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Milky Way
Milky Way (mîl´kê
wA) noun
The galaxy containing the
solar system, visible as a broad band of faint light
in the night sky.
[Middle English, translation of Latin via lactea : via, way + lactea, milky.]
Milky Way
Milky Way, the large, disk-shaped galaxy, that includes
the sun
and its solar system. Its name is derived from its appearance as a luminous
band that stretches across earth's sky at night.
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The Milky Way is a large spiral galaxy, with several spiral arms coiling around a central bulge. The diameter of the disk is about 100,000 light-years. It is surrounded by a larger cloud of hydrogen gas, that, in turn, is surrounded by a halo containing clusters of stars. In addition, studies suggest that the Milky Way system contains far more matter than is accounted for by the known disk and attendant clusters. Astronomers have therefore speculated that the known Milky Way system is surrounded by a corona of undetected matter.
The Milky Way contains both type I stars (brilliant,
blue stars) and type II stars (giant, red stars). The central Milky Way
and the halo are composed of type II stars. Measurements of radiation from
the central region indicate compact objects, possibly starburst remnants
or a massive black
hole. Surrounding the central region is a disk containing type I and
type II stars. The spiral arms contain a majority of type I stars together
with much interstellar dust and gas.
The Milky Way rotates around an axis joining the galactic poles. Viewed from the north galactic pole the rotation of the Milky Way is clockwise. In the area of the solar system the period of rotation is more than 200 million years.
Milky Way (noun)
star: Milky Way, Galaxy
luminary: galaxy, Milky Way, northern lights,
heavens
Food and Drink, 1923
The Milky Way candy bar developed in the Midway district between Minneapolis and St. Paul by confectioner Frank C. Mars, 39, is a mixture of milk chocolate, corn syrup, sugar, milk, hydrogenated vegetable oil, cocoa, butter, salt, malt, egg whites, etc. Inspired perhaps by his own astronomical name, Mars names his creation after the distant star galaxy and will see Milky Way sales leap in one year from $72,800 to $792,000.
604 track _Man
To Ray_ MP3
by Juno
Reactor off of _Transmissions_ on Nova Mute
moon,
he knows the stars. He knows the milky way..." 
- Australian
Aborigine to Gordon
Cooper (Dennis Quaid) - from the film _The
Right Stuff_ (1983) |
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I have argued that our Galaxy is alive - literally alive,
in the full biological meaning of the term. Like other galaxies it has been
produced by a process
of evolution
and competition within the Universe, following the Big Bang. The end-product
of this evolutionary process has been spiral galaxies that are very efficient
supernova-nurseries.
Instead of the collapse of a black hole representing
a one-way journey to nowhere, many researchers now believe that it is a
one-way journey to somewhere - to a new expanding universe in its
own set of dimensions.
Instead of a black-hole singularity 'bouncing' to become an exploding
outpouring of energy blasting back into our Universe, it is shunted sideways
in spacetime. The dramatic implication is that many - perhaps all
- of the black holes that form in our Universe may be the seeds of new
universes. And, of course, our own Universe may have been born in this
way out of a black hole in another universe. While the fact that the laws
of physics in our Universe seem to be rather precisely 'fine tuned' to
encourage the formation of black holes means that they are actually
fine tuned for the production of more universes.
- John Gibbon - _In The Beginning: The Birth Of The Living Universe_
Anomalog:Milky
Way Has Binary Black Holes |
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by String Theory off of _Made/String
Theory_ split 12" on SKAM #003/004 (2001)
Carl
Sagan from tv series _Cosmos_ |
by Sun
Ra & His Solar Arkestra off of _Secrets Of The Sun_
12" on Saturn (1965)_Chaos
Of The Galaxy/Happy Man_ MP3
by Sparklehorse off of _Good Morning Spider_ (1999)(4:39)
by Pete Namlook off of _A View To A Chill_ (2001)
by The Church off of _Starfish_ (1988)
but was not included in the soundtrack
by Pink
Floyd (Syd Barrett on vocals) from _Outtakes From Outer Space_ |
"churning of the milky ocean" -
Ankgor Wat describing precession
"...what is here being proposed is that we explore at
greater length the possibilities inherent in the analogy between the human brain
and the spiral galaxy, thus transforming the galactic disc into the cosmic lens
by endowing it with the generative capacity
that the brain of man possesses. This, if valid, would mean that both galaxy
and brain can serve as time-spanning (intelligent)
guidance systems for their respective sensoria."
Excerpt from "Messages to and from the Galaxy"
By the late Dr. Oliver L. Reiser
Philosophy Dept., University of Pittsburgh
the Mayan
Galactic Center
The problem of theodicy or
the existence of entropy becomes explained as a severing of communication.
The goal of Earth is not merely to join all human minds into one Gaian
planet-mind; it's ultimately to shatter the "Black Iron Prison" and rejoin
this galactic _network,
reducing the entropic (Kali
Yuga-like) state in which it's currently in. Philip
K. Dick even hints that this might mean the triumph over death. Some
biologists think organisms acquire genetic errors throughout their lifetime
(whether through "wear and tear" or some preprogramming or both), and that
death results when the errors so overwhelm the "signal" or code of the
organism that it can no longer maintain itself in dynamic homeostasis.
The inability of the body to function shuts off blood to the brain, and
thus the "code" of the personality or identity of the person is extinguished
as well. Death is the extinguishing of information
(but sexual reproduction and culture preserve some of it, in the form of
genes and memes.)
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"Our inner growth should now be able to expand beyond
the superiority complex of our own civilization, now that we
know that the ancient Maya had attained a level of cosmic understanding that
modern science has not grasped. That the
event occurs at all I think is part of the grand design of cosmic evolution.
I imagine the Galactic Center as the Rootchakra,
muladhara. Earthlings, out here on a distant spiral arm, are perhaps at the
fifth level, the level of mentation. I.E., the distinctive property of
our particular plane of existence on the great evolutionary journey to full
consciousness is to master fifth level chakra
energies.. Beyond us, in the direction of the Galactic AntiCenter, towards the Pleiades
and Orion,
lies the great open-ended expanse of space beyond our own Galaxy. On these more
distant streams of AntiCenter, towards the Pleiades
and Orion, lies the great open-ended expanse of space beyond our own Galaxy.
On these more distant streams of the Galactic River,
perhaps exist beings more evolved than us, in theprocess
of mastering 6th level and 7th level chakra energies.
I believe that the Galactic alignment stimulates consciousness evolution on this planet, whether or not beings alive during the alignment era are aware of it happening. I also feel that it occurs every 26,000 years, whether or not beings alive during the alignment era are aware of it happening. I also feel that it occurs every 26,000 years, but that this time around is the first time that humans are consciously aware of it. We may, in fact, be emerging into a galactic level of awareness this time around."
- John Major Jenkins
In the standard theory, acceleration occurs after the
big bang because of an ad hoc inflaton field. In the pre-big bang scenario,
it occurs before the bang as a natural outcome of the novel symmetries of string
theory.
According to the scenario, the pre-bang
universe was almost a perfect mirror image of the post-bang one. If the universe
is eternal into the future, its contents thinning to a meager gruel, it is also
eternal into the past. Infinitely
long ago it was nearly empty, filled only with a tenuous, widely dispersed,
chaotic
gas of radiation and matter. The forces
of nature, controlled by the dilaton field, were so feeble that particles in
this gas barely interacted.
As time
went on, the forces gained in strength and pulled matter together. Randomly,
some regions accumulated matter at the expense of their surroundings. Eventually
the density in these regions became so high that black holes started to form.
Matter inside those regions was then cut off from the outside, breaking up the
universe into disconnected pieces.
Inside a black hole, space and time swap roles. The center of the black hole is not a point in space but an instant in time. As the infalling matter approached the center, it reached higher and higher densities. But when the density, temperature and curvature reached the maximum values allowed by string theory, these quantities bounced and started decreasing. The moment of that reversal is what we call a big bang. The interior of one of those black holes became our universe.
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