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News Update In late 2005, a team of astronomers engaged in a X-ray survey called the Clusters in the Zone of Avoidance (CIZA) project revealed that the Milky Way is not being drawn towards a concentration of mass called the Great Attractor but to an even more massive region behind it called the Shapley Supercluster, which lies around 500 million light-years away or four times the distance to the Great Attractor. Over the two decades since the discovery of the Great Attractor, subsequent observations at infrared wavelengths indicated that the Milky Way not, in fact, bring drawn towards the Great Attractor. Indeed, the CIZA team reported that the Great Attractor actually has only about a tenth the mass that was originally estimated (IFA press release; Maggie McKee, New Scientist, December 15, 2005; Kocevski and Ebeling, 2005; and Kocevski et al, 2005).
Originally posted by spikey
reply to post by Magnum007
I have always thought your sun=nucleus, planets=electrons, solar system = atoms etc to hold a lot of weight.
I have been using the term Multiverse for some time now, as a result of this.
It is starting to be seriously considered that each universe, is akin to each galaxy, as each galaxy is akin to each solar system, right on down to the atom and electrons and beyond.
Personally, i don't think the LHC will discover the boson particle to be the 'God particle' as they sometimes put it, but rather the will be surprised to learn that there are subdivisions within it, going on further and further down to the infinite.
I think the same could be true of the multiverse(s), there will not be a single multiverse, or collection of universes that make up a multiverse, rather an ever increasing collection of multiverses, that go on to make a megaverse, that go on to make a gigaverse, and so on.
Yes, it's mindbogglingly huge, and difficult to comprehend.
Originally posted by Solasis
Originally posted by soficrow
Originally posted by Solasis
reply to post by soficrow
Wild specualtion linking this completely unrelated thread to your interests?
Uh huh. But FYI - in my mind, NOT unrelated.
Happen to just love info that gets the gears turning - speculatively or otherwise.
Up with Speculation! Down with Dogma!
I know. I was just kidding around I completely respect your speculation -- I just think it's kind of silly It's interesting, actually; just totally out of nowhere XD
Originally posted by Damian-007
What if the Planets and Galaxies aren't moving and it's the Matter that's actually Moving?
Originally posted by spikey
reply to post by savvys84
Good phrase.
What's the father of knowledge, if curiosity is the mother of knowledge?
Existence i guess? Or conciousness.
I know because i exist. Hmm...Conciousness is the Father of knowledge?
Can't decide..procrastination is a bugger.