Posted by:
Brother Of Jerry
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Date: January 14, 2022 04:28PM
Interesting that EOD, in the post above, in spite of humor and exaggeration, is more factually correct that Da Cat.
Here's a Youtube vid that points out that most of the galaxies moving toward the G.A. will never actually get there. I picked it only because it is the shortest one I could find. I didn't want to spend to much time looking for the exact moment when the video pointed out that the expansion of the universe is accelerating faster than the Attractor is drawing in surrounding galaxies. The longer videos on the G.A. make the same point, one which you have yet to refute, or even directly respond to, BTW. You keep changing the subject slightly and going off on another tangent that misses that particular point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg04zx39ymsFF to 1:30 if you are in a hurry to get to the heart of the matter.
As long as I have your attention, another pet peeve of mine - you, and to be fair, some of the articles you cite, keep saying things like this:
"Currently, things are drifting apart at a rate of 2.2 million kilometers per hour."
I guess that indicates the poor quality of the science writers on the internet.
This is an absurd distortion of reality. As best as I can figure out from the context of the article you cited, the Milky Way is drifting toward the Great Attractor at 2.2 million KPH. That statement may or may not be correct, but at least it makes sense. A particular velocity can be assigned to two objects. It is possible to measure the relative velocities of the two objects, and determine how quickly they are moving toward each other.
OTOH, to say "things are drifting apart at 2.2 million KPH" without specifying how many things, and which things, makes no sense. Your statement has zero context that indicates what things you are talking about. Even within the Milky Way, which is rotating, one side is moving toward the Great Attractor at a different velocity than the other side. All the other galaxies are moving toward the Great Attractor at different velocities. It is physically impossible to have a bunch of galaxies all moving apart or toward each other at the same velocity.
When you drive down the street, cars going the same direction as you are moving slowly relative to you. Cars coming head on are moving quite quickly relative to you. Cars at other angles are also traveling at various velocities relative to your car. Sheesh.
Oh, and one final thing. Andromeda and the Milky Way are indeed moving toward each other. They will eventually pass through each other. The Great Attractor has nothing whatsoever to do with this. If they are both being pulled to the Great Attractor, they will both be pulled in near parallel lines. If you drop two balls from two adjacent buildings, the balls are not going to hit each other on the way down to the earth, unless something else pushes one or both of the balls sideways.
That's basic fifth grade physics, like baking soda volcanoes.