Cluster tucked at the far reaches of the Universe

[Swede]

The cluster, called JKCS041 — evidently all the cool names have already been taken — was discovered in 2006 and subsequently observed by Chandra. The image above also includes observations by the Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the Digitized Sky Survey. In this image, the blue glow is from X-ray-emitting hot gas between galaxies, and the white galaxies are from the optical and infrared observations.

The image doesn’t look like much, but it’s scientifically amazing. When light left those galaxies, the Universe was only about 3.5 billion years old! Remember, for a long time the whole cosmos was just gas, and that took a long time to collect, clump up, and form stars and galaxies. It’s currently thought that it took a few billion years for clusters of galaxies to form after the Big Bang, so JKCS041 looks like it was an early bloomer. We may find even more distant clusters, but there probably aren’t too many more out there, and they almost certainly won’t be much farther away than this one.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/22/cluster-tucked-at-the-far-reaches-of-the-universe/

[villager]

1. The universe is a clustertuck!?

well, that does sort of explain things...

[wroberts189]

3. Yes ..it is order arising out of chaos.... Chaos theory

The missing ingredient...? The information needed to make it all possible.


Find that source... and you find God.

[villager]

6. well stated, though might we not be headed straight back to chaos

...in the overall scheme of things?

[wroberts189]

7. Perhaps... but one thing is for sure "change"

Like taxes and death.


-Hawking is rethinking all his theories.

-Recent story (true google it)... Leading physicists are questioning whether the large Hadron collider in Europe is self-sabotaging itself from the future so it does not create particles which could destroy the Universe.

-They have proved electrons can communicate faster then light through some unknown "ether". Quantum entanglement I believe it's called.

Spooky physics is here to stay. As one DU'r commented ... paraphrasing ..the big picture may be to weird for us to even comprehend.

[Delphinus]

10. I remember reading about

the Hadron collider story - I found it fascinating! In fact, I find "spooky physics" really engaging.

[wroberts189]

11. They have proved certain particles can comunicate....

Across light years instantaneously.


I wish I had a link... but this was several years ago.


Questions were ..is it the same particle in two places at once so fast we do not perceive it?

Is it a particle at all or a wave?

Could the whole universe be one particle/wave resonating through everything that is running at hyper-light speed?

Now you are hearing words.. like "quantum computing" and how they know how to do it it ....just a matter of price.

And its all based on spooky physics. Newton's theory is no longer operative. Einstein.. about to dim out like a candle although he was headed in the right direction. He knew time was relative...and that is spooky. Time was always considered a constant across the Universe.

Now we know its not.

But if you can slow down time and speed it up... you can go backward imho. Or take a time machine into the future at least. If you had the tech.

Getting back may be a problem...

But who knows..? I do know an open mind is a good thing to have.

[phasma ex machina]

8. LOL nt

[JuniperLea]

2. Oh boy! Did I read that title wrong!

:rofl:

[Aramchek]

4. Now that's a Headline!

[Ian David]

5. If they can't think of a name, I suggest The Colbert Cluster.

Or Milliways.

[HillWilliam]

9. Milliways +1

:rofl: