:47:11 AM PST by dead
By the way, on your link, what are the units for speed of light? kmh can't be kilometers per hour - that's too slow.
"All things, by immortal power, near or far
Hiddenly to each other linkèd are;
That thou cans't not touch a flower
Without troubling a star."
--Francis Thompson, The Mistress of Vision
Nope Just had dinner at the restaurant at the end of it last week (Or many Billions of years in the future... depending on your perspective)
LOL! Didn't even see that. Its kilometers/second!
Why do you say this?
It's not infinite. There is a theoretical end to the known universe.
It is expanding like a balloon expands, everything goes farther out, and individual galaxies move farther away from each other as the universe expands. The essential qualities of space include: gravity, the strong force, the weak force and electromagnatism. Without these forces, time and space cannot exist.
No he isn't. That's just a reflection of his first post, like those galaxies in post 47...
So what's on the other side? You know, the "non-universe" side?
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My guess is that this theory will get swept under the astronomic rug.
Interestily what relitiviy predicts is that you would see you tail lights function as normal. However the light from all the stars in front of you would be squished and you would they would see a shift to blue.Ligth from stars in the rear would appear to be streched out and would appear to be more red.
Unlike most star trek movies you would still see the stars appear to be relitively stationary. If astronomers are correct in saying that the the nearest start is many light years away that it would still take many years for you to pass that star while the surrounding starts would have moved so little you would hard pressed to notice.
LOL! Damn, I just lost $5 to my friend here, I said it was Hope, Arkansas.
Have a great day.
In addition, I understand that black holes have a gravity well that is not that wide, but exceptionally steep once entered. Perhaps this configuration means that most of its own gravity is swallowed up at long distances.
Ordinary stars may pull on every other object in the universe, but black holes only pull (with their full strength) on things inside their event horizons. Things outside are pulled on with a quantum tithe of gravitry, i.e.- Only those gravity "waves" able to escape the event horizon due to the fluctating nature of the quantum world near the edge of the event horizon.
Whut U ThAnk?
Ditto! But couldn't the Big Bang have been God's Way of starting the Ball rolling and further how does the Cow Flatulence/GlobalWarming/Oceans Rising theory fit into god's plan?
Like I've said before "Cows Farting and causing the Oceans to rise and wipe out New York City, L.A., and San Francisco seem very comforting."
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