Image: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY/ISAAC NEWTON TELESCOPE REGION OF DARK GALAXY Astronomers announced yesterday that they have discovered what is believed to be the first dark galaxy ever detected, a starless mass of spinning matter located some 50 million light-years away in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The initial sighting of this invisible object came in 2000, from radio wave observations made using the Lovell telescope in Cheshire, England, which sketched a cloud of hydrogen atoms a million times the mass of the sun rotating in the Virgo cluster. Subsequent data from Puerto Rico's Arecibo radio telescope confirmed the existence of the object, dubbed VIRGOHI21. "From the speed it is spinning, we realized that VIRGOHI21 was a thousand times more massive than could be accounted for by the observed hydrogen atoms alone," comments co-discoverer Robert Minchin of Cardiff University. This suggests that abundant dark matter is lurking in the cloud. "If it were an ordinary galaxy, then it should be quite bright and would be visible with a good amateur telescope," he continues. Previous claims for dark galaxies have crumbled after observations using optical telescopes ultimately revealed resident stars. But scrutinizing the region using the optical Isaac Newton telescope in La Palma, Spain, the team did not spot any such signs of the ordinary.
Researchers have predicted the existence of unseen galaxies in recent years, based on indications that the universe contains far more matter than the visible variety can account for. Indeed, the astronomers involved in this new work note that future surveys may well turn up many more dark galaxies. "The universe has all sorts of secrets still to reveal to us, but this shows that we are beginning to understand how to look at it in the right way," remarks team member Jon Davies, also at Cardiff University. "It's a really exciting discovery." A report detailing these findings will be published in the Astrophysical Journal. --Kate Wong
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Could this be the beginning of the scientific evidence beginning to pile up that will eventually verify the holographically unified ABC hyperspace field theory/model -- that almost exactly conforms with the theosophical metaphysics outlined in the *Secret Doctrine* along with the formulas in the *Book of Dzyan* (that underlie all Eastern philosophical systems of Cosmogenesis and the relationship between consciousness and matter) -- and which is also consistent with relativity and quantum field theories as synthesized within the latest versions of superstring/M-brane and string field theories of Kaku. Greene, etc., and hinted at by the "holographic paradigm" and "implicate-explicate order" concepts of Bohm, Pribram, etc.?
Incidentally, ABC theory predicts dark field galaxies and star systems that are analogous and corresponding to the light field systems of our visible universe... Also, in contrast to most scientific approaches to a unified field theory of everything, the ABC model, which is based on deductive reasoning starting from fundamental principles, fully resolves the relationship as well as the separation between consciousness and matter... i.e.; It sees them as the fundamental dual aspects of the motionless or static zero-point of Absolute or primal Space (as the source of awareness and intent or will) and its eternally moving or dynamic surrounding "Spinergy" or G-force (as the source of all substance or matter/energy) -- by connecting them, holistically, through the fractally descending (frequency-energy) orders of inductively resonant hyperspace (or "Astral") fields that, through coenergetic relationships, fill the "vacuum" of the Planck distance (in metric space) between all fundamental quantum particles and the ubiquitous zero-point of Absolute Space. Such fields, in turn, resonate analogously with the holographic em "image" fields of the brain to serve as the link between awareness/intent and the senses and neural kinesthetic control mechanisms of the body.
This system/process -- coenergetically linking the holographic electromagnetic field of the brain with the higher order fields of consciousness (mind-memory, etc.) -- also confirms the possibility of all psi phenomena as well as both the non location of consciousness throughout the entire universe... And may account for the entanglement of all corresponding particles or energy packets surrounding each zero-point of consciousness... Thus, fully resolving the hard problems of explaining both qualia (or the experience of consciousness) and brain-mind binding (that has baffled science since it became separated from philosophy for the past few hundred years). In addition, it modifies information theory by separating the "contents of consciousness" from its "experience" ... i.e., By allocating the "images" of perception to the wave interference patterns of energy on the surface of the "coadunate but not consubstantial" hyperspace fields, and allocating the awareness-will functions of consciousness to their zero-points of origination in the Planck vacuum -- empowered by their surrounding "spinergy" of infinite momenta and referenced to the static "laya" point of Absolute space -- which is everywhere.
If so, then the fractal involution (like bubbles within bubbles within bubbles. etc.) of the "coadunate but not consubstantial fields of consciousness" emanated out of the initial "spinergy" ("abstract motion, infinite angular momentum" or G-force) surrounding the ubiquitous (non local) zero-point of Absolute space -- exactly reflected in the dark matter/substance fields and linked together by the dual positive-negative (attractive-repulsive) force of gravity -- is the only way the Cosmos could cyclically manifest, involve, evolve and devolve, while maintaining eternal existence (Brahma's lifetime per the Vedic interpretation) in relative harmony and balance between one Manvantara/Pralaya (waking /sleeping) period and another.
