I was looking at images of "colliding galaxies" (as part of a logo redesign) and happened to notice that in many cases, one is blue and one is red (such as M51a & M51b, the Whirlpool galaxy). I did some checking, and found that the blue one is usually a spiral, typically with a Seyfert AGN classification--and an X-ray/gamma ray emitter. The other is a dwarf galaxy that is usually a radio emitter.
Now, given the evidence that what we call "galaxies" are actually "solar systems" with what Larson describes in The Universe of Motion as "2nd generation stars" (where a star goes supernova, producing a red giant/white dwarf pair)--I have to wonder if we are looking at colliding galaxies--or just the early stages of a 2nd generation, binary star system.
In Larson's binaries, the "A component" has exploded in space into a debris field, which gravity then pulls together to form a red giant. This reforming of a star tends to produce radio noise--which also seems to describe M51b, a red dwarf "galaxy."
The "B component" has exploded in time into a cosmic debris field and cools/expands in space (A component contracts... in space, red "A" small, blue "B" big). This would look like an expanding vortex, as the core is spinning--a spiral-type galaxy. Since matter is moving in time and slowing to low speeds, it is a strong X-ray and gamma ray emitter--which describes M51a, a spiral Seyfert galaxy.
So what we may be actually seeing with "colliding galaxies" is the early stage of that "recondensing" into a red giant/white dwarf pair, where the supernova debris field is still dominant--not colliding galaxies, but the formation of a stable, binary star system.
Colliding Galaxies or 2nd Generation stars?
Colliding Galaxies or 2nd Generation stars?
Every dogma has its day...
Re: Colliding Galaxies or 2nd Generation stars?
hi Bruce,
so if you were watching from the cosmic sector
they would look the opposite?
so if you were watching from the cosmic sector
they would look the opposite?
Re: Colliding Galaxies or 2nd Generation stars?
A material observer standing in 3D time would see them "inside out," not just color flipped; but if you were a cosmic observer, then you'd see the same thing because your red/blue colors would also be flipped.
A cosmic observer looking at stuff in the cosmic sector will see the same thing as a material observer looking at stuff in the material sector.
Every dogma has its day...