What is our place in the universe? Scientists map our galactic supercluster and give it a name, Laniakea.
How much bigger and more beautiful are our heavens than the ancients could have imagined.
What is our place in the universe?
by jgnat 20 Replies latest social current
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galaxie
The reality cancels the myth.
Our place is no more than literally where we are.
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designs
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cofty
Very cool!
I wonder what accounts for the shape of the cluster.
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Twitch
Scientists map our galactic supercluster and give it a name, Laniakea.
Cool. An upgrade from the Virgo Supercluster.
I've been intrigued by the Bolshoi project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmcvFmlkYjY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbDwROjykpQ
http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/Bolshoi/
Grand indeed.
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prologos
The big bang theory holds that all this was once very small, a single point. and we, our constituents were in THERE, one way or another, we were once at the center of the universe, and in a sense we still are. looking in all directions, the universe, the background radiation looks remarkably even, the local apparent giants in our field of vision, like the moon, the sun, the galaxy, Virgo, Laniakea notwithstanding.
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Twitch
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prologos
yes, we might be ~1/100 000 off center, or having a velocity bias because of the first irregularities in the expansion. at one time called "the hand of God" by the exuberant COBE researchers / discoverers.
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prologos
Twitch, true, I did not imply 'EVEN' but as it appears ~BALANCED, and the view is from the center, over the planet, where the observatories were located, floated, orbited.
Imagine the earth at the center of these images.
The geo-centric view of the ancestors was based on the earth's rotation, the world was apperently revolving around us,
the new earth-centered view's illusion is flawed too, despite these and other deep field pictures.
Seen from anywhere in the Universe at any time, you could get the impression, looking far enough* , that you are central to this great edifice.
yes, we are the center of the universe, but not the only one.
* back in time and space.
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jgnat
Big bang is old school, prologos. It was a two-bang creation. One bang should have resulted in evenly distributed matter. We don't have that. What we have is swirls like the surface of a soap bubble just before it pops.
