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To: tophat9000; Chances Are
>> if all started with a “big bang” from one point then shoun’t all galaxys be expanding away from that point and each other?

> You are not supposed to ask questions like that.

In general you're correct, the universe is expanding.

However, in the expansion, there's still lots of opportunity for individual pieces to mix and recombine, dance around each other, etc. That's how structures like spiral galaxies formed in the first place -- they weren't created as spirals and so forth from the beginning -- they gained their shapes over immense stretches of time. On a smaller scale, explosions of huge stars or groups of stars stir the pot, black holes create distortions, etc. It's incredibly slow and stately, one might say graceful, in the literal sense of being an expression of God's Grace.

The Creation is beyond our comprehension, but it sure is pretty, and fun to marvel at.

14 posted on 06/03/2012 9:54:01 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

“However, in the expansion, there’s still lots of opportunity for individual pieces to mix and recombine, dance around each other, etc.”

That’s what I also learned about the local bar down the street!


15 posted on 06/03/2012 10:14:59 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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