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This image of two galaxies intertwining was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Diaspora

For thirteen billion years it’s been the same.
The universe through time and space expand.
Arcs charted eons ere it all began.
But what took place before the efflux came,
when time and space were twisted into one
and energy the only substance known?
A gasp! and harmony overthrown
which broke the matter:force continuum.
like spinning coins that rapidly whirl
whose faces indistinguishably blur.
So cooling separates energy from matter
eventually two distinct species unfurl.
Thus separated at the origin
their quest to find that unity again

Once things cooled enough, and the opaque shutter of plasma dissolved, the roiling soup of matter we recognize took shape. Drawn by gravity, these spectacular clusters of matter attract one another into denser shapes to make up the stars and  galaxies within the vastness of space. The Cosmic Background Radiation reveals the wrinkles that eventually led galaxies to assemble in clusters.

This video, prepared by scientists at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, will take you on a breathtaking ride through the Cosmos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LBltePDZw&.

Separated by immense distances, these clouds of ionic neighbors are connected by both gravity and radiation, forces that drew some together to form stars.

According to Relativity, gravity is a twist of space on a vastly greater scale, analogous to the quanta of the subatomic world. That wrinkle in space is what binds us to our planet and our planet around the Sun.

Yet our understanding of Gravity on very large scales is flawed. For example, spiral galaxies should dissipate under conventional laws; there isn’t sufficient gravitational force to hold the stars together, even if we account for the indescribable convolution of a Black Hole. That was what led to the original hypothesis of Dark Matter; it provided sufficient gravitational force to bind the stars together.

Gravity is the weakest of the fundamental forces of Physics, but we only have limited exposure to the distortions that take place around great congestions like Black Holes.

Could the convulsions of space surrounding these colossal confluences reveal new insights about objects passing through space? Perhaps there is a way of tunneling through space that will emerge

Could the puckering around Black Holes be connected to the the force causing expansion? If we could weave the threads of gravitation into the tapestry written from light, what would we learn?

Like time, gravity (at least in our experience) only has one direction. The degree of distortion is proportional to the mass in that space, but what is the gravitational field around antimatter?

So many questions, so much to learn. But let’s turn to the twinkling pinpoints whose presence led to our creation: stars.

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