July 08, 2004

More Science

It must be a science blogging week. Today we go to the formation of the universe. It seems that scientists were startled to find fully formed galaxys where they thought there would be none (link here):

A rare glimpse back in time into the universe's early evolution has revealed something startling: mature, fully formed galaxies where scientists expected to discover little more than infants.

"Up until now, we assumed that galaxies were just beginning to form between 8 and 11 billion years ago, but what we found suggests that that is not the case," said Karl Glazebrook, associate professor of physics and astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and co-principal author of a paper in the July 8 issue of Nature. "It seems that an unexpectedly large fraction of stars in big galaxies were already in place early in the universe's formation, and that challenges what we've believed. We thought massive galaxies came much later."

I always find it humorous when a group of scientists discover something new that shakes the very foundation of their belief system. Then they scramble to come up with new theories that must become gospel to all.

Well, maybe the universe isn't as random as they thought it was.

"The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

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Scientists have never said the universe was random. Just big. Really big.

Posted by: TTL at July 8, 2004 07:38 PM