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Post by Sowelu on Aug 23, 2007 20:05:41 GMT -5
Huge Hole Found in the Universe
By Robert Roy Britt, Senior Science Writer
LIVE SCIENCE
posted: 23 August 2007 05:21 pm ET
The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.
The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it's also strangely empty of the mysterious "dark matter" that permeates the cosmos. Other space voids have been found before, but nothing on this scale.
Astronomers don't know why the hole is there.
"Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size," said researcher Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota.
Rudnick's colleague Liliya R. Williams also had not anticipated this finding.
"What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the universe," said Williams, also of the University of Minnesota.
The finding will be detailed in the Astrophysical Journal.
The universe is populated with visible stars, gas and dust, but most of the matter in the universe is invisible. Scientists know something is there, because they can measure the gravitational effects of the so-called dark matter. Voids exist, but they are typically relatively small.
The gargantuan hole was found by examining observations made using the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, funded by the National Science Foundation.
There is a "remarkable drop in the number of galaxies" in a region of sky in the constellation Eridanus, Rudnick said.
The region had been previously been dubbed the "WMAP Cold Spot," because it stood out in a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation made by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotopy Probe (WMAP) satellite. The CMB is an imprint of radiation left from the Big Bang, the theoretical beginning of the universe.
"Although our surprising results need independent confirmation, the slightly colder temperature of the CMB in this region appears to be caused by a huge hole devoid of nearly all matter roughly 6 to 10 billion light-years from Earth," Rudnick said.
Photons of the CMB gain a small amount of energy when they pass through normal regions of space with matter, the researchers explained. But when the CMB passes through a void, the photons lose energy, making the CMB from that part of the sky appear cooler.
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Post by Sowelu on Aug 24, 2007 7:30:16 GMT -5
I was reading excerpts from Elia Wise's site this morning and, while reading the one that follows, I remembered this post (above) from Live Science. I seem to feel a connection between the outer phenomenon mentioned in the News article, and the inner perceptual reality concept of our consciousness, mentioned in this brief excerpt by Elia. Discern for yourselves, of course  ~Sowelu__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Excerpts from the book
Letter to Earth
by Elia Wise
This excerpt about:
MANIFEST CONSCIOUSNESS [/b][/size][/color][/center]
LETTER 4
Do we who come from beyond the Earth actually live somewhere?
Everything in the Universe has form in some dimension, although it may not resemble form as you know it. Form is defined by the system of reality in which a Being chooses to express itself.
To manifest in any system of reality a Being must conform to that system’s dimensional coordinates. When you are sailing in open waters with no land in sight, identifying coordinates of latitude and longitude locates you in relation to the invisible land and the seemingly boundless sea. The same is true when you are navigating the multidimensional Universe. Dimensional coordinates, as well as coordinates of magnetism and frequency, locate you in relation to invisible systems of reality and seemingly boundless consciousness. Without these coordinates we would bump into ourselves, each other, and other reality systems more often than we do.
…A black hole in your dimensional space is another reality system whose coordinates interface with those of Earth. It is a locus of being for a collective identity, just as Earth is a locus of being for the collective Human identity. The collective or star referred to as a black hole is neither dead nor gone. Its focus of consciousness is temporarily redirected into other dimensional coordinates that preclude its appearance in your space/time continuum. The field your scientists interpret to be unoccupiable and inescapable is actually holding the star's place in space, the way you might put a reserved sign on your airplane seat if you wanted to get off for a walk between legs of a flight. Because the collective identity of the star has taken a walk somewhere your consciousness cannot currently reach, instead of perceiving its manifestation, you perceive it as being sealed off behind its own event horizon, a gap in your space/time continuum. Actually, it is sealed off from your perception by Humanity’s current consciousness horizon.
The relationship of another reality system to that of the Earth, the nature of black and white holes, and insight into the near future of Humanity’s transformational process are presented in Letter 4 of "LETTER TO EARTH".
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Copyright Inspired Company, 2007 - Elia Wise
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Post by Nicole on Aug 24, 2007 14:19:22 GMT -5
I was going to say something like that, that the void was just something they didn't know how to interpret. Perhaps something even coming into our field of "vision" via our own dimensional shift.
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~Sowelu