One-dimensional filaments found at the heart of the Milky Way

[Gerarddm]

Hundreds of One-Dimensional Strands Found Lurking in Our Galaxy's Core (yahoo.com)

Blows me away.

Fred Hoyle was right when he said that the universe was not only queerer than we imagine, but queerer than we can imagine.

The ending of the Three Body Problem comes to mind.

[LeeG]

Re: One-dimensional filaments found at the heart of the Milky Way

one dimensional is kind of misleading as it sounds like streams of electrons following magnetic lines. Woukdn’t they just be dots if they were one dimensional? And filaments are two dimensional. Trippy stuff. What gets me are stars and blackholes popping out of the galaxy at escape velocities.

[LeeG]

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speaking of mind blowing

[gypsie]

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How can something be one dimensional?

My brain hurts.

[johnw]

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How can something be one dimensional?

My brain hurts.

You would think they would have to be two dimensions, time and length.

[Durnik]

Re: One-dimensional filaments found at the heart of the Milky Way

Hundreds of One-Dimensional Strands Found Lurking in Our Galaxy's Core (yahoo.com)

Blows me away.

Fred Hoyle was right when he said that the universe was not only queerer than we imagine, but queerer than we can imagine.

The ending of the Three Body Problem comes to mind.

'tis a most excellent quote - but..

J. B. S. Haldane in an essay titled “Possible Worlds” published within a 1927 collection -

"Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

quoteinvestigator.com/2018/12/25/universe/

and yes, blown away.

[epoxyboy]

Re: One-dimensional filaments found at the heart of the Milky Way

What exactly do they mean, when they say these are one-dimensional? If we can detect them hundreds of light years away, surely they have a bit of girth or substance to them.

Pete

[Gerarddm]

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#6: Ah,. Thanks for the correction, Durnik.

[ron ll]

Re: One-dimensional filaments found at the heart of the Milky Way

Zero D = a point
One D = a line
Two D = a plane
Three D = a cube or volume

Yes?

[LeeG]

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I don’t find anything in the scientists quotations mentioning one dimension in the description but collimated outflow and filaments are used. Maybe Yahoo, Gizmodo and others like the term. There’s nothing one dimensional about this.

[Jim Bow]

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Me head hurts.

[LeeG]

Re: One-dimensional filaments found at the heart of the Milky Way

Zero D = a point
One D = a line
Two D = a plane
Three D = a cube or volume

Yes?

thx, I was one dimension off

[LeeG]

Re: One-dimensional filaments found at the heart of the Milky Way

What exactly do they mean, when they say these are one-dimensional? If we can detect them hundreds of light years away, surely they have a bit of girth or substance to them.

Pete

same beef here. If one dimension is an accurate description then it would be one electron after another in a string.

[LeeG]

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Looks like the term one dimensional is a contribution of “the media”

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.10552.pdf

[Rapelapente]

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Why an electron should't be 3 dimensional?