this is pretty wild to conceive of.....

[callmeslick]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50434185/ns ... ?gt1=43001

[Sergeant Thorne]

Does that fly in the face of the big bang theory? Is that the theory behind the universe' supposed "homogeneousness"?

Amazing discovery, and it won't be the last.

What a relief!

[callmeslick]

no clue, Thorne.....cosmology isn't my thing, but I just find the concept of that size mind-boggling.

[Sergeant Thorne]

That really is cool to think there is something in the universe so much bigger. Always makes me wonder though. I'd sure like it if they revealed their methods along with their discovery. One is just as interesting as the other, IMO.

[Alter-Fox]

I agree completely. With a discovery of such mind-boggling strangeness and bigness and... bright-galaxy-ness; I'd like to actually see how it was made.
Over the course of recent history many strange discoveries (mostly in the area of weight loss, but still... ) are claimed to have been made but there is nowhere where you can read about how the supposed discovery was made. And many of those discoveries turn out to be false. So I tend to get a little bit skeptical when there is no explanation given. At least this article gives a citation but it is a pretty hard one to follow. So that's only very slightly suspicious.

[Top Gun]

The article mentions that the structure was observed via the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, so they discovered this by simply looking up. Or to be a bit more accurate, they probably spent a few years poring over the metric crap-ton of infrared data generated by the survey, and were able to piece together a structure that made them stop and say, "Holy crap this thing is huge."

[Isaac]

galactic acid tablets help me digest this kind of news... ok... i'm going to bed

[Avder]

On the scale of the whole universe, we are not even big enough to call ourselves specks.

[Heretic]

OMG callmeslick post in a non E&C section of the board. That is almost as amazing as the large quasar group.

[sdfgeoff]

We need one of these these

[callmeslick]

OMG callmeslick post in a non E&C section of the board. That is almost as amazing as the large quasar group.

and far more frightening.....
I have actually posted here before, but.....

[snoopy]

Yo mama so fat, she makes the LQG look small.

[callmeslick]

[woodchip]

Good find Slick. Our galaxy is 100k ly's wide. This thing is 4 billion ly's across Astronomers say they didn't think something like this could exist. Kinda makes you wonder what else is out there that can't exist?

[Alter-Fox]

Implication noted and thoroughly ignored .

[callmeslick]

Good find Slick. Our galaxy is 100k ly's wide. This thing is 4 billion ly's across Astronomers say they didn't think something like this could exist. Kinda makes you wonder what else is out there that can't exist?

and that, precisely, is the entire purpose of Science.

[flip]

If our eyes were scanning tunneling microscopes we could see that the world is actually all a bunch of little pieces held together to create visible matter. They can actually reach down down and move those atoms and record the sounds they make as they rub against each other So, although our world seems to be solid, on a microscopic scale it is actually all little jigsaw pieces combined to make substance.

[woodchip]

Good find Slick. Our galaxy is 100k ly's wide. This thing is 4 billion ly's across Astronomers say they didn't think something like this could exist. Kinda makes you wonder what else is out there that can't exist?

and that, precisely, is the entire purpose of Science.

Golly gee, with a degree in zoology I would of never understood that. Thanks for helping me understand...