New candidate for most distant object in universe

www.physorg.com ^ | 05-25-2011 | Provided by Pennsylvania State University

[Red Badger]

Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA/NASA/ Levan, Tanvir, Cucchiara, Fox

VIDEO AT LINK...............

[Red Badger]

Ping!...........

[KoRn]

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[circlecity]

"A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite in April 2009 has been newly unveiled as a candidate for the most distant object in the universe."

That would be impossible to prove. At best it would be the most distant VISIBLE object in the universe.

[kevkrom]

New candidate for most distant object in universe

What is Barack Obama's connection with reality?

I'll take "Dear Reader" for $1000, Alex.

[Abathar]

I’m just here to watch the fur fly between the 6k year old crowd and everyone else...

[Raycpa]

I thought this was another birth certificate thread.

[WayneS]

John Edwards’ sense of shame?

[WayneS]

What lies beyond the most distant object in an infinite universe?

[Raycpa]

If Adam was created a full grown man with speech ability and gardening skills then a universe created “in place” would be a lesser miracle.

[grumpygresh]

What lies beyond the most distant object in an infinite universe?

0bama’s new home (and it’s not heaven).

[newheart]

May I nominate someone for the honor of being the first to explore GRB 099429B? It'll make the world's billions of Muslim scientists feel all warm and fuzzy.

[calex59]

Here's a question for the scientists here. If this light comes from a galaxy far, far, away and it is the light from billions of years ago when our universe was supposedly much smaller than it is now, why does it register at such a great distance? Wouldn't the light register as being a much closer source if it was from a time when that galaxy was closer to us?

Also, how can they make statements such as "the universe is still expanding and accelerating when the light they are looking at is billions of years old? The universe could be screaming back at us for all we know since the info we have on these distant galaxies is billions of years old and not very up to date.

[Red Badger]

What lies beyond the most distant object in an infinite universe?>

[Red Badger]

It has been moving away from us at the same time we have been moving away from it. Like two dots on a deflated balloon move apart as they balloon is inflated...........

[Steely Tom]

Here's a question for the scientists here. If this light comes from a galaxy far, far, away and it is the light from billions of years ago when our universe was supposedly much smaller than it is now, why does it register at such a great distance? Wouldn't the light register as being a much closer source if it was from a time when that galaxy was closer to us?

Because space itself expanded. Time expanded too. The whole thing's expanding like a bat out of hell. Billions. Trillions. It's like the National Debt.

There. Does that answer your question?

[UCANSEE2]

PING to a related and interesting thread.

[swain_forkbeard]

“What lies beyond the most distant object in an infinite universe?”

I have always been fascinated to wonder what lies beyond the boundary of a FINITE universe.

[UCANSEE2]

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[calex59]

Does that answer your question?

Nope, because the light is still billions of years old and does not represent what is going on NOW and cannot possibly tell us that the Universe is still expanding and it doesn't answer the question about how light from a closer source(the source being billions of years old)should register as being farther away. If the light started out billions of years ago the distance to it's source should measure much closer because at that time it was much closer, unless the speculation as to the size of the Universe at that time is wrong.

Much of the crap about the Universe is speculation.