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Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:55 PM

The Blob That Didn't Eat the Universe

By Sharon Begley
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Posted By: Observerguy (April 23, 2009 at 3:21 PM)

Re:  Dredd (4/23, 10:37 AM) -- watch it.  You'll expose the consensual "no clothes."  Guys have dutiful careers on the line here.  If everyone who's anyone says the sun circumnavigates the earth, it's obvious that it is so.

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Posted By: Dredd (April 23, 2009 at 10:37 AM)

Some theorists hypothesize that light looses wavelength energy as it travels. Light is the oldest thing we can examine so the oldest, which this light is, would be something to use the hypothesis on.

Light emitted from a galaxy 12.9 billion years ago would be 12.9 billion years old. Real old.

If the light does "age" (e.g. laws of thermodynamics) and "become fuzzy", then the galaxy would look fuzzy or blobby to someone who observed it via light 12.9 billion years old.

verrrrrryyyyy interrrrresting ...

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