NGC 7635: The Bubble

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:19 pm

Those photos sure make me want to be a space tourist....once they sort out a way to go fast, that is.... I mean, REALLY fast.

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:43 pm

I remember when I was a kid my dad, who was an even bigger geek than I am, said something to someone else about a "Hubble Bubble." I wonder if this is what he was referring to?

...I guess I could ask him.

*edit* No, it wasn't. More related to the 70's hippie scene I suppose.

And Weekenders, I'm gonna have to concur with you on this one.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:08 am

There was a joke about this ... can't quite remember the details ... something about eating beans and taking bubble baths ...

djm

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:15 am

"Boastful" constellation Cassiopea? Eh?
The woman who was "Placed in the sky in a demeaning position" as a punishment for chaining Andromeda to the rock?
(and there are still people who claim that it is a "lady in a chair", hee hee!

Never mind the Art Galleries, people in Dallas better not let their kids look up at nighttime!)

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:16 am

What a pity the picture wasn't taken with the Hubble telescope...

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:25 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:What a pity the picture wasn't taken with the Hubble telescope...

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:08 am

Two images! That makes it the Hubble Bubble Double!

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:15 pm

The Weekenders wrote:Those photos sure make me want to be a space tourist....once they sort out a way to go fast, that is.... I mean, REALLY fast.

Maybe speed isn't the key.

We have it stuck in our heads the shortest distance betwen "here" and "there" has to be to travel in a straight line between them.

Mayhap it is and mayhap it ain't.

--James.tar.gz

But if everything hooks up to everywhere
And anything can be anywhere
You don't need to go from here to there
Because if you travel anywhere
You'll find you're still at home

If your entangled quanta just really don't wanna
Because they are all knotted up with Strings
And if all your protoparticles are crusted up with barnacles
And in your basement live Cthulhu things
Well, why would you want to roam?

You might as well stay at home.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:20 pm

peeplj wrote:
Maybe speed isn't the key.

We have it stuck in our heads the shortest distance betwen "here" and "there" has to be to travel in a straight line between them.

Mayhap it is and mayhap it ain't.

Methinks you've read a lot of fantasy fiction.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:37 pm

Hubble, bubble, boil and trouble. Wasn't that by Bill the javelin rattler? Beth's son?

djm

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:33 pm

Walden wrote:
peeplj wrote:
Maybe speed isn't the key.

We have it stuck in our heads the shortest distance betwen "here" and "there" has to be to travel in a straight line between them.

Mayhap it is and mayhap it ain't.
Methinks you've read a lot of fantasy fiction.

Mayhap I have.

There is a phenomena called entaglement...it's what sometimes gets referred to as "spooky physics."

Entanglement basically works like this: say you have a photon of wavelength x. Nothing prevents you from changing that to two photons each with wavelength x/2.

So far, straightforward.

Here's the catch:

What happens to one photon happens instantly--note that I said "instantly," not "at the speed of light"--no matter how far apart they are.

Whether or not they are separated by a few nanometers, or a few inches, or a few light-years, what happens to one instantly happens to the other.

That's entanglement--at least, as much of it as I understand. Since nothing can exceed the speed of light, entangelement involves information travelling from point A to point B without crossing the space between them.

Happy Halloween!

--James

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:41 pm

Ah, quantum entanglement.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:58 pm

peeplj wrote:Whether or not they are separated by a few nanometers, or a few inches, or a few light-years, what happens to one instantly happens to the other.

Yeah, sure. You're just, like, super stringing us along.

djm

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:22 pm

Phaser's on stun Captain.