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The 1st Generation of Stars
Andy_Howell writes "Astronomers may have found members of the first generation of stars in the universe. Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck I telescope, they observed a faint red blob that had been magnified into a double image by a gravitational lens. The blob was found to be a cluster of stars 13.6 billion light years away, seen when the age of the universe was less than a billion years old. The clump appears to contain only about a million stars, and is less than a few million years old. It is thought that swarms of these clumps came together over the age of the universe to create the galaxies we see today."
...that this article did not mention the Big Bang.
If you are interested there is a spectacular book entitled _The_Big_Bang_Never_Happened_ that describes an alternate (and far more rational) cosmology...it posits that the universe is ruled by elecromagnetically active plasmas, and that the behaviors of our universe need not be explained by increasingly unlikely constructions.
Writers imply. Readers infer.
I'm the decoy - Also known as a negative-mod-sponge.
- Blob
- Cluster
- Clump
- Hemos
- Swarm
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
I assumed it was a convention, not automatically added. I gave too much credit to the posters I guess.
-Berj
I have no idea why you keep posting this (is it supposed to me ASCII art?) but it's definitely amusing.
The scienctific community constanty evangelizes science, studies, theories etc that can be backed up. As someone in the medical community, studies related to those strike home with me so I'll use those as a stepping stone here. We have COUNTLESS and i repeat COUNTLESS studies demonstrating that prayer to God in a DOUBLE BLIND, RANDOMIZED, and CONTROLLED experiments has a large (not 1 percent but on the orders of 25-50%) impact in a study (sure some studies didn't demonstrate it just like some studies have demonstrated that DiHydrogen Monoxide is dangerous). Simply doing a search in pubmed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi
With this body of evidence demonstrate that prayer works EVEN FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT NOW THEY ARE BEING PRAYED FOR, is it too much to inject into the creation of the universe debate the thought that PERHAPS God did create the universe like he claims to have done.
That is all.
"You can choose to follow God, or you can choose to not follow him--but to say he does not exist is to ignore the evidence"