I was reading a news article about impending collision of Galaxies – “Milky Way and Andromeda leading to the formation of a bigger Galaxy.” The article states that the earlier studies were inaccurate due to measurement errors. The latest study shows that the collision may occur within next 4 Billion years… By that time our Sun would run out of fuel and would be a dead Star…
The astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics say… “Our Galaxy is rotating at the rate of 100,000 miles per hour, faster than earlier thought” this translates to a significant increase in mass (How???) but also a greater gravitational pull that increases the likelihood of a collision with the Andromeda Galaxy. The article further writes about how nearly 200 Billion Sun equivalent mass lay between the two Galaxies and it would take nearly 1 Billion years to form the new bigger Galaxy.
Our solar system being part of the Milky Way Galaxy is nearly 28,000 light years away from the centre of the Milky Way and Milky Way is nearly 2 million light years away from the Andromeda Galaxy (One light year is equivalent of 10 billion kilometers… ooofff!!!) The article goes on and on indicating the expansion of Universe as 93 Billion light years… with 470 Billion equivalent sun’s mass and the last big bang occurred about 13.74 Billion years ago; I don’t even know how many zeros are needed to make 470 billion. But I understand that we are nearing the next big bang. One of the article says, there could be Multi Universes in cosmos… blah blah blah… but one the thing that caught my attention was the worry the astronomers had about the impending danger from the collision (accelerated) in near future (3 or 4 Billion years away)… and for some astronomers their next big challenge was to avoid the imaginary collision and to name the new bigger Galaxy (after collision) HUSH!!!
My interest grew remembering the fact that a big bang experiment was conducted in a 17 mile circumference underground tunnel, straddling the French-Swiss border at the European Organization for Nuclear Research; near Geneva; Switzerland. I do remember that just 4 months back; scientific institutions all across the Globe claimed how important their role in the success of the particle collider project was!!! During that time, the pessimists saw eminent end of the world, as black holes generated from the experiment would suck up the entire mass of this planet. Few articles did appear on Nostradamus prediction about the end of the world in year 2012. The entire experiment seems to have fizzled out like a shapeless balloon void of air; those suffering from anxiety neurosis were left with no choice but to search for another issue to worry!!! No one knows if the experiment was conclusive enough to understand the big bang Theory!!!
To top it all, now new evidence is available from the probe on Mars surface, which suggested traces of Carbide, confirming the presence of water on the planet. The last week’s news was about availability of Methane gas on Mars’ atmosphere… I am sure there would be scholarly articles about life on Mars. Deep down in the burrows… we would be made to imagine about a living civilization in the next few weeks or months… The ancestry of sub Sahara tribe who live deep down in burrows (to protect themselves against extreme climate) would be traced to Mars… who knows? They may be subjected to inquisition to find out who stole the earth’s atmosphere… Ha Ha Ha…
Yes… there are articles and stories on how some aliens are stealing our atmosphere… Oh God!!! There is a limit to scientific ecstasy… Give us a break!!! We have our own Economic Recession to tackle…
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