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We are in uncharted Waters by Eric Norland
We are in uncharted waters. Have you heard this lately? I heard it today regarding the state of our nations economy. Then I heard it again regarding the budget deficit in our city. Now I’m hearing it everyday regarding job losses, mortgage foreclosures and GM going bankrupt.
This term can be used in our discussions of the universe. There are many uncharted waters out there. There are many reefs to run aground, storms to ride out, and unknowns around the next cove or around the next river bend.
Take for instance the unknown about what came before the Big Bang. That is one of the most puzzling questions asked of me, while we are out sidewalk stargazing. It is difficult to answer this one. I like to say, “That is like asking, so who invented God?” We run into a brick wall. It just does not make sense.
Yet another thought comes to mind, who was invented first, a man or a woman? Neither can exist without the other. It can drive you mad trying to figure out the order to this.
We can theoretically say that there was nothing before the Big Bang. We can come up with the reciprocating universe theory, or the cyclic universe, or the steady state universe. I thought of one years ago called The Big Sink. It was based on the universal shape of the vortex in nature. Hurricanes, cyclones, galaxies, black holes, are all vortexes. Perhaps we are going down into a vortex, not out into the big bang unknown. These are creation theories, they give us pause to think and they are hard to fathom.
But there is order to nature. All we have to do is learn a bit more information and our ideas will all change.
One of the latest explanations I heard was that there was another universe nearby which coincidentally created our own. A huge star in that other universe went supernova and it sunk into a black hole so deep that it went into an anti universe and came out into our universe as the Big Bang. That may not be so farfetched considering that multiple universes seem to be a part of quantum physics.
The other uncharted waters are what lies on the other side of our Milky Way. We have no idea what is over there. Some say that infrared detectors can see through the core and detect nothing over there. How can it see through that densely packed star region accurately? Who knows, another galaxy might be out there, beyond the galactic center or there may be several of them. There might be a curious tail to our own galaxy or a bizarre quasar.
I have always thought of the globular clusters as uncharted waters. They did not make sense, how they can move in elliptical orbits contrary to the rotation of our Milky Way. How did they get there? Why are they such old stars? I’ve pondered on these aspects for a long time. I think I figured it out.
In the early formation of our galaxy, there were many giant black holes, left over from the first generation giant stars after the Big Bang. These black holes rotated rapidly. They collected gases around them. They sagged space. The gases collected into a galaxy of stars, full of angular momentum and they orbited the black hole. Occasionally the black hole gobbled up those stars. Then once in awhile a young star cluster came to close and it was ricocheted off of the black hole into deep space. It shot those star clusters off at an angle, away from the rotational spin of our galaxy and into the diverse orbit that today’s globulars follow. They have been there ever since.
Now I did not come up with this hypothesis until I read about Ejecta stars in Astronomy magazine. So one moves on into uncharted waters. It takes a little bit of information to help us understand the universe. In the coming years, that will happen even more. Bigger telescopes, supercomputers and perhaps a semicollider will peel open the onion and all of our eyes will start to weep. |
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