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- eyepatch100, on 07/11/2008, -3/+26"You're looking rather attractive today."
"Oh please, Milky Way, you flatter me."
"But it's true-none of the the galaxies around here can resist you!" - rpebble, on 07/12/2008, -0/+21Same reason you don't feel like you're moving in a car or a plane. You don't feel movement, you feel acceleration (or rather the force that causes the acceleration, as I'm sure someone will point out).
- Premier, on 07/11/2008, -1/+22So where exactly is the new theory?
- SillyRabbits, on 07/11/2008, -1/+15Not to be a grammar Nazi, but it looks like there's an open editor / proof reading position at the Daily Galaxy.
- thisguy47, on 07/12/2008, -0/+10We don't notice because everything around us is moving at the same speed. We don't feel it because we are securely fastened to the Earth by our friend, gravity.
- dcstriker, on 07/12/2008, -1/+11Man I love space!!!
- boejangles, on 07/11/2008, -0/+6A beast with a million backs maybe ?
- darkphenox, on 07/12/2008, -0/+6maybe one with billions
- Orion1004, on 07/11/2008, -0/+6It seems to me that the new theory is clear: The only thing that could explain the movement of Andromeda is the gravitational pull of a lot of unseen mass--perhaps the equivalent of 10 Milky Way-size galaxies--lying between the two galaxies.
- Wittyfish, on 07/12/2008, -0/+6Blah blah blah we don't know what the hell is going on blah blah blah
- DeskFlyer, on 07/12/2008, -0/+6An interesting and probably unrelated note regarding the rotation of our planet, because it's not something you feel, but rather notice - Airliners on a route to the poles from the equator have to make course corrections to the west due to the having to bleed off the relative lateral velocity they had to the east when they took off, although it does not affect flight time.
An example (taken from here: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/%7Epogge/Ast16 ...
* Fire a cannonball due North from a cannon on the Equator.
* The cannon is moving east with the Earth's rotation at a speed of 1670 km/hr.
* The cannonball retains its initial, faster, eastward speed as it flies north (Newton's First Law).
* The further north it flies, the slower the eastward motion of the Earth's surface beneath its flight.
Result is a slight eastward deflection of the cannonball from its original northward trajectory. You get the same effect if you fire the cannon towards the South. - charmaniac, on 07/12/2008, -1/+6Horribly written article.
- Daxx22, on 07/12/2008, -0/+5Its the site of the original group hug!
http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF115-Hug_Bot.jpg - Mootabolife, on 07/12/2008, -1/+6This gigantic unseen mass named mass astronomers have dubbed "The Great Editor."
- TobiasParker, on 07/12/2008, -0/+4Actually it will expand infinitely until even subatomic particles are too distant to generate heat or affect each other.
- skinturtle, on 07/12/2008, -1/+4so if the galaxy is moving that fast...and we are moving at the same speed with it...what would happen if somehow we could come to a complete stop apart from the galaxy? Would everything zoom past us?
- snupples, on 07/12/2008, -1/+4Fail.
- Seafea, on 07/12/2008, -0/+3It's probably a tremendously giant black hole. We're all doomed.
- finn, on 07/12/2008, -1/+4'new theory'? where? this is so old news its not even funny; i don't particularly follow astronomy news closely or anything, but this stuff has been known of for quite some time. Digg needs a bury option of 'old news'.
- Aurabolt, on 07/12/2008, -2/+5How come we don't feel the 14 million MPH movement..
or the spin of the earth...
I never got that - Jennefah, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Ohh and it being "The Great Attractor"... will there be tentacles? Mass mating?
(or as I call it... "multi-mating") - MattBD, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Ever hear of the Omega point?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point_(Tipler)
Seriously weird. I read a short story once (The Days of Solomon Gursky by Ian McDonald) where this guy survives till the end of time and they actually mould the new universe into a recreation of the old one, but where they can put right things they did wrong. Really entertaining story. - GeekMommy, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2except, that theory was proposed in the 1990's - not exactly new...
- GeekMommy, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Yes, but at increasing speeds - because honestly, you can't come to a 'complete stop' without decelerating. Think about being in a car and putting on your brakes to make a turn - other traffic starts passing you more quickly the more you slow down...
Then again - something that has the gravitational pull to drag in the Milky Way at that speed would require you to continually be producing a counter-thrust to 'slow down' since it wouldn't really be braking. You'd have to have something propelling you in the other direction at an equal level of force to "slow you down."
Physics is fun, eh? - FreeTalkLIve, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2I agree.
Damn the man the diggs you down! - Metasquares, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Ditto. We're effectively saying we have no idea how the universe really works, and because we can't puzzle out any good theories that may account for this, we instead choose to modify the data that we are presented with. You can prove anything that way, and it's entirely useless for prediction.
- strictnein, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Neato duplicate comments digg.
- rentmitchum, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2I think I read about dark matter in A Brief History of Time.. Wasn't that published in like.. the eighties? Several other books as well.. Here I got all excited for some new theory, when this is just a badly written rehash. This is why I got away from cosmology and astrophysics for awhile in favor of reading about evolution and natural selection.. Now when the LHC is up and running, there better be some articles on digg about any discoveries it makes.. I'm not just talking about mini black holes and other sensationalist *****. I'm saying if they find gravitons and it's not up on the front page the day they find them, I will have Stephen Hawking formally revoke all your nerd licenses!
You can't handle the robot voice. - teamedge07, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2My brain hurts!!!
- Darph.Bobo, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2That sucking is Tom (When I drive by a traffic accident, I know I'm the only one that can help..) Cruise's career imploding.
- DeskFlyer, on 07/12/2008, -3/+4That sucks.
- supermanred, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1NEWS BULLETIN: THIS JUST IN:
Scientists have recorded audio coming from the direction of the pull. Clearly heard on the audio is the phrase "You will be exterminated in 500 Reils!!!" - SmidleyDigg, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Zing!
- mecharabbit, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2Fat girls need lovin' too. We're all being inextricably drawn to the far reaches of the universe anyway, so why not bang e'rythang u can?
- jerematic, on 07/12/2008, -2/+3The article doesn't make the "theory" very clear. It seems more like newly discovered observations then a unified theory.
- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -2/+3Newton's theory of gravitation, quantum gravity, string theory, and general relativity...None of these theories can explain what is being observed. String theory when completed might be able to tho.
- TheDreadDiggerD, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Love is the most destructive force in the known universe. It is only fitting that it be the seed of our galactic destruction!
- lifeinsepia, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1I believe Crunch vs. Entropy is still a heated debate. (pun only partially intended)
- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1It's some kind of mass that isn't detectable by our crappy instruments, yet. We will learn in due time, we will learn.
- Rizzob23, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1No new information here. It's the same stuff they have been saying for years.
- thirteenthcor, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1I love how the explanation to the articles title is the very last paragraph.
- Andocromn, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1maybe dark matter is unrealized matter and it is what the protons, neutrons, and electrons that make up matter are made of, and also what makes up photon partials. which would mean that a dark matter partial is too small to reflect light and therefore it appears dark.
- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2A giant CAKE of LIE.
- tooshaggy, on 07/12/2008, -0/+0put your head between your knees and brace for impact
- strictnein, on 07/12/2008, -0/+0Nofollow links give you no love. Moron.
- strictnein, on 07/12/2008, -1/+1Yes, everyone who has taken 7th grade astronomy knows what you're saying. The difference is that we're moving towards them at a much greater rate than is explainable by the masses of the two galaxies.
- julianrod, on 07/12/2008, -2/+2It's God. Or Xenu.
I give up. - inactive, on 07/12/2008, -2/+2This thing caused
the '77 New York blackout.
Practical joke by the Great Attractor.
He thought it was funny as hell.
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