(12-27-2011, 10:20 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote:(12-27-2011, 09:14 PM)DuncanIdahoTPF Wrote: This conjured a few questions/ideas. What if this giant diamond the size of Jupiter (I have a hard time thinking of it as a "planet" since its so unique), is the dead core of the previous galaxy that seeded the milky-way galaxy? If its a giant crystal, couldn't it be a giant data crystal with the arkashic record of the previous galaxy?
That's an interesting idea! Although this particular planet is in the direction of the galactic center, it is not in the actual center. There is, however a very bright radio source known as Sagittarius A* is very near to the center, if not in the center itself. Turns out this radio source is about 26,000 light years away from us- really close to the period of the Great Year- so one of those "weird coincidences" I guess.
/shrug, maybe it got moved from where the center of the dust cloud is by another object bumping into it or gravity or.... its a giant diamond, maybe someone manually moved it to its current location.
I'm not sure if when galaxies die, does the superblackhole / quasar explode somehow? If that's the case, maybe it was flung nearby until it got stuck in the gravitation pull of the star its orbiting.
Just offering some ideas for the geekier than I to mull over; maybe it will result in more discoveries / clarifications. =OD