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The Shape of the Milky Way Is Warped and Twisted (abc.net.au)
Necroloth writes: You probably thought that if you were looking at our galaxy from the outside and at a distance, you would see a thin disc of stars that orbit around a central region, but the further away from the inner regions of the Milky Way you are, the less the pull of gravity. At the outer disc, the hydrogen atoms that make up the Milky Way's gas disc are, as a consequence, warped into an S-like shape, no longer pulled together in a thin plane. A group of astronomers from Australia and China have built their "intuitive and accurate three-dimensional picture" by mapping 1339 classical Cepheids. There's a quick animation of the galaxy on the @NatureAstronomy twitter here. The study has been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
An interesting aspect of this is that our solar system I think is in the part where the disc starts to bend, according to this diagram of where our solar system is in the galaxy...
It seems like it would be kind of irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but maybe for some reason in the places where the gas discs of a universe start to bend, life it more likely for some reason. Or course, with a sample size of one you can't really extrapolate much - just seems like an interesting coincidence.
If I'm wrong about the location I would love to know more exactly where we are.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Just like my soul.
Or at least personality -- instead of the SuperBowl I watched this instead. Much funner.
I *DID* miss the Puppy Bowl though; I'm ashamed of that.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Perhaps this is why humans are so twisted and broken.
"Our Galaxy thus follows Briggs’ rule for spiral galaxies4, which suggests that the origin of the warp is associated with torques forced by the massive inner disk5. "
I assume the force in question being referred to is gravity? Gravity induced torque?
What's the explanation for torque here? The force along the axle where all the spins and forces are in a plane... it's observed sure, its defined in equation form, agreed, but how exactly does the accelerating spin *around* the disc cause torque *along* the axle? When the axle is at 90 degrees to the disc? All the forces and velocities are in the plane of the disc, and yet torque is along the axle?!
Suppose the underlying mechanism is a component of spin across the thickness of the disc, and then rotation would push that component around the circumference of the disc spin, reducing the component in the direction of the axle, i.e. a force across the axle. Slowing it down would push it back into the axis across the disc, a force in the other way also along the axel.
Suddenly torque is simple to understand, as a fairly simple mechanism, but.... not in this context.
Gravity is an attraction only force... so that model of torque wouldn't work if gravity is a simple attraction only force.... how would it also push along the axel?
And then there's the orientation problem again, I said it would push the spin component around the disc, and reduce the component along the axle, and that's true.... but... the two always work in a specific way, acceleration in one direction results in a force in a related direction, a specific orientation rule connects them, and so it must connect the spin. They must be spinning in a particular way, coordinated.
It would be nice if people thought about the magic in Fleming left hand rule too... it's related
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As someone, who personally has no particular political stance....
You suck.....
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They melt really easily. No substance to them really.
I studied undergrad physics with one of the astronomers cited in the article. Really weird reading along and then going, "Oh, I know them!"
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"You're Warped and Twisted!" -- Milky Way Galaxy
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
It has blood on it!
ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
As a son of Adam & Eve, you demand Knowledge before God. You worship the creature, and not the Creator. For this reason, God sends Energeian Planes so that they will believe the lie, in order that judgment will come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.
But as a powerful delusion, there is a loose thread or two.
I didn't post what you replied to (you probably did) so TAKE YOUR OWN POOR ADVICE & F off.
APK
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A lot less cheating, corruption, corporate interference, crying, etc in Jelle's games. The suspense is just as good IMO, if not better.
You dumb, redneck bastard! You can't even racist right. That was a reference to a gospel slave hymn sung in the fields. And the coal mine was in reference to you MAGA shits who want blacks back in the fields. Something as juvenile as "I'll go tell it to yo momma tonight" would have been a better retort.
For me, the use of language such as "warped" and "twisted" suggests we know exactly what the milky way should look like, but doesn't.
Yet the truth be known, we don't know, and all we have is theory, and computer simulations based on models based on theory. Yet observations contradict our models. So who's wrong here? Damn nature! It should be fined for defying our laws of physics!