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The Hubble Space Telescope Just Captured An ‘Einstein Ring'
Tech Times ^
| 04/09/18
| Carl Velasco
Posted on 04/09/2018 7:06:43 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: Simon Green
Oh goody!
Does that mean it gets another free ride?................
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:09:23 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:12:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
To: Simon Green
Well now, calling it an “Einstein” certainly gives it a ring of authority. The implications are astronomical.
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:15:55 AM PDT
by
Migraine
((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
To: Simon Green
distortion in the fabric of space and time..you mean moons?
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:17:22 AM PDT
by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: Simon Green
I think the ‘rings’ are caused by the limit of our technology.
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:17:28 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Simon Green
One ring to fool them all....
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:19:23 AM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: P8riot
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:23:33 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: Simon Green
To: Simon Green
"...a distortion in the fabric of space and time." Distorting space, possibly. A better phrase would be visual distortion.
Distorting time? Impossible.
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:25:52 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: P8riot
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:28:10 AM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
To: Migraine
Calling it ‘a ring’ will only make this the fondest dream of any soon to be bride.
That Einstein guy was pretty darn smart if he birthed this hypothesis.
The mysteries of space are awesome indeed.
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:28:50 AM PDT
by
V K Lee
(Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
To: Simon Green
hundreds of galaxies caught in each other's gravitational pulls. Didn't I just read that all the galaxies are moving away from each other? Now they aren't ?
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:30:31 AM PDT
by
oldbrowser
(The fruit of the poison tree should invalidate any of the mule's findings, right ?)
To: rjsimmon
...Distorting time? Impossible.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time
...in a relativistic universe, time cannot be separated from the three dimensions of space. This is because the observed rate at which time passes depends on an object’s velocity relative to the observer. Also, the strength of any gravitational field slows the passage of time for an object as seen by an observer outside the field.
To: HangnJudge
Regardless of where you are in the universe, the time is always now.
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:35:15 AM PDT
by
Phlap
(REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
To: Simon Green
I'd always heard that an "Einstein ring" is when you put black ink on the end of the eye-piece of a telescope so that the next guy who uses ends up with a black circle around his dominant eye.
That guy was such a practical joker
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:35:43 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: rjsimmon
Time distortion is not only possible, it’s necessary. Space and time are interlinked at the cosmological level, and distortion of one distorts the other. At very high speeds, time distorts significantly (passes slower). At high spatial distortions, the same thing happens, such as at the event horizon of a black hole.
To: Phlap
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:48:14 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: WayneS
I’m pretty sure that you’re thinking of the “Galileo Ring”, which failed to lighten the mood of the Roman Catholic Inquisitors.
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:54:18 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: oldbrowser
Didn't I just read that all the galaxies are moving away from each other? Now they aren't ? No, you didn't just read that all galaxies are moving away from each other - unless you were perusing a "dumbed-down" article about it in "Ladies Home Journal" (or even "Tech Times").
[...] hundreds of galaxies caught in each other's gravitational pulls.
That statement is itself an overgeneralized, popularized, dumbed-down version of the actual astronomical truth.
Regards,
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:58:14 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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