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Old March 6th 18, 09:54 PM posted to alt.astronomy
Mark Earnest[_2_]
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Default Andromeda is going to collide with us. Save the Milky Way!

On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 3:19:27 PM UTC-6, casagi... wrote:

A galaxy is still a galaxy. Something holds it together.

Ageed. There's gravity. But even gravity doesn't act instantaneously.
Like some things, it's effect propogates only at light speed. A change
in Andromeda wouldn't be felt here for over 2.5 million years !



Gravity is way too weak a force to hold something as massive as a galaxy together.


A car is just a collection of atoms. Yet cars collide.

Again agree, BUT colliding cars are unlike merging galaxies in that
there will be essentially no collisions in the latter.

Never mind about light speed. ...

What ?! Haven't you heard of Einstein's relativities ? Absolutely
nothing has ever been observed to exceed light speed, in all astronomy
and even in the big accellorators ( SP ? ), ( Cern ?, Hadron ? ).


Lots of things go faster than 186,000 miles per second. But when something goes that fast it exits the universe--that is why it cannot be observed.

Your problem is that you are trying to talk according to the system. The system does not function. It never did.