John;
1.4 million MPH is at least a small fraction of light speed, so the good
news is we'll all live a little longer; the bad news we're all a little
shorter (lengthwise).
That speed must generate considerable lift since other astronomers just
reported that the edges of the galaxy are flapping.
The observation that "two widely spaced attractors imply a better
distribution of mass (instead of one large one)" is not limited to
astrophysics.
If there is a "return run", BOAKYAGB because it means the Universe is
collapsing!
Lance
----- Original Message -----
From: <john.szalay@att.net>
To: "landspeed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:08 AM
Subject: OT: Maybe ? 1.4 million MPH
> Now how do we clock the return run ? :-)
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> UH clocks Milky way's 1.4M speed
>
> HILO HI; The Milky Way galaxy, which includes Earth and the sun, is being
> pulled toward an enormous mass of galaxies a half-billion light-years
> away,
> University of Hawaii astronomers have confirmed with X-ray studies.
> The result is the entire Milky Way is moving through space at 1.4 million
> mph.
> Astronomers have known for decades that the Milky Way was being pulled
> by something really big called "the Great Attractor."
> But they could not see this hypothetical attractor because they would have
> to look through the Milky Way to do so. Visible light just could not get
> through the dusty, cluttered galaxy.
> Now UH astronomers Dale Kocevski, Harald Eberling, and R. Brent Tully,
> along with UH alumnus Chris Mullis, have seen through the galaxy looking
> at X-rays that pass through space dust the way they pass through human
> flesh.
> Kocevski announced their work Tuesday at the American Astronomical Society
> i
> n Washington, D.C.
> What they found was a "significant concentration of galaxies" pulling the
> Milky Way, 500 million light-years from Earth, four times the distance of
> the Great Attractor.
> The discovery of two attractors instead of one was good news for
> understanding
> the density of the universe. One attractor would have implied too much
> matter in
> the universe, the UH Institute for Astronomy said. Two widely spaced
> attractors
> imply a better distribution of matter, they said.
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