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Astronomers are intently studying a dusty disk around a star that is most likely the result of a collision between heavenly bodies similar in size to the Earth and the Moon.

The crazy thing is that what they are studying now is really 1,000 years old–so, in essence, all long-field space research is a study of the past. Consider that light travels at a finite speed and that we are essentially studying the synchronous motion of light waves while at the same time we are moving in relative motion around our own star.

One asks the question if it is at all possible that the “billions and billions” galaxies that we believe fill up the universe are actually just a smaller number of galaxies that have “light smears” and that what we are really observing is the same galaxies in two different locations at two different points in space and time. If this is possible, it would go a long way toward explaining the lack of abundant “dark matter” needed to hit the critical mass that allows the universe to remain at a steady state where the strong, nuclear, magnetic and gravity forces are all in perfect balance.

It is a notion at least worth entertaining.

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