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A little about myself which might help explain where I am coming from and my underlying question. I just got my finance degree from Lehigh and one of the professors here is a leading theorist on Intelligent Design. Most of the student body finds the theory ridiculous on the grounds of evolution...

I'll think on this some more, I've only ever taken physics in high school. Its just been a interest of mine so I'd like to do some more research. One question before I do though: It seems there are a lot of theoretical forces being suggested are being used to account for anomalies in an...

How could an object be perpendicular to a central point? Do you mean objects that are perpendicular to the direction we are from that central point? Isn't the andromeda galaxy on a collision course with the milky way galaxy? Wouldn't that be explained by this? I just don't understand why their...

Can someone please explain to me why the universe must be expanding and not contracting? Here is my take on this. The Doppler Effect tells us that we are moving faster than objects. "Behind" us, and objects "ahead" of us are moving faster still. Hence the inference of expansion. But , if...