StillLooking Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/01/dark-noodles-may-lurk-in-the-milky-way Dark 'noodles' may lurk in the Milky Way Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagna sheets, or hazelnuts could be floating around in our galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
☆ pantheory ☆ Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/01/dark-noodles-may-lurk-in-the-milky-way Dark 'noodles' may lurk in the Milky Way Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagna sheets, or hazelnuts could be floating around in our galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way. Of course these are just patchworks of intergalactic "clouds" / gas. The strangeness seems to be in the shapes that some of this galactic matter takes: like "noodle-like forms, lasagna sheets, hazelnut forms," etc. The question seems to be: why do these clumps of matter take on such strange shapes instead of just random clumps and forms like we see concerning the Earth's clouds? There seems to be nothing in mainstream theory as to why these shapes should be a preferred form of nature. Those who might be proposing non-mainstream models concerning these finding may be as equally baffled. This may not seem to be an important discovery, but from peculiar seemingly insignificant observations like these can come important insights that might fill in the blanks of existing theory or show the direction toward new theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thought2Much Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/01/dark-noodles-may-lurk-in-the-milky-way Dark 'noodles' may lurk in the Milky Way Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagna sheets, or hazelnuts could be floating around in our galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way. Of course these are just patches of intergalactic clouds. The strangeness is in the shapes some of them take, like noodle forms, hazelnut form, and others. The question is: why do these clumps of matter take on many similar type forms instead of just random clumps like we see concerning the Earth's clouds? There seems to be nothing in mainstream theory as to why this should be true, and most or all proposing non-mainstream models are probably as equally baffled. Of course this may not seem to be an important finding, but from some peculiar seemingly insignificant observations like these can come major new important insights and changes of theory. But there's nothing here that's going to help confirm your "theory," Forrest. Fuck off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duderonomy Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/01/dark-noodles-may-lurk-in-the-milky-way Dark 'noodles' may lurk in the Milky Way Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagna sheets, or hazelnuts could be floating around in our galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way. Of course these are just patchworks of intergalactic "clouds" / gas. The strangeness seems to be in the shapes that some of this galactic matter takes: like "noodle-like forms, lasagna sheets, hazelnut forms," etc. The question seems to be: why do these clumps of matter take on such strange shapes instead of just random clumps and forms like we see concerning the Earth's clouds? There seems to be nothing in mainstream theory as to why these shapes should be a preferred form of nature. Those who might be proposing non-mainstream models concerning these finding may be as equally baffled. This may not seem to be an important discovery, but from peculiar seemingly insignificant observations like these can come important insights that might fill in the blanks of existing theory or show the direction toward new theory. Pantheory, I don't know much about science. But even I know that the answer to the part I bolded is because what we see in the Milky Way isn't the same as what we see in the Earth's clouds, because it doesn't have the Earth's atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
☆ pantheory ☆ Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Pantheory, I don't know much about science. But even I know that the answer to the part I bolded is because what we see in the Milky Way isn't the same as what we see in the Earth's clouds, because it doesn't have the Earth's atmosphere. .........structures appear to be ‘lumps’ in the thin gas that lies between the stars in our galaxy. “They could radically change ideas about this interstellar gas, which is the galaxy’s star recycling depot, housing material from old stars that will be refashioned into new ones,” Bannister said. Bannister and his colleagues described breakthrough observations of one of these ‘lumps’ that have allowed them to make the first estimate of its shape. (quote from link below) http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/01/dark-noodles-may-lurk-in-the-milky-way Maybe not the best analogy where intergalactic clouds are primarily hydrogen, but the point of the article is: why should such clouds of gas have such "goofy" looking shapes to them? -- whereby there seems to be no known reason why such peculiar shapes of gas clouds should exist at all, let alone to the extent observed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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