I didn’t see a thread about this yet, so I thought I’d start one. Just thought it seemed cool and I thought I’d share it.
“And now for our feature presentation: The Giant Mystery Blob from the Dawn of Time!”
Does it blaspheme and bubble amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes?
Is there an ueasy unison with the thonka thonka thonka beat of those crazy quasars, and the tappa tappa tappa of of the black holes, and the thumpa thumpa of 76 supernovas in the merging galaxies?
Nah.
I find it very suspicious they find this so soon after the death of Bea Arthur.
Primordial Blob
Band Name!
<somebody had to do it>
It’s the exhaust from the Big Bang Burger Bar.
It creeps
And leaps
And glides and slides across the floor
And through
The door
And all along the hall
A splotch
A blotch
Be careful of the Blob
Beware of the Blob!
Steve McQueen will save us!
Oh wait, a smokey blob got into his lungs and killed him.
Damn cig makers have killed us ALL!
When you see a giant hand come out if the universe will shatter into different dimensions creating multiple continuities that will be a bitch to unify.
…and then the Chosen One will come.
Try not to think of anything.
It’s polite to cut and paste a paragraph or two from your link, in case it’s just a rickroll or something equally nasty.
A newly found primordial blob may represent the most massive object ever discovered in the early universe, researchers announced today.
The gas cloud, spotted from 12.9 billion light-years away, could signal the earliest stages of galaxy formation back when the universe was just 800 million years old.
So what happens after you get to 13.7 billion light years away? Do you just start seeing the other side of the universe?
It’s obviously a “2001” style love star child of Bea Arthur and Dom DeLuise.
What if the Earth and it’s Solar System were just the poopy from this Mysterious Blob near the Dawn of Time?
It would explain everything.
You get out and stretch your legs, first of all.
OK, if I can ask a serious question in the midst of this blobarific thread.
So viewing an object 12.9 billion light years away means that we’re viewing it as it was 12.9 billion years ago because that’s how long it takes light to travel. This makes sense. But I’m not quite grasping the reverse.
So 800 million years after the Big Bang, there was this Blob o’ Giant Pixels 55,000 light years across, and it was sending out light at…well, the speed of light. So at that point, how big was the universe? How fast was it expanding? Because right now the universe is expanding at far below the speed of light. Isn’t it? I guess maybe that’s where I’m confused. Why wouldn’t those light rays have passed us by now?
Did it take 13.7 billion years to travel 13.7 billion light years from the big bang? Again, that wouldn’t make sense because then we’d be on the edge (or curve) of the universe and we’re not. Or have we been moving away from the Big Bang at way beyond the speed of light and we’ve just recently been slowing down enough for light to come back to catch us?