uncleclover
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By "filament", I'm referring to some of the large, web-like structures, the lines of which seem to be where most galaxies form. Looking at the entire cosmological map as it presently exists, the filaments convey a "cluster of bubbles" appearance to the cosmos in general.
What I'm wondering is if the galaxies studied happen to be in a common "strand" in one of these superstructures. If so, then the phenomenon would seem to me to be simply an effect associated with the expansion of the universe - objects within these filaments would, if close enough together, demonstrate a directional bias slightly different from everything else surrounding it, as they would be pulled along by the gravity of the other galaxies within the filaments much more so than the empty voids betwixt filaments.
So I'm just wondering if that might not be related to the Dark Flow. One would expect to see this same behavior in other filaments, though since it's never been observed before, it may well depend on certain subtle nuances of the arrangement of mass within the filament. Iow, some filaments would be subjected to the "pulling-apart-strand" phenomenon while others would not.
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What I'm wondering is if the galaxies studied happen to be in a common "strand" in one of these superstructures. If so, then the phenomenon would seem to me to be simply an effect associated with the expansion of the universe - objects within these filaments would, if close enough together, demonstrate a directional bias slightly different from everything else surrounding it, as they would be pulled along by the gravity of the other galaxies within the filaments much more so than the empty voids betwixt filaments.
So I'm just wondering if that might not be related to the Dark Flow. One would expect to see this same behavior in other filaments, though since it's never been observed before, it may well depend on certain subtle nuances of the arrangement of mass within the filament. Iow, some filaments would be subjected to the "pulling-apart-strand" phenomenon while others would not.
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