The Speed of Our Galaxy

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The Speed of Our Galaxy

• Presented by UC Santa Cruz

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Preliminary Results

• Preliminary Results have shown a slight blue
  shift predominant in a vast array of galaxies
  1st run data
• The 2nd run data is predicted to support this
  evidence

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• This galaxy has many absorption lines due to the
  amount of elements present in the galaxy.
• Since there is more hydrogen in the universe, its
  absorption lines are far more intense.

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• Therefore, through careful analysis we can pick
  the hydrogen lines out and apply it to the red
  shift equations.
• ?-?0 z z v
• ?0 c

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Galaxy 1 estimated redshift -.0085
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Hypothesis

• The universe isnt static and probably is
  contracting due to
• - gravity,
• - a massive black hole,
• - or subatomic particles that are no longer
  stretching spacetime

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• Was the universe always contracting?
• We are beginning a collaboration with Caltech
  using distances to respective galaxies to
  discover ratios between distances and speeds to
  see if we are accelerating, decelerating, etc.

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• Is it going to be a big crunch?
• - No, too slow for the immediate
• future.
• - It depends on the situation.
• We are also speculating the existence of dark
  matter.