Bang! Questions And Answers RSS Feed http://www.banguniverse.com/ en-us Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:59:04 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Bang! webmaster@banguniverse.com webmaster@banguniverse.com <![CDATA[Hello.Since the universe is exspanding is it possible that some gallaxies eventually may merge as a result or is there a force that will keep them apart forever.]]> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BangQuestionsAndAnswers/~3/207962654/43 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:08:32 GMT http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers/43 http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers/43 <![CDATA[First, my congratulations to you for this great description of a very difficult subject in a very simple language. Full marks for this!Then, to my question: I am very perplexed about "seeing back in history". If we can see an object 'X' 10 million years in history (i.e. at 10 million light years distance), then how come we get hereearlier than light. When I mark 2 points on a deflated balloon and then inflate it, these 2 points move away from each other but the problem starts here. If they are undergoing changes, like primordial galaxies, they both will change as they move away. So, if point A is changing from gaseous to solid state, point B is also having same change, albeit with some difference in rate of change. However, by the time they are very far from each other, both will have undergoneconsiderable change and it should not be that A is far advanced and B is still primordial. If I am correct then when seen from A, B should not look vastly underdeveloped. Our Milky Way galaxy and some other remote galaxy at 10 billion light years started developing round about same time and were initially close together. Then we moved apart and during this kept on developing. So we should not be seeing it in a juvenile state. Can you guide me how this is possible?]]> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BangQuestionsAndAnswers/~3/207962655/42 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:06:40 GMT http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers/42 http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers/42 <![CDATA[Is any part of the interplanetary dust that creates the Zodiacal Light in earth orbit? Does the earth have a vestigial ring system of some form? Could the earth capture some of the interplanetary dust and hold it in some structure similar to a ring? Is the spectrum from the dust identical to the solar spectrum or is it possible to determine the chemical elements in the dust based on a unique spectral pattern?]]> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BangQuestionsAndAnswers/~3/167554926/41 Tue, 9 Oct 2007 07:41:58 GMT http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers/41 http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers/41 <![CDATA[CME & Comets Tail Query --- I bought BANG and I watch The Sky at Night and even though I do not understand what is going on out there the subject fascinates me, I think it should be simple but it isn't and where my amateurishness shows through is on my initial thoughts on looking at the image. i.e. If light has no mass what was it that bent and tore off the tail.? I know I am going to feel silly for asking this but if you don't ask you will never truly learn. Al the best to you Gordon Jennings]]> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BangQuestionsAndAnswers/~3/165277548/40 Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:24:31 GMT http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers/40 http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers/40 <![CDATA[First of all, congratulations for the thesis and I wish you all the best for August 23rd! And of course, thank you for the beautiful music. I was discussing these topics some days ago, with a friend. What do you think about them? 1. If the second law of thermodynamics establishes that Entropy (measure of disorder) always increases… why, from the chaotic state of post-Big Bang, this universe --more complex and organized-- was built? 2. And, If the universe was created as a result of the Big Bang, why all the galaxies don’t move away from a single common point (where the explosion occurred), but they get farther away from each other as if the space between them grew?]]> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BangQuestionsAndAnswers/~3/143058253/39 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:48:00 GMT http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers/39 http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers/39