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An infinite force in a finite Universe?
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01/07/2008 20:00:17
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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01/07/2008 18:38:07
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>Quasars are not what they seem.
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>Quasars appear as points with extremely high energy.
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>What if.... they are not points, but regular galaxies. However, they are so far away, our telescopes don't reveal their surface area, but instead reveal them as a single point with all the galaxy's energy combined into that single point.
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>It seems this hypothesis may be supported by bigger and more advanced telescopes.

A quasar can't be that big. I'll quote from the Wikipedia, article on Quasars:

"Quasars were much more common in the early universe. This discovery by Maarten Schmidt in 1967 was early strong evidence against the Steady State cosmology of Fred Hoyle, and in favor of the Big Bang cosmology. ..."

"Quasars are found to vary in luminosity on a variety of time scales. Some vary in brightness every few months, weeks, days, or hours. This means that quasars generate and emit their energy from a very small region, since each part of the quasar would have to be in contact with other parts on such a time scale to coordinate the luminosity variations. As such, a quasar varying on the time scale of a few weeks cannot be larger than a few light-weeks across."
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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