It beats the heck out of me why news papers have to resort to medieval English to explain some natural event that could benefit by real-world explanations rather than wizard witchcraft.Hubble spies stellar ‘ghost’ wandering the Milky Way galaxy is such a case.
Sigh.
Moving right along here ...
"Sahu’s team thinks the object may be traveling as quickly as 99,419 miles per hour (160,000 kilometers per hour), which is quicker than most stars in that part of the galaxy, ..." and while I think that "faster" is the better word than "quicker" and am glad that for once I wasn't treated to 159,070.4 kilometres per hour (100,000 miles per hour would have satisfied me, not that any human has a concept of what it is to travel at that speed), I am dismayed that Albert's earth-shaking (dare I say universe-shaking, since humanity is, after all, at the centre of the known universe?) brilliant little paper is ignored.
I am appalled that dumbing-it-down-for-the-masses has reached the point where the whole point of relativity is lost in an article like this. An article about the cutting-edge of astronomical science.
I mean, 99,419 miles per hour relative to what?
Speaking of windows on (or to) The Galaxy, Those windows were heavy; all eight of them. I have waited three years for this day.Oh, alright then: a rate of 0.003137 Km/hr, because the truck arrived via Newman's Cove.
Exhaustingly, and exhaustedly yours, Chris.
