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that must be why R.E.M. broke up.
Wow?
Per CNN Twitter.
that must be why R.E.M. broke up.
Never a fan of political science.
45 minutes and only 3 replies? (one by the OP?) Holy crap this is awesome! I am trying to temper my excitement just a little until it is independantly verifiied by a bunch of other scientists, but if true it opens up a whole lot more. Thanks for the info Manny... I will have to figure out a way to follow this. Is this what twitter is for?
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Wow. This seems neat.
Einstein a dumbass?
And now, let's go back in 2001, shall we ?
That's what you get when you learn physics from a math failure.
Since the particles were clocked at 300,006 kilometres per second (that's just a tiny fraction faster than the speed of light, 299,792 km/sec), I think waiting for confirmation would be prudent.
If verified, it would be really interesting, although doesn't necessarily contradicts Einstein.
There's various theories on how you could travel faster than light by manipulating space-time (Alcubierre drive, traversable wormhole). They just haven't really been investigated much seeing nothing was found (at least up to now) to travel faster than light.
Be cool to see Agloco weigh in.
Still too slow for travel, would take me 10 billion light years to get to XMMXCS 2215-1734.
Massive galaxy cluster found 10 billion light years away
June 6, 2006
A University of Sussex astronomer is the lead researcher for a project that has led to the discovery of the most distant cluster of galaxies observed to date. The cluster, which is 10 billion light years from Earth, is also likely to be the most massive yet found at such an early era in the Universe.
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When Dr Kathy Romer set up the study eight years ago, she thought she was taking a huge gamble. "Although we predicted that we would find clusters at such large distances, we had no guarantees that we'd find any."
Dr Romer, whose team includes Sussex astrophysicist Professor Andrew Liddle and colleagues at other UK and American ins utions, used observations from the European X-ray Multi Mirror (XMM) Newton satellite to find this new cluster and then determined its distance using the 10-meter W. M. Keck telescope in Hawaii. "But its not just telescopes that are needed for a project like this,'' comments Dr Romer. "We have also taken full advantage of recent advantages in computing; from new image processing algorithms to the falling price of disk storage."
When viewed with an optical telescope, the distant cluster is revealed as a dense gathering of hundreds of galaxies. "The surprise here is that the galaxies in this cluster are built up from old stars; one would expect that such a distant cluster would be full of new stars, since we are viewing it so far back toward the Big Bang," says Dr Romer. "Clusters like this are vital to our understanding of how galaxies formed."
The cluster, named XMMXCS 2215-1734 is surprisingly massive, weighing approximately 500 trillion times the mass of our sun. Most of the mass is "dark matter," a mysterious form of matter that dominates the mass of all galaxies and clusters in the Universe but cannot be seen by telescopes. Romer and her team are continuing the search for more clusters like XMMXCS 2215-1734 in the XMM-Newton data archive. They already have more than 1000 other candidate galaxy clusters that require confirmation using ground-based optical telescopes. Ultimately they will use their collection of clusters to better understand the physics of the Big Bang.
While the search for more clusters continues, the team will be studying XMMXCS 2215-1734 in more detail, with all the tools available. Already images have been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of this exciting object. The galaxy cluster is a fossil of the early Universe and, therefore, will be treasured by all astronomers, says Dr Romer.
Source: University of Sussex
They had other scientists independently verify the results before releasing the data because it was so opposite of the fundamentals. They're now asking scientists in the US and Japan to try and duplicate the results.
like this always reminds me how much of a geek/nerd I am. When I read this I was like wow thats the biggest news of the day. Then I realized all anyone cares about is like facebook and Obama waving.
It is travelling faster than the speed of light so it would take <10B light years...
What I really want to know is how soon can we translate this discovery into warp drive
We just need all those neutrinos to push a cart!
lol Usain Bolt
Lefty - my nig - who's the fine piece of meat in your sig?
^^ God bless you and your family son.
nailbiting stuff
Thank you!
(seriously I was looking for her name)
We're not worthy.
You two need to go to tineye.com and get their plugin for your browser.
This is how I found it:
http://www.tineye.com/search/53f2b64...ver=safari-1.0
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