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Old 11-04-2002, 09:11 AM   #21
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<strong>I never knew that E.E. Cummings was interested in galaxies and black holes.</strong>
You mean e.e. cummings, right?

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Old 11-04-2002, 09:29 AM   #22
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You mean e.e. cummings, right?

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Not according to <a href="http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm" target="_blank">this site</a>.

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Old 11-09-2002, 07:16 AM   #23
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<strong>About one sentence of the Buybull is devoted to discussing God's amazing creation of trillions and trillions of stars, yet in the BuyBull he seems far more interested in a ring of skin at the tip of the wee-wee of a primate living near one ordinary star in a rather obscure corner of the universe. </strong>
Exactly.

"He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness."

I've often mused about how incredibly useful quasars are for helping me differentiate night from day. . .
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Old 11-09-2002, 08:04 AM   #24
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there must be a Being
that is orchestrating all this
it could perhaps not just come about
Hmm...
  • Gravity attracts matter together.
  • The more mass an object possesses, the more gravitational force it exerts.
  • Large objects that are close together eventually collapse into one larger object unless they are in a stable orbit of each other.
    (Where the inertia of one object is equal to the gravitational pull of the other)
  • If this continues long enough, the object will become dense enough to be considered a black hole.
  • Nearby black holes are drawn together by gravity and become even larger black holes.
  • Supermassive black holes exert enough gravitational force that billions of objects can form stable orbits around them.
  • A galaxy is made up of billions of objects orbiting around a supermassive black hole.
I'm not sure where a supreme being would be required for this to work.

Maybe if there wasn't a black hole in the center you'd have a case. Then you'd have billions of objects orbiting around...nothing.
(Although, even that might be possible, due to the halo of dark matter that is suspected to surround galaxies. Ask your local theoretical astrophysicist for more information about dark matter halos.)

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