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Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 2082
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 4:24 am: |     |
Err, it looks like the universe has a hole!
quote:Astronomers have found a disturbing gap in the sky. Well, not disturbing perhaps, just mysterious. Nearly a billion light years across and around 6-10bn light years from Earth, it seems devoid of not only the normal matter that makes up stars and planets, it lacks the unseen "dark matter" too.
Hole in Universe
Ok, I don't understand how nothing can be there, not even dark matter. Does that mean space-time is non-existent there?
Scott
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Angakuk
flint knapper
Username: Angakuk
Post Number: 714
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 4:57 am: | |
Clearly that must a leftover bit of the nothing out of which God created the universe. Of course we don't really know what it is because we don't know what nothing is.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily; not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 2087
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 5:06 am: | |
Ok where is the salt shaker, I need a grain! 
But, you are correct we don't know what nothing is - and that is where my question about space-time comes from - is it missing too? If so, then "hole" is an apt appellation but if not, then it is over-stated.
Scott
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Rhi
hunter
Username: Rhi
Post Number: 529
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 - 4:28 am: | |
Isn't a hole, by definition, something? There can't be nothing there, or we go POOF!
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