Elaine Meinel Supkis
Astronomers examining the crystals brought back by the Wild 2 probe have decided the crystals could only have been created in a very hot explosion. I say, comets are part of that huge dirty debris field created in the Big Bang. As our sun is, too, incidentally.
Pieces of a comet returned to Earth by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft apparently formed near the Sun or around another star altogether before being flung to the outer edges of the Solar System, mission scientists said Monday.Researchers studying samples of Comet Wild 2 (pronounced “Vilt 2”) embedded in Stardust’s gel-filled collector found that the minerals formed under extremely high temperatures – such as those near a star – and not in the frigid cold expected at the Solar System’s edge, where most short-term comets originate.
“In the coldest part of the solar system we’ve found samples that formed at extremely high temperatures,” said Donald Brownlee, Stardust’s principal investigator at the University of Washington in Seattle, during a Monday press conference. “When these minerals formed they were either red hot or white hot grains, and yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the Solar System.”
Anything to keep the dogma going! "Formed around another star"? We have to step outside our own gravitational pool and take a hard look at our galaxy. Even from our star system we can see huge, gigantic sheets of non-shiny stuff that looks like massive, thousands and thousands of light years long in size, clouds of dirt. We can't see much of our own galaxy thanks to this incredible amount of dirt which would be invisible except it blocks the light of our central black hole complex!
We now know, thanks to Hubble's wonderful pictures, that stars form out of these massive, dark clouds of everything imaginable, the full spectrum of elements are in these clouds and when the dirt falls into the gravitational pool of the galaxy, it gets compressed and collects in tighter and tighter knots and then suddenly collects sufficiently to flare into fire and become a star. Does this happen far away from galaxies?
Nope. Only as these wads of dirt approach a galaxy, do they become "stars". So where did this dirt come from?
Other galaxies? Why would other black holes loose their dirt? Like busy vacuum cleaners, all galaxies suction in all dirt. As they travel across time and space, other things travel too, including lots and lots and lots of dirt that was created in the Big Bang. This dirt doesn't matter to much when scattered evenly across the ever expanding universe but as things moved apart, this stuff slid into the nearest funnel, aka, black holes.
When two galaxies finally fall into each other as they are all doomed to do in the end (hahahaha, so much for the ever-expanding cosmos!), when they collide, they flare up and alot of this dirt they are sucking in, turns rapidly into really big stars, lots of them, too! The trailing edge of the collision is the most brilliantly lit. When stars are formed out of compressed material, as they begin to shine, they shove away alot of the dirt that surrounds them which is why we aren't being bombarded every day by dirt from space.
Wait! We ARE! Every day, fine dust falls, sometimes bigger things fall, too! We call them comets, meteors and of course, space dust. We know virtually nothing about where this dust comes from but looking at our galaxy from far away, one immediately notices that this dirt is coming exclusively and only from the darkness that surrounds our galaxy. There are no stars around us, only small sub-galaxies that are also being sucked into our dear Milky Way!
There are NO EXPLOSIONS happening in the darkness of space or we would be seeing explosions!
So if the comets we see today were created in a really hot explosion, it wasn't some nearby star! It most likely was part of the vast armada of dirt that spirals into our galaxy, dirt from the Outer Darkness that surrounds us.
We are being sucked into the central black hole, slowly but surely. And the dirt that made our sun, 6 billion years ago, was part of this dark collection of incredibly old debrie that was finally swept into shape by the Milky Way's black hole.
Astronomers aren’t sure whether the minerals found in Stardust’s comet samples formed near the Sun or around another star, though isotope scans are expected determine that for sure in upcoming tests, Brownlee said. Olivine, a mix of iron and magnesium that appears green on some Earth beaches, is one of the several surprising compounds found in the Wild 2 samples, he added.
Namely, all the elements created here, that assembled, that makes us, was created in the Big Bang itself.
Of course, this is a crazy idea but science moves forwards when people suggest a new way of looking at things.
No explosions? What about supernovas and gamma ray bursters?
Posted by: Skamandros | April 01, 2006 at 10:55 PM
Look at the volume of dirt sliding into our galaxy. A big star blow up can't cause it and this dirt is coming in on all sides and all spiral galaxies have huge volumes of dirt being vacuumed in from the darkness of space.
And there aren't zillions of stars exploding OUTSIDE galaxies, they are INSIDE.
Any debrie they make would show up inside the inner arms, not on the outside perimeter.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | April 02, 2006 at 09:11 AM