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 Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 5:41 am Post subject: Only Darkness, Forever |
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Dark future for Universe
By Helen Briggs
BBC News Online science reporter
Astronomers have confirmed by a new method one of the saddest stories of the
Universe - one day the stars in the sky will all stop twinkling.
As old stars die, new ones are born, but, for billions of years, the rate of
star formation has been in decline.
According to recent estimates, there are 10 times more stars in the visible
Universe than all the grains of sand on every beach and desert in the world.
The good news is that they should last for a very long time yet. One day,
however, the Universe will fade into darkness.
"It'll be thousands of millions of years before you get big changes in the
night sky," says the appropriately named Alan Heavens of Edinburgh
University, UK.
"The Universe will carry on forever, as far as we know, but eventually all
the stars will go out and it will become a very dark and very cold place."
Fossil record
It has been known for many years that the rate of star formation is slowing.
This has been estimated by observing very distant galaxies. The light from
these galaxies has taken thousands of millions of years to reach Earth,
giving a picture of what they were like when they were very young.
Professor Heavens and colleagues used data from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey, one of the most ambitious astronomical survey projects ever, to get
a more complete picture of the history of star formation.
They looked at what they call the "fossil record" of the Universe - the star
light from 40,000 nearby galaxies.
Galaxies shine with the combined light of all the stars they contain. When
most of the stars are young, blue light from very hot, massive stars
predominates.
These blue stars decay relatively quickly and die out, meaning that the
light from older populations of stars is dominated by reddish light from the
remaining smaller stars.
The astronomers analysed the spectrum of light using a new compression
method to cope with the vast amount of information.
It confirms what we already knew - that star formation peaked around six
billion years ago, when our own Sun came into being.
Nevertheless, it gives a more accurate, if gloomy, prediction of what the
Universe might be like in the distant future. |
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Dave Whittaker
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 7:16 pm Post subject: Re: Only Darkness, Forever |
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The first of one those feelings when you (b)roach the First Zen Laws...
The Feelings of Fedipsque
Fiat L.V.X. For when I-Kalla says the Can of I go back.
IXI
DaemAeon
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| Quote: | Dark future for Universe
By Helen Briggs
BBC News Online science reporter
Astronomers have confirmed by a new method one of the saddest stories of
the
Universe - one day the stars in the sky will all stop twinkling.
As old stars die, new ones are born, but, for billions of years, the rate
of
star formation has been in decline.
According to recent estimates, there are 10 times more stars in the
visible
Universe than all the grains of sand on every beach and desert in the
world.
The good news is that they should last for a very long time yet. One day,
however, the Universe will fade into darkness.
"It'll be thousands of millions of years before you get big changes in the
night sky," says the appropriately named Alan Heavens of Edinburgh
University, UK.
"The Universe will carry on forever, as far as we know, but eventually all
the stars will go out and it will become a very dark and very cold place."
Fossil record
It has been known for many years that the rate of star formation is
slowing.
This has been estimated by observing very distant galaxies. The light from
these galaxies has taken thousands of millions of years to reach Earth,
giving a picture of what they were like when they were very young.
Professor Heavens and colleagues used data from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey, one of the most ambitious astronomical survey projects ever, to
get
a more complete picture of the history of star formation.
They looked at what they call the "fossil record" of the Universe - the
star
light from 40,000 nearby galaxies.
Galaxies shine with the combined light of all the stars they contain. When
most of the stars are young, blue light from very hot, massive stars
predominates.
These blue stars decay relatively quickly and die out, meaning that the
light from older populations of stars is dominated by reddish light from
the
remaining smaller stars.
The astronomers analysed the spectrum of light using a new compression
method to cope with the vast amount of information.
It confirms what we already knew - that star formation peaked around six
billion years ago, when our own Sun came into being.
Nevertheless, it gives a more accurate, if gloomy, prediction of what the
Universe might be like in the distant future.
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People's Commissar
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 4:33 am Post subject: Re: Only Darkness, Forever |
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Yet Still, the Darkness is ONE.  I love it when we are SOoooo right.
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When I was just a little kid, I asked the teacher, what will we see? Will
we see darkness? Will we see light? He answered tenderly: WHAT WILL BE,
WILL BE - the future's not ours, you see. and so on :)
You know the words to that song, btw? I don't. But I have more
monumentally important words to utter on here
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By Helen Briggs
BBC News Online science reporter
Astronomers have confirmed by a new method one of the saddest stories of
the
Universe - one day the stars in the sky will all stop twinkling.
As old stars die, new ones are born, but, for billions of years, the rate
of
star formation has been in decline.
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And more. The dark space itself keeps gettting "blown up" by something,
like a balloon. Balloons are beautiful The Darkness will Fill the All.
Yes indeed. There will be nothing left, but this HUGE big black balloon...
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"The Universe will carry on forever, as far as we know, but eventually all
the stars will go out and it will become a very dark and very cold place."
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Cold? For whom will it be cold?
Now that name alone ensures that this information is 100% right. After all,
who'd know better?
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Neskoreni
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:44 am Post subject: Re: Only Darkness, Forever |
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| Quote: | When I was just a little kid, I asked the teacher, what will we see? Will
we see darkness? Will we see light? He answered tenderly: WHAT WILL BE,
WILL BE - the future's not ours, you see. and so on :)
You know the words to that song, btw? I don't. But I have more
monumentally important words to utter on here
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Heheh words on this ng can never be important.
Doris Day
Que Sera Sera
When i was just a little girl,
I asked my mother, 'What will i be?
Will i be pretty?
Will i be rich?'
Here's what she said to me:
' Que Sera Sera,
what ever will be , will be;
The futures not ours to see .
Que Sera Sera,
What will be, will be'
when i grew up and fell in love,
i asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?
will we have rainbows
day after day?
here's what my sweetheart said:
que sera, sera,
whatever wil be ,will be
the future's not ours to see.
que sera, sera,
what will be; will be
now i have children of my own
they ask their mother what will i be
will i be handsome?
will i be rich?
i tell them tenderly
que sera, sera,
whatever will be, will be;
the future's not ours to see.
que sera, sera,
what will be, will be.
It puts things into perspective. In the beginning ... nothing .... In the
end .... nothing.
Conversely, nothing is separate .... the most base children's song is the
same as the most "profound" mumblings.
JN |
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People's Commissar
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 7:18 am Post subject: Re: Only Darkness, Forever |
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THANK YOU!!! I LOVE YOU!!
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"People's Commissar" <satanicreds@www.com> wrote in message
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When I was just a little kid, I asked the teacher, what will we see?
Will
we see darkness? Will we see light? He answered tenderly: WHAT WILL
BE,
WILL BE - the future's not ours, you see. and so on :)
You know the words to that song, btw? I don't. But I have more
monumentally important words to utter on here :)
Heheh words on this ng can never be important.
Doris Day
Que Sera Sera
When i was just a little girl,
I asked my mother, 'What will i be?
Will i be pretty?
Will i be rich?'
Here's what she said to me:
' Que Sera Sera,
what ever will be , will be;
The futures not ours to see .
Que Sera Sera,
What will be, will be'
when i grew up and fell in love,
i asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?
will we have rainbows
day after day?
here's what my sweetheart said:
que sera, sera,
whatever wil be ,will be
the future's not ours to see.
que sera, sera,
what will be; will be
now i have children of my own
they ask their mother what will i be
will i be handsome?
will i be rich?
i tell them tenderly
que sera, sera,
whatever will be, will be;
the future's not ours to see.
que sera, sera,
what will be, will be.
It puts things into perspective. In the beginning ... nothing .... In the
end .... nothing.
Conversely, nothing is separate .... the most base children's song is the
same as the most "profound" mumblings.
JN
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