"Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe

DynaSoar writes "NASA astrophysicists have discovered what they claim is something outside the observable universe exerting an effect on the observable. The material is pulling clusters of galaxies towards a region of space known not to contain sufficient matter to create the effect. They can only speculate on what the material is and how space might differ there: 'In these regions, space-time might be very different, and likely doesn't contain stars and galaxies (which only formed because of the particular density pattern of mass in our bubble). It could include giant, massive structures much larger than anything in our own observable universe. These structures are what researchers suspect are tugging on the galaxy clusters, causing the dark flow.'"

Comments

Re:Smelloscope

[Greyfox]

Was it a dark flow in the vicinity of Uranus? That is definitely not a good dark flow to point the Smelloscope at.

Re:Since looking farther = further in time

[claygate]

Do posts on sigs count as "on topic"?

That's interesting. I'm going to see if I can mod this post.

Re:bah

[earlymon]

Absolutely wrong. My wife has friends that are mind-numbingly clueless, right down to Nevada being part of California.

While the jury is out on M theory, et al, and now dark flow - and while your point may have been that the unknown is so disproportionately large to that already known as to not essentially matter - you're wrong. A in philosophy, F in science.

I sentence you to a night with my wife's friends while I escape to the local pub. I predict that upon joining me at said pub later, should you in fact retain the mental skills necessary for perambulation to thus make it as far as the pub, you will never again allow your brane to stray in such a fashion.

(Brane isn't misspelled - it's what'll be left of your once-brain.)