Originally Posted By: Mike Kremer
Originally Posted By: redewenur
By now that quasar has probably evolved into a galaxy of more than a 100 billion stars, it may be teeming with life, some of which peers into a night sky and notices a distant quasar that is destined to become our Milky Way.

Now thats a very intellectual and succinct sentence, Rede.
Given 13 billion years evolvement, I believe you are right wink

Thank you Mike, but it's hardly intellectual. When astronomers look into the remote distance, they see our remote past.

Theory says that black holes became quasars which became active galaxies (galaxies containing super-massive black holes). Our galaxy is an 'active galaxy', so maybe I should think that it, also, was a quasar...

...which was a primordial black hole, which was a vast cloud of hydrogen, helium and lithium, which was quarks and leptons, which were photons, which were from a unified force, which was from a singularity, which was from...???

It's beautiful, don't you think?


"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler