burning question that has nothing to do with fandom
*points at subject line*
Seriously, this has been weighing on my mind for days now. Off the top of my head I don't know anyone in RL who might have an answer, so I'm going to cast it to the mighty powers of the f-list, which yes, I know I don't do often (ever?) but seriously this question is driving me nuts.
Question:
If the universe was created in some sort of single-point-ish type of big-bang-ish type explosion of energy, how can stuff like the Hubble Deep Field photograph show us galaxies colliding? Doesn't that mean they're spinning from different vectors? Or bouncing off something that changes their trajectories?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ <--- cool video about the image (image depicted at 2:22) with other contextual information on large numbers.
Note: Apologies in advance for probably completely erroneous usage of math-like terms to ask the above question. I'm happy to be corrected if anyone is so inclined. :-)
Anyone?
Seriously, this has been weighing on my mind for days now. Off the top of my head I don't know anyone in RL who might have an answer, so I'm going to cast it to the mighty powers of the f-list, which yes, I know I don't do often (ever?) but seriously this question is driving me nuts.
Question:
If the universe was created in some sort of single-point-ish type of big-bang-ish type explosion of energy, how can stuff like the Hubble Deep Field photograph show us galaxies colliding? Doesn't that mean they're spinning from different vectors? Or bouncing off something that changes their trajectories?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ <--- cool video about the image (image depicted at 2:22) with other contextual information on large numbers.
Note: Apologies in advance for probably completely erroneous usage of math-like terms to ask the above question. I'm happy to be corrected if anyone is so inclined. :-)
Anyone?