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Galaxies form out of thin air

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Dwarf galaxies

Galaxy birth: The UV vision of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer reveals, for the first time, dwarf galaxies (circled) forming out of nothing more than pristine gas leftover (hydrogen, in blue) from the early universe. Dwarf galaxies are relatively small collections of stars that often orbit around larger galaxies like our Milky Way.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DSS

Despite the fact the researchers have never seen the new method of galaxy formation before, they speculate that it may have been common in the early universe when pristine gas clouds were more abundant.

Warrick Couch, an astrophysicist at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, said the work was important, because it shows that not all galaxies were formed in the distant past.

"We need to change our view that all galaxies are old and formed long ago," said Couch. "This result shows that there are dwarf galaxies that are just starting to form right now."

However, he said that the UV measurements indicating that the Ring was made of primordial gas were not definitive, and more detailed spectroscopy observations were needed to confirm the theory. "If the gas is not primordial, then other less significant scenarios come into play," Couch said.

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Galaxies form out of thin air

If Orbitally Rearranged Atoms; aka. High Spin Atoms/Ormes exist (but they have not been studied by official scientists therefore cannot exist because they were not the ones who found them ). They would constitute a new state of matter.
If as has been posited they may be able to reside/hide in molecules then the dark matter may be right under everyones noses.
The only ones found so far belong to the Platinum Gold group i.e. the heavy ones.
Why did the Unified theory remain unresolved? If Einstein et al had been aware of this new type of atom would we be living in a very different world?
If all that has been claimed is true then energy transmission and transport do not have to destroy us.
Unfortunately, as the patents for isolating them do not belong to the Academic Scientific Community, we will continue in the dark. Which is a sad thing because re-writing the table of elements would keep a huge number of Universities busy for many years. Even the very possibility that matter could have a fourth state should be a new frontier with Universities clamoring for a chance to study it. But no it wasn't "one of us" who found it so it is impossible.
Education is useless if those we have educated refuse to grow up and continue to play power games and squabble over status and tenure like spoilt children.

No Dark Matter required?

Does this overturn the tables in the halls of science (just a little; again)? No Dark Matter required, eh?

Formed along filaments of intergalactic plasma? Say it ain't so!

(Evolution of the Plasma Universe: II. The Formation of Systems of Galaxies)
http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/downloadsCosmo/Peratt86TPS-II.pdf

Read it, learn it, love it. No Dark Matter required, just different foundational assumptions. Zwicky, Rubin, et al falsified the gravitational model of galaxy behavior / motion. But rather than letting the model be falsified, they invented unseen, untested hypotheticals that did NOT proceed from any known particle or laws of physics.

Let gravitation-only cosmology die, if its models are falsified. Try taking the plasma cosmology route... Be daring!

~Michael

Is anyone aware of studies involving networking?

Has anyone seen any studies involving networking and hubs that attempt to view the universe and galactic structure based on networking law? IE, the similarities between brain neural structure and galactic structure?