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From: ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Where Were They?
Message-ID: <1904@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 10:14:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 10:14:26 1985
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> In article <8800010@convexs> ayers@convexs.UUCP writes:
> >>[Spock says] that he was from a place "...millions of light years away."
> >>My question is: Does this imply that the Enterprise was in some other
> >>galaxy (other than the Milky Way)? Our galaxy is estimated to be about
> >>100,000 light years across, so this seems to rule out even the most remote
> >>(from Earth) reaches. Or did Mr. Spock exaggerate? [...]
> >
> >Actually, the statement was probably factual.  Please remember that the 
> >galaxy is moving very rapidly through space, and Spock was sent a long 
> >way back in time...
> 
> How do we measure our own galaxy's movement?  Remember, it's just another
> frame of reference, and we have nothing absolute to measure the galaxy's
> speed against (everything seems to moving away from us).  Also, even if
> the galaxy were moving REAL fast (say at .99 c) Spock only went back to
> Vulcan's prehistoric past, certainly no more than 100,000 years, not nearly
> enough for the galaxy to move 1,000,000 light years.  Let's stick with the
> explanation that Spock was exaggerating to get the idea across to Zarabeth.

   I seem to remember reading somewhere that all the galaxies in the universe
that we can observe are not moving only away from us, but all the galaxies,
including us, are moving away from what appears to be a central point.  The
astronomers can't see what is at that point though.  Tha fact that everything
is moving away from this one central point is substantial support for
the 'Big Bang' theory.

-- 
     Adrian Zannin
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