The size of our galaxy

[CGM]

According to this article

Surprise! Milky Way Much More Massive - Yahoo! News

the size of the milky way has been recalculated. it is actually
5,966,760,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000 kilograms

Funny, but I would have thought it was a bit bigger.

[Gandalf]

I always thought it was 5,966,760,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,053 kg. So I was never too far off.














































Who am I trying to kid with that nonsense??

[CGM]

It's kinda strange, all those frigging zeros. To make it ten times bigger all you have to do is add one zero at the end. Doesn't seem right does it?

[Kel]

I always thought it was weightless as it all floated about

[CGM]

I always thought it was weightless as it all floated about

It is weightless, because weight requires gravity, and I am not aware of anything that exerts gravitational pull on the milky way as a unit.

The more gravity an object is subject to, the more weight it has.

Mass however is a different story. Mass is independant of gravity.

At least I think that's the way it goes, it's been a long time since high school physics.

[Munkymagic]

To sit there and calculate that proves some buggers need to find something more worthwhile to do

[El Kabong]

CGM, I think you are correct, mass would be independent of gravity.

[Dizaster]

There is an equal space inside us that is equivelant to the vast space and size of our galaxy... Getting in touch with and exploring that space is one of the most fulfilling things you could do...
On another note, my head probably weighs about 5 pounds..

[CGM]

To sit there and calculate that proves some buggers need to find something more worthwhile to do

Granted, science is kinda like that sometime. The value to humanity of some things scientific are not always apparent.

[Scrap]

Its not Heavy, until it Hits something else. Then if its you or what you are on for a split second you get the concept of Gravity. or capilary attraction

[X]

I was out for a walk the other day when thousands of protons started hurtling towards me. No matter where I went the little buggers followed and tried to attach themselves to me!

Turns out I'm just a very negative person.

[Andre]

CGM, I think you are correct, mass would be independent of gravity.

Here on Earth pretty much ,for a while longer .

I now understand them to be seperate as you say but interconnected in such a way that different sizes and weight of each has a direct effect on the other instantly.

So in that sence only they are joined. Nothing is constant between them the space between them is warped out of shape so that the variables themselves vary.

Gravity, the space around it, anti matter etc and at the end of our experience or our physical perspective; then matter (which our main experience) is bend out of shape, becomes denser or becomes expansive and can at the very end of its limits implode or explode.

Matter has effects on the space around it like if you had a ball and dropped it into a flat stretchy net and watched those curves pull in around the matter.

This occurs all sides all around everything and because of that effect on the void or space what happens here has effects over there like the ocean when you drop a brick into it , or a planet into it; or when you deplete it, the whole ocean is effected and so is all the matter with in it too.

That is why Science cannot get a fixed mathmatical plan that sums up the whole thing once and for all; its impossible, cause its evolving and always changing.

As above so below was one of the first ancient rules they shared with us that has always applied to everything , both materially and spiritually,also mentally and physically as well; your physical body is forever obeying your mental thoughts from your higher belifes about yourself and you evolve along to that exact rythem.
So that the other ancient prophecy or rule of the universe is fulfilled, that you reap exactly what you sow.

[X]

Particle physics gives me a hadron.

[Youngblood]

Particle physics gives me a hadron.

lol - I'll be borrowing that.

[Andre]

:-) It would make a great tee shirt or car sticker statement.

I find it utterly amazing that late last month a massive piece of space matter the size of planet Earth struck Jupiter and it made a few lines in some papers where Michael Jackson dies and Im still having to listen to all his hits.
We sure have weird priorities in the scheme of things.