 The official stereotype propaganda is, "the truth" will
create chaos, panic, and anarchy; the people are no able today to "handle the truth". Amazingly,
that is correct. However, if you think of "aliens", of "advanced civilizations" or even of
"God", then you do not know anything. THE TRUTH is far more extraordinary than just few unfortunate
aliens, regardless of how advanced technologically they may be. THE TRUTH is way more powerful than whatever idea
you may have about God.
"That is not possible," you may say, "because nothing is stronger than God is."
Well, those
"things" cannot be explained in few words, in few articles, or even in few books. It takes ...
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We live on such a beautiful planet, we benefit from such a wonderful sun, and we are
part of an incredible solar system, yet we never bothered to name them appropriately. Each country on our planet
name those grandiose natural monuments differently, in their own language. Each day there are so many important
international conferences, meetings, discussions, yet nobody ever said: "Wait a minute dear people. Let's
decide on few nice names for our planet, for our sun, and for our planetary system."
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Well, let's go further. A quick search on the Internet for "stars, universe, galaxies" today results in
about 375 000 bookmarks, and we have no intention to repeat what other people have said. We will only point out to
some interesting and intriguing observations. Please note this: the data presented in this article has been taken
from generally available sources on the Internet, and we have no intention to challenge it, at this time.
The age of our sun, and implicitly of our planet and solar system, is approximately 4.7 billion years. The closest
star to our sun is Alpha-Centaury at 4.3 light-years. There are many interesting theories about the formation of
the stars and their planetary systems, but nobody can state with a clean conscience today they are true
facts. We have absolutely no idea how the stars, planetary systems, and the galaxies were
formed!
Stars are not evenly distributed in the Universe: most of the time they group themselves in clusters named, simply
and obviously, "local clusters of stars". Many, very many local clusters of stars form an unbelievably
beautiful structure named, a GALAXY.
Our solar system is part of the Milky-Way galaxy [Wow! We did manage to name our galaxy!], which has about 250
billion stars (250 000 000 000), and a diameter of 100 000 light-years. Although the galaxies are so incredibly
beautiful and so interesting, we do not know, again, much about how they were formed. Even worse,
we cannot even
explain, mechanically, how the galaxies manage to exist as they do right now!
At Corollary Theorems we are rather skeptic, therefore we can imagine that only one star in one million could have a Civilization comparable
to ours inside Milky-Way. Considering that odd and absurd circumstance, we should expect to discover that 250
thousand Civilizations [dear brothers and sisters of ours, galaxy-wise] live happily nearby
in our very Milky-Way galaxy. Isn't that
really nice?
The galaxies group themselves into "local groups of galaxies". Our local group has 30 galaxies, with
Milky-Way at one pole, and Andromeda at the other. Andromeda has two times Milky-Way's diameter, and it is at 2.8
billion light-years distance (that is 28 thousand times the diameter of Milky-Way). Closest to Milky-Way there are
2 small galaxies, Large Magellan Cloud and
Small Magellan Cloud.
Of course, local groups of galaxies group themselves into "superclusters of galaxies". We managed to
approximate that in our Universe there are about one quadrillion galaxies (1 000 000 000 000 000)! However, that
number is not final, because the Universe could be a lot larger than what we see today. The age of the Universe is
considered to be anywhere between 8 to 16 billion years. Overall, three things are greatly disturbing to
scientists:
1. Dark Matter
2. Dark Energy
3. The Dimming of the Universe
Dark Matter is something that should be inside the galaxies' core, to account for the enormous
gravitational attraction that holds the stars together. There should be minimum 90% more matter (mass) inside the
galaxies, and implicitly in the entire Universe, but there isn't any. That is, according to
the "mechanical"
theories we know.
Because it should have been, though it isn't, the missing matter was named
Dark Matter. There is no
evidence of any Dark Matter up to now, and it is possible, in fact, we do not need any. Our limited way of
understanding reality is, we relate gravitational forces to matter, mechanically; we cannot imagine one without
the other. However ...
Another disturbing fact is, peripheral galaxies are moving away from one another with an accelerated motion which
cannot be explained. Normally, that spreading motion generated by our dear, initial Big Bang should have ceased
billion years ago. Instead, the acceleration is still there, and that
requires enormous quantities of energy. We cannot explain the source of
that enormous amount of energy, therefore it was poetically named
Dark
Energy. There are, however, some encouraging rumors trying to account for that Dark Energy: they say,
the space is bubbling ... That unexplained, yet noticeable and measurable Dark Energy is way greater than anything we
can imagine, and it simply invalidates the initial mechanical explosion--the Big Bang theory.
The Dimming of the Universe is a relatively recent phenomenon, supposedly of only 1 million years old.
Since then, the number of dying stars is greater than the number of the newly born ones. That is really bad,
because in few billion years we could have a dark, and very cold Universe surrounding us.
Well, the good news is, it is possible the data measured is corrupted or distorted, somehow, or
the theories we
use are not the right ones. On the other hand, it is certain that future discoveries, and new theories, are
going to change our vision about the Atomic Universe, completely, in the
coming future.
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First published on September 10, 2004
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