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For the first time, a new survey has detected the telltale structures of spiral galaxies swallowing smaller dwarf companions in star cities more distant than our immediate galactic neighborhood, opening up the possibility of testing our current views of galaxy evolution in a new way. View full post on Astronomy.com – News

New research pins down the epoch when galaxy clusters make the last of their stars, helping astronomers understand more about how galaxies form. View full post on SPACE.com

The biggest things in space through the eyes of a kindergartener.

Once you begin SWG (assuming you’ve completed the character creation) you will start in a city known as Mos Eisley. You should explore and familiarize yourself because you will be spending the next few hours or days there. If you should decide to just run out and start killing here’s a small note to memorize. Grey mobs are not worth killing, green is easy, blue is decent, yellow is ideal, red is hard, purple is almost impossible to kill alone.

Ideally you should pick up some missions. There are small terminals in which you can get the missions. You can choose between destroy or delivery missions. Characters with good combat skills should choose destroy missions while those not focused in combat should choose delivery. Keep in mind, the larget the reward of the mission the more difficult it may be. Once you’ve accepted a mission a waypoint will guide you on where to go.

There are also imperial missiona and rebel alliance missions. They are shaped a bit differently and have blue screens instead of orange like the standard missions. If you decide to complete missions for imperial you will gain faction with them but lose faction with the rebel alliance. Keep note of which side you plan on joining later. Along with the 2 factioning sides, tehre are also bounty hunter missions, entertainer missions and artisan missions as well.

There are also tasks which you can take upon that will help you gain credits, items or experience. You can get the tasks from special designated NPCs within each city. There are many places that you may enter in Star Wars Galaxies with out doing the task. Missions and tasks are great ways to get you started in the game if you prefer not to just run out and start killing random mobs.

Once you have earned enough credits and experience you may choose to travel the galaxy. You do so by heading to the space transport and buying a ticket at the terminal. If you do not see the city that you wish to travel to then you will need to travel to another planet and go from there. It can take up to 10 minutes before the shuttle lands to pick you up. Keep note that if you are special forces in your faction other players would take advantage of new arrivals in cities. Keep your credits safe in a bank. Enjoy your trip and have a safe flight.

A spectacular new image of two colliding galaxies shows a cosmic region teeming with stellar activity. View full post on SPACE.com

Read more: space.newscientist.com Hubble images of colliding galaxies illustrate different stages of the violent events; these are compared with a computer simulation (Courtesy of NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team/STScI/AURA/A Evans/U of Virginia/NRAO/Stony Brook U/K Noll/J Westphal)

We are going to hop our way through one of the galaxy
richest parts of the night time sky; Markarian’s Chain in the Virgo Cluster!

View full post on Astronomy a Go Go!

On Energy, Mass, Gravity, Galaxies Clusters, AND Life

A Commonsensible Recapitulation

A. “Heavyweight galaxies in the young universe”, at

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/42419/title/Heavyweight_galaxies_in_the_young_universe

New observations of full-grown galaxies in the young universe may force astrophysicists to revise their leading theory of galaxy formation, at least as it applies to regions where galaxies congregate into clusters.

B. Some brief notes in “Light On Dark Matter?”, at

http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=22994&st=0&#entry373127

- “Galaxy Clusters Evolved By Dispersion, Not By Conglomeration”

- Introduction of E=Total[m(1 + D)]

- “Dark Energy And Matter And The Emperor’s New Clothes”

- “Evolutionary Cosmology: Ordained Or Random”

- ““Movie” Of Microwave Pulse Transitioning From Quantum To Classical Physics”

- “Broken Symmetry” Is Physics’ Term Of Biology’s “Evolution”

- “A Glimpse Of Forces-Matter-Life Unified Theory”

C. Commonsensible conception of gravity

1. According to the standard model, which describes all the forces in nature except gravity, all elementary particles were born massless. Interactions with the proposed Higgs field would slow down some of the particles and endow them with mass. Finding the Higgs — or proving it does not exist — has therefore become one of the most important quests in particle physics.

However, for a commonsensible primitive mind with a commonsensible universe represented by

E=Total[m(1 + D)],

this conceptual equation describes gravity. It does not explain gravity. It describes it. It applies to the whole universe and to every and all specific cases, regardless of size.

2. Thus gravity is simply another face of the total cosmic energy. Thus gravity is THE cosmic parent of phenomena such as black holes and life. It is the display of THE all-pervasive-embracive strained space texture, laid down by the expanding galactic clusters, also noticed within the galactic clusters in the energy backlashes into various constructs of temporary constrained energy packages.

3. “Extrapolation of the expansion of the universe backwards in time to the early hot dense “Big Bang” phase, using general relativity, yields an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past. At age 10^-35 seconds the Universe begins with a cataclysm that generates space and time, as well as all the matter and energy the Universe will ever hold.”

At D=0, E was = m and both E and m were, together, all the energy and matter the Universe will ever hold. Since the onset of the cataclysm, E remains constant and m diminishes as D increases.

The increase of D is the inflation, followed by expansion, of what became the galactic clusters.

At 10^-35 seconds, D in E=Total[m(1 + D)] was already a fraction of a second above zero. This is when gravity started. This is what started gravity. At this instance starts the space texture, starts the straining of the space texture, and starts the “space texture memory”, gravity, that may eventually overcome expansion and initiate re-impansion back to singularity.

D. Commonsensible conception of the forces other than gravity

The forces other than gravity are, commonsensibly, forces involved in conjunction with evolution within the galactic clusters:

http://royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?id=4770

The farthest we go in reductionism in Everything, including in Life, we shall still end up with wholism, until we arrive at energy. Energy is the base element of everything and of all in the universe. At the beginning was the energy singularity, at the end will be near zero mass and an infinite dispersion of the beginning energy, and in-between, the universe undergoes continuous evolution consisting of myriad energy-to-energy and energy-to-mass-to-energy transformations.

The universe, and everything in it, are continuously evolving, and all the evolutions are intertwined.

E. PS to “On Cosmic Energy And Mass Evolutions”

As mass is just another face of energy it is commonsensible to regard not only life, but mass in general, as a format of temporarily constrained energy.

It therefore ensues that whereas the expanding cosmic constructs, the galaxies clusters, are – overall – continuously converting “their” original pre-inflation mass back to energy, the overall evolution WITHIN them, within the clusters, is in the opposite direction, temporarily constrained energy packages such as black holes and biospheres and other energy-storing mass-formats are precariuosly forming and “doing best” to survive as long as “possible”…

F. From “Strings Link the Ultracold with the Superhot”

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/42632/title/Strings_Link_the_Ultracold_with_the_Superhot

“Perfect liquids suggest theory’s math mirrors something real.

When the universe was very young, and still superhot from the aftermath of the Big Bang, plasma should have been the only state of matter around. And that’s what scientists at Brookhaven expected to see when they smashed gold ions together at 99.99 percent of the speed of light using a machine called RHIC (for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider). RHIC physicists thought the ion collisions would melt the gold’s protons and neutrons into a hot plasma of quarks and gluons at a temperature of a trillion kelvins, replicating conditions similar to those a microsecond after the birth of the universe. But instead of a gaslike plasma, the physicists reported in 2005, RHIC served up a hot quark soup, behaving more like a liquid than a plasma or gas.”

G. The expectation of Brookhaven scientists was a bit unrealistic

The “aftermath of the Big Bang” lasted much less than 10^-35 seconds. This is evidenced by the fact that “Gravity Is THE Manifestation Of The Onset Of Cosmic Inflation Cataclysm”:

http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/184.page#1950

and

http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/184.page#1982

With all respect due to the scientists at Brookhaven it is unrealistic to expect that they can recreate the state of pre big-bang energy-mass singularity. Commonsense is still the best scientific approach.

H. PS To “Gravity Limits Link Ultracold And Superhot”: Our Inability To Create Singularity

a. From “Strings Link the Ultracold with the Superhot”

A new truth always has to contend with many difficulties,” the German physicist Max Planck said decades ago. “If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.”

b. IMO gravity is attempted reversal of inflation

To me, a simple uninformed one, E=mc^2 is a derived formula, whereas

 E=Total[m(1 + D)] is a commonsensical descriptive concept.

I intuitively regard both the ultracold and superhot liquids as being in a confined space and “striving but unable” to overcome D, to render D=0.

I also intuitively regard our accelerated collisions smashups as attempted “reverse inflations” in the sense that Newton’s law of universal gravitation seems to me as “reverse inflation”.

Dov Henis

(Comments From The 22nd Century)

Life’s Manifest

http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/112.page#578

EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200

http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/100/122.page#1407

When you receive the Seal you are not yet perfected. You are “young” compared to the maturity that will perfect you as years pass. Just like your own youth is the youth of galaxies astronomers have found recently.

When you are sealed God writes His Name upon you. When you bear God’s Name you anticipate years of growth to become worthy of God and show His glory to the world.

Some of the glory of God is being shown to the world right now–glory that is from “out of this world.” And yet the glory of the observable Heavens can tell us much about the grandeur of God and His creation.

An international bunch of astronomers finished a project they planned for years. They had the difficult task of securing the world’s largest telescopes all night every night for almost 2 weeks.

And that is how long they looked at one small little section of night sky–92 hours in that one place. This had the effect of letting a photograph expose for quite a long time. They could see very faint objects from very far away.

These objects are thought to be “teenager” galaxies or “baby” galaxies. They are considered proto-galaxies, the beginning of galaxies which will mature into the adult galaxies we know of today.

Light seems to us to travel quickly. But it takes a long time to travel the vast distances of the known universe. The light caught in the eye of this study is reputedly 11 billion years old or more.

That is a long time. Longer than man can easily comprehend. But it is an indication of the promise of eternity. Forever is much longer than 11 billion years. Forever is infinite.

This light 11 billion years old is light from only 2 billion years after the supposed Big Bang, the theoretical even when the universe exploded into being. Light this old is from when galaxies were still forming.

This study is going to tell scientists a lot about how the universe formed. This is good knowledge to have since it will help us understand God’s creation of the universe, and knowledge of God’s creation can only help people.

And scientists consider this finding to be “unprecedented” in magnitude. Never before have astronomers been able to look back at the building blocks of galaxies, which requires considerable depth of observation.

The research is planned for publication in the March 2008 issue of the Astrophysical Journal, and will resolve some heated arguments scientists have had for 30 years about the origins of the universe.

But you know that the ultimate origin of everything is God. He created the universe and the little world we now call home. Looking far back in time is an awesome experience giving a sense of the scope of God’s infinite nature.

And it is more than just an experience. The more we understand about how God created the universe, the more we can use that knowledge to benefit us in the present day. Science will solve a lot of problems.

Speaking of solutions, God wants you to solve a problem right now. The problem is that you have not always been close to Him, and this is the generation of the devil. But you can change all that today.

You can get closer to God today and experience some of the awe of His creation and His everlasting Presence. You can win the victory over the devil and get closer to God by receiving the Seal.

The Best Collection of Nebulae and Galaxies around. These are my favorite images of celestial objects.