by nick c » Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:00 pm
My hunch is that at some point in the future it will be discovered that Quipu is part of an even larger structure. That seems to be the pattern here. Remember the good old days when the Earth was the center of the Universe? That theory was only abandoned about 500 years ago. Since then the Universe keeps getting scaled up. One hundred years ago there was the Great Debate, on whether spiral nebula were actually galaxies like the Milky Way or objects inside of the Milky Way. The Universe keeps getting bigger, not in an expanding sense, but rather our perception of its size. Why should we think that we have now perceived its limits?
Its name is Quipu, and astronomers estimate that its massive bulk stretches some 1.39 billion light-years across. According to Princeton astronomer J. Richard Gott III, who helped discover the SGW and who spoke with New Scientist, Quipu “end to end, is slightly longer” than SGW. The researchers also estimate that Quipu contains the equivalent mass of 200 quadrillion Suns.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/ ... structure/My hunch is that at some point in the future it will be discovered that Quipu is part of an even larger structure. That seems to be the pattern here. Remember the good old days when the Earth was the center of the Universe? That theory was only abandoned about 500 years ago. Since then the Universe keeps getting scaled up. One hundred years ago there was the Great Debate, on whether spiral nebula were actually galaxies like the Milky Way or objects inside of the Milky Way. The Universe keeps getting bigger, not in an expanding sense, but rather our perception of its size. Why should we think that we have now perceived its limits?
[quote]Its name is Quipu, and astronomers estimate that its massive bulk stretches some 1.39 billion light-years across. According to Princeton astronomer J. Richard Gott III, who helped discover the SGW and who spoke with New Scientist, Quipu “end to end, is slightly longer” than SGW. The researchers also estimate that Quipu contains the equivalent mass of 200 quadrillion Suns.[/quote]https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a63742272/quipu-superstructure/