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Subject: Distortion of a galaxy from light speed

Date: Wed Apr 18 16:21:02 2007
Posted by Eric
Grade level: undergrad School: community college
City: Raymore State/Province: mo Country: us
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 1176938462.As
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The whole theory of relativity is based on the fact that the speed of light be
constant at 186,000 miles/second or 300,000 K Meters/second. I think their might
be a flaw in this that I hope someone can answer for me. The fact our Galaxy is
roughly 100,000 light years in diameter, This means that it would take light
100,000 years to go from one end to the other. When we look at other galaxy’s we
must assume they average to be very large too, Somewhere between say 50,000 and
500,000 light years in diameter. This being true it would take the light from
the far side a the distant galaxy much longer (like 100,000 years) to reach us
than the light from the near side of the galaxy

This should make the galaxy appear very distorted, and warped in the direction
of travel. But they appear to be pretty nicely shaped in elliptical or spiral
patterns, why is this.

Is there some kind of explanation for this??



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