New discoveries in the universe of universes. This is Mind Blowing.
Remember me suggesting that in Laniakea, that the universes moving apart from each other would meet at the Great Attractor...Well it seems I was on to something. Here is the link to this morns report in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucB2... after today look for the report for Jan 31. Here is the original laniakea video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENyy...
SOURCE URL: http://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-016-0036
Additionally, it appears that there is a typo in the caption for Figure 1, where the term "pointing vector" almost certainly should be "Poynting vector." It's named after John Henry Poynting who derived it in 1884.
I don't know for sure so please don't throw rocks!
Joke...laughing
I stated prior and so does Ben from SO, think of it as a bar magnet.
This is new mind blowing stuff to see all this put together...so we'll have to see how it evolves...many things will change and evolve over time if science is honest and open minded.
But not so open that their brains leak out, (Like some in congress today)...laughing
Just my take on a field of interest I'm still learning about.
Thanks for your input...I knew I might learn more by posting this article here on the Gulch. The inter-lectual diversity is amazing.
http://sciencepark.etacude.com/partic...
If your talking about the original Laniakea...I did post in the intro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENyy...
It's almost like this page forgets the full link after it abbreviated it. I refreshed the suspicious youtube one also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucB2...
The first expression is correct: our net velocity is expressed in km/sec. But throughout the article km s^-1 appears as an expression of distance.
Moreover, I question the basic arithmetic. If our local group is traveling at a mere 631 km/sec, in the 13.5 billion years of the Universe, we should have gone 268,332.75 trillion km, which is only 29,814 light years. But Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away. So, for all of this dipole stuff, we have hardly budged but 1.5% of the distance to our nearest neighbor. (I realize that the whole group is moving, not just the Milky Way.)
Also, the article assumes that this cosmic background radiation is an absolute frame of reference. That violates a basic assumption, the basic assumption of the student on the train who saw Prof. Einstein and asked him, "What time does Boston arrive at this train?"
Finally, for all the "universes" you can imagine, ultimately, there is only one universe, one reality. I understand the vernacular, but in a technical article, the technical fact is that they are ignorant of technical philosophy. The ad hominem that I have to toss out is: Isn't this stuff all government funded?
http://www.universetoday.com/30305/ho...
I would think that the speed of these systems would depend on proximity to the "great Attractor" or the "Great Repeller"?
Of all the groups that have contributed to this work, I would imagine that some were government funded, I also would imagine that even of these groups, it had nothing to do with their funded purpose. Seems to me to be a special effort aside from their normal responsibilities.
Regardless of maybe a few errors in it's articulation...it is a tremendous achievement. It's a work in progress.
Presumably, if this Attractor or Repeller acts like other forces, then it is an accelerator. In every second, our local galaxy group travels 630 km/sec faster.
For everyday on Earth, the acceleration from gravity is 32.2 feet/sec/sec -- every second you fall, you fall 32 feet/sec faster. (Air resistance slows you down. In a vacuum, you would hit the ground like a meteor: 60 mph is 88 feet/sec; so to fall for 5 seconds is like hitting at 150 mph... ouch...)
But then ... for the local galaxy group, after a short million years, we'd be going like 20,000 trillion km/sec. ... sort of hard to do...
Makes me prefer a Universe designed by a Rational Deity:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Seems to be really complex.
Laughing...By all accounts, these supposed deities were not necessarily rational at all.
I guess that's why Jaynes called these voices of the Gods delusional.
Perhaps now I understand the original article better.
The "expansion of space itself" seems like a floating abstraction. "Space" is the distance between objects. We can abstract that (objectively) to the space between events: the building of the Parthenon and the invention of the microscope, just arbitrarily, are distant from each other in time and space. But neither time nor space would exist but for the prior existence of objects that act.
It's like we are living in a Giant Generator...everything is electric, positive/negative charges and magnetism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucB2...
You should also view the original video on Laniakea...above in the post.