Public service announcement.

[purdyweasel]

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[wolfiepuppy]

Since the 1880's, scientists have observed that light coming from distant stars has a red shift, indicating that those stars are moving away from us at high speeds. In the 1920's Belgian astronomer Georges LeMaître proposed the theory that the universe was created by a huge explosion, and that all the matter in the universe is still flying away from that explosion at enormous speeds. This idea was dubbed the Big Bang Theory by George Gamow circa 1930.
The Big Bang Theory explains why stars in every direction show this red shift. The theory assumed that the Earth is located close to the gravitational center of the universe, which is the presumed site of the Big Bang. So objects speeding away from that explosion will also be speeding away from Earth at roughly the same speed.
There are, however, several things that the Big Bang Theory does not explain, such as the distribution of matter in the universe, pulsars, the apparent lack of anti-matter, the lack of sufficient mass to hold galaxies together, the seeming acceleration in the rate the universe is expanding, and the discovery of objects that are apparently older than the Big Bang.

[wolfiepuppy]

>.>;

[purdyweasel]

And so you turn up again. o__O

[wolfiepuppy]

Yep. I do that from time to time.

[wolfiepuppy]

What exactly gave me away this time?

[purdyweasel]

I dunno, I just sort of have an intuition. ~___~ Plus the fact that you IMed me a while ago. And also the 'xeon' in your email.

[wolfiepuppy]

Yeah. I kinda took a hiatus from my online life. Although, now I'm back, and was playing with some old unlabeled backup CDs and Bernoulli disks, and decided to see if I could track you and Connie down again. -shrugs-