My first
instinct is that this is not real. If we
could go there, I would expect that the hole would simply disappear. However that demands that all the light
arriving from that part of space is passing through a lens that is seriously
close enough to us to bend light yet far enough to not display actual movement. Good luck on that.
Alternatively we
are looking a region of dense neutral neutrons that has simply failed to coalesce
sufficiently to produce the cycle of matter and star building that would make
it visible. We may simply have lacked a
useful compression wave passing through to trigger star building in particular.
As we have posted
before the universe is full of matter that has simply not decayed and then
accumulated sufficiently to reach detection levels. While filling the universe is no trick,
actually triggering decay and accumulation may well demand a lot more in terms
of luck and that is strongly suggested as well by the obvious fine structure.
Colossal
‘Hole’ in Space Could Be Link to Universe Beyond Our Own
Last Updated: January
23, 2014 5:59 pm
Leave this world, travel
6 billion–10 billion light years toward the Eridanus constellation, and you’ll
run into a giant cosmic wall of nothingness.
A void in space 1
billion light years across stumped scientists when it was discovered in
2007—then another void spanning 3.5 billion light years was discovered in 2009.
These voids cannot be explained by the current understanding of the universe’s
structure and evolution.
It
is said that smaller voids have formed by gravitational pull following the Big
Bang. But voids of this size could
not have formed in the amount of time following the Big Bang, they would
require much more time to form.
So What Are They?
They contain neither
galaxies nor clusters, explains a New Scientist article, and infrasonic mapping
has shown the Eridanus void to be cold, suggesting it lacks dark matter.
“Standard cosmology
cannot explain such a giant cosmic hole,” Laura Mersini-Houghton, a researcher
at the University of North Carolina, told New Scientist. Her theory: “It is the
unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own.”
Astronomers hypothesize
about the voids, but no conclusions have been reached. It remains a mystery.
Mount Sumeru and other
mystical mountains discussed in Buddhism are sometimes said to be real
structures in the cosmos made of substances not easily perceived by
mankind and which thus appear as gaping holes.
Ancient
wisdom has strangely hit the nail on the head before. See the Epoch Times
article 3 Amazing Coincidences in
Our Solar System: What Could They Mean?.
Putting the Numbers in Perspective
The known universe is
estimated to be about 93.5 billion light years across, meaning the void
spanning 3.5 billion light years takes up about 3 percent of the universe.
One
light year is equivalent to about 6 trillion miles. Here’s a handy graphicdeveloped
by PageTutor.com for putting the number 1
trillion into perspective.
1 comment:
As with most scientific "mysteries",
Dewey B. Larson's Reciprocal System of physics has explained this long ago:
http://library.rstheory.org/articles/KVK/CosmicBubbles.html
Hoyt Stearns
Scottsdale, Arizona US
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