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Thank you all. I appreciate the answers and the tolerance. Time to move on. Sunblock

benk99nenm312, don't be silly. Contention and hammering makes us think. A very valuable tool. I don't use the proper definitions and I'm not very clear. Don't you suffer too. Sunblock

Thank you benk99nenm312 for attacking just the standard amount. When I said "through a mass of unprofessionalism", I ment the way I posed the question without knowing the proper language. I would never feel comfortable attacking anyone on this forum. I ask these questions because at my...

cesiumfrog, thank you. You have a desirable ability to go right to the point right through a mass of unprofessionalism. Therein lies part of my question. Why use C which specifies "light" rather than some other identifier that has the same parameters for usage within the equation. It would...

Thank you. Would everyone please add "speed of" in front of any reference to the energy spectrum. Sunblock

I was wondering why Einstein picked C for this equation. C is just one spot on the energy spectrum, the high end of which we are probably not yet aware. A nuclear explosion, for example, produces energy in the full range, sound, microwave, radio, etc., (we assigned names for identifying...

Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. The amount of energy in the universe is a constant. All matter is stored energy. There are forces at work that convert stored energy (matter) back into less compressed or more compressed forms of matter or back into pure energy. Pure energy, over time...

Maybe the universe isn't expanding. Maybe it is collapsing and the point of collapse is farther than we can see. It's over there. The objects closest to the point of collapse would move faster and faster but to us they seem to be expanding. Objects behind us would seem to be expanding...

Thank you Marcus and that was a kind answer. That slinky does seem to apply nicely. Practically I would think the universe is a galaxy of galaxies, slowly rotating and expanding and we can only see a small portion. I sure would love to be around when the answer is found but that will...

Is it possible the expansion and acceleration of the universe is a collapse to the point of a big bang and the point of the big bang is over there, past the farthest of what we can observe as expansion and acceleration. Please be kind.

Yes, but which God?

I think that a big bang of some type would be self-evident. The only thing that galaxies tend to do is run into each other and make a larger galaxy. This action would tend to sweep the cosmos somewhat clean over a great span of time. Since there are galaxies there to see, it seems...

I don't think I would want to try and define it. Anywhere from a perfect 50-50 split to a full dusting. Anything (other than another galaxy) that can overcome the mass(read density) distance effect of gravity that would separate a sizeable amount of the galaxy from the main trunk would do I...

Thank you LURCH. Logical and quite possible. I've always wondered if the spirals are locked in the gravity attraction one body to the next through the arms (all the way back to the core influence) or by the central massive gravity accumulation. Has the inertia overcome the core attraction...

Thank you SpaceTiger. None of my research turned up anything even insignificant. At the size of some of these galaxies I'm always impressed at the far ranging effects of gravity that hold them together. If we could just figure out what gravity means. Sunblock