The universe is sliding!

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This boggled my mind. there is something so massive out there that everything in the universe is sliding towards it. Its all in the link, which is short and sweet.

http://gizmodo.com/5238308/get-ready-hu ... freak-show

It's like something you'd get in doctor who.

Fascinating. The universe / physics seems to have lots more surprises awaiting discovery.

Seems completely understandable to me. But I am an enigma myself.

That was a pretty interesting article and a bit funny

That was pretty interesting, overall though I find modern phsyics pretty scary stuff. I watched a documentry not so long ago about how some physists believed that universes were formed by all the respective mass in two universes smashing into each other in a dimention where each universe wobbled around like a big flouting jelly (that wasn't what they said, just what the graphics looked like) and I spent the next few days with a nagging paranoia that the universe was going to explode.

And I thought the second piece in that link was even more interesting, I first heard about the WOW signal in the x-files when I was about 13 and firmly believed that we were being visited by aliens. I don't still believe that but it's a shame NASA scrapped the SETI program.

I've read about this before. It could possibly be due to our galaxy inhabiting a void of space, with a low density of galaxies. The higher density of super-galaxy clusters beyond our horizon of view could be attracted the stray galaxies in our void.

This could also explain the supposed expansion of the universe. Our universe only looks like it is expanding because matter is less dense near us, and so galaxies are further apart. I think this is more intuitive than explanations such as dark energy.

This is very creepy.

I am saddened by the fact that we humans will likely never know the reason for this huge pull.