Wednesday, February 25, 2015

A more accurate vacuum somewhere out there

Biggest Thing in Universe Found—Defies Scientific Theory

National Geographic: Talk about a whopper—astronomers have discovered a structure in the universe so large that modern cosmological theory says it should not exist, a new study says. (Also see "Giant 'Blob' Is Largest Thing in Universe [2006].")


Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an international team of researchers has discovered a record-breaking cluster of quasars—young active galaxies—stretching four billion light-years across.
"This discovery was very much a surprise, since it does break the cosmological record as the largest structure in the known universe," said study leader Roger Clowes, an astronomer at University of Central Lancashire in England.

The fine structure must be much smaller in that part of the universe. As the light entered our space, with less dimensionality, it would look like red shifted hydrogen. But we could just assume it came from a region with a smaller fine structure and reconstruct a complex hydrogen' and develop a theory that goes beyond the mere baryon, a theory of the more efficient sphere packing.  But how would such a region of the universe have happened?  Isn't the totality of the vacuum conserved? Do we have to invent reverse causality? ? Something fishy in the neighborhood, who you gonna call?

 

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