Recent content by Michael Faraday

Winding in a continuous and gradually widening (or tightening) curve, either around a central point on a flat plane or about an axis so as to form a cone. Yeah, this is getting nowhere. If you can't see that a radial velocity of -10 km/s results in the complete decomposition of the sun's orbit...

No, you can't. I can't believe I have to explain this. The report I references is a kinematic study. It makes no assumptions about the past or future. It simply says, as of right now, this is the measured flow of the Local Standard of Rest (LSR). So, again, I ask you, how do you know that...

Please tell me how you know it's an elliptical orbit and not a spiral. This has been my question from the start.

The figure quoted in the article, 10 km/s, if true and an average mean, means that in 1 billion years ago we were 10 kpc. further out than we are now. In about 850 million years we will have fallen into the black hole in the center of the galaxy. That word, spiral, I don't think it means what...

I'm not the one who came up with these laws. The assumption of missing mass is based on Kepler's 3rd law which requires a closed orbit (and a constant amount of mass inside the closed orbit). If the orbit isn't closed and/or the mass isn't constant, then the assumption of Kepler's 3rd law...

Don't tell me what the topic is, I started the thread. I want to know where the data is to show whether we're falling in, falling out or in a stable orbit. Thanks for the answer, but it's not a question I've asked. It turns out we're falling in by 10 km/s according to one study, but I had to...

There you go again, using that word: assumption. The Earth moves away from the sun every century by 3.8 meters because the sun is constantly loosing mass. If something as small as the solar system loses mass, then why would you think something as complex as the center of our galaxy would have...

Beautiful simulation. Thanks for the link. Here's another showing the (relatively) recent collision with the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy: The entire article can be found here: http://astronomynow.com/news/n1109/21milkyway/ I'm not saying I believe in inflows, outflows or a closed orbit. I'm...

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/media-centre/news/2014/06/nearby-satellite-galaxies-challenge-standard-model-of-galaxy-formation.html arxiv.org/abs/1209.0759 We apparently are falling in at a rate of roughly 10 km/s. You seem unusually misinformed for a mentor. I have a tough time believing that...

How do you create a virtual pair of particles that are not entangled? If they are not entangled, when what law of nature allows the swallowing of one particle by the Black Hole to effect the momentum of the other?

Hawking Radiation can only occur with a pair of entangled particles. They are created spontaneously just outside the Event Horizon of a Black Hole. One particle is captured by the Event Horizon and the other, because the momentum of entangled particles is conserved, is ejected into space as a...

Watch any simulation of galaxies colliding and you'll see streams of ejecta. It's apparently fairly common. Note this simulation: Satellite galaxies are formed from the collision. Apparently there's considerable evidence that our satellites may have formed the same way (with outflows from...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this paper appears to be the results of a simulation, not a kinematic study. Am I missing something?

You've expressed your opinion. I asked for references. I would like to read up on the data used and the method employed to determine that the orbit is closed. I'm assuming you must have read something also to have such a strong belief in the subject, so please share with me how you came upon...

Where is the energy lost or gained: Collision with a dwarf galaxy could either add or remove energy/mass from the Milky Way. For all we know, our local group of stars could be the remnants of a galaxy that was merged billions of years ago. Most spirals are believed to have been formed from...