{"id":207,"date":"2011-06-23T07:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2013-02-23T02:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T00:55:58","slug":"galaxies-grow-from-a-seed-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Galaxies grow from a &#8216;seed&#8217; core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) Astronomers have recognized that galaxies grow from an initial core, or &#8216;seed&#8217;, much the way snowflakes grow. \u00a0 They conclude that the core seed attracts new stars via accretion from smaller galaxies during collisions. \u00a0 However, if this were the case, would we not see a more even distribution of galaxies with more ongoing galactic collisions in the universe?  Of coarse, SQK explains this from a different perspective with massive ejections of new matter emerging from these cores to seed the galaxy&#8217;s growth from within.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-02-giant-galaxies-akin-snowflakes-space.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-02-giant-galaxies-akin-snowflakes-space.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2) Astronomers are now surprised that galaxy mergers are not necessary to trigger the active state of galactic cores. \u00a0 They conclude that another &#8220;secular&#8221; process must be responsible.  They were also surprised that the early galaxies look so similar to nearby galaxies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-10-galaxy-mergers-trigger-black-hole.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-10-galaxy-mergers-trigger-black-hole.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Response to the above postings:<\/strong><br \/>\nRegarding the first posting, I agree that this theory that a galaxy grows from\u00a0an initial seed core progressing from\u00a0its center\u00a0outward is in agreement with the continuous creation cosmology of subquantum kinetics. \u00a0In SQK, this seed core is the galaxy&#8217;s supermassive mother star, the oldest &#8220;celestial mass&#8221; in the galaxy that has gradually grown in size due to continuous matter creation in its interior. \u00a0Due to the dependence of the matter creation rate on gravity potential (the Model G bifurcation parameter), this growth rate proceeds most rapidly within supermassive cores. \u00a0Again, in agreement with gmagee, SQK predicts that a galaxy grows from its core not by gravitationally drawing inward nearby galaxies, but by explosively expelling matter from it core.<\/p>\n<p>The finding by Strader et al. that globular clusters near the center of giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1407 have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2011\/07\/collisions-aid-evolution-of-galaxies-creating-new-stars-feeding-supermassive-black-holes.html\" target=\"_blank\">a higher metal content<\/a> than more outlying globular clusters would corroborate this model. \u00a0That is, this leads us to believe that the older globular clusters circulate in the central part of the galaxy near their supermassive mother star and that globular clusters created and ejected\u00a0more recently from the mother star core are thrown further away from the core due to more violent expulsion by a core that has grown in size and energy output and can produce more violent ejections.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the Milky Way also is found to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/ned.ipac.caltech.edu\/level5\/Sept04\/Henry\/Henry3.html\" target=\"_blank\">higher metal content towards its center<\/a>. \u00a0Globular clusters populating the spiral arm disc are found to have a higher metal content than globular clusters populating the Galaxy&#8217;s halo. \u00a0Also the disc globular clusters are found to exhibit a radial gradient with older, metal-rich globular clusters residing closer to the center. \u00a0This parallels the findings of NGC 1407 in that the younger globular clusters appear to be those forcefully ejected to greater distances from the core.<\/p>\n<p>The second point that gmagee makes above concerns what induces a galaxy&#8217;s supermassive core to turn on and enter its active state. \u00a0Astronomers had originally thought that galaxy collisions triggered this activity. \u00a0If so,\u00a0the discs of such galaxies should be severely disturbed.\u00a0\u00a0But observations now show that there is no evidence for this. \u00a0Kocevski et al. studied galaxies as far away as 11 billion light years and found that galaxies with\u00a0active\u00a0cores looked no different than disc galaxies with nonactive cores. \u00a0They conclude that whatever turns on a supermassive galactic core must occur internal to the galaxy. \u00a0One suggestion is that a galactic core might randomly accrete a passing star. \u00a0But, this too is problematic. \u00a0For a single star is unable to provide enough matter to fuel the energy output of an active galactic nucleus. \u00a0Moreover it is difficult to imagine how matter could become accreted by a galactic core since even in its off state a core radiates a substantial cosmic ray radiation blast.<\/p>\n<p>The physics of subquantum kinetics, however, provides an easy solution. \u00a0No, external accretion events are necessary. \u00a0A galactic core enters its on state because its continuous growth through internal matter creation has deepened its gravity well and pushed its genic energy production past the critical threshold. \u00a0It then enters a runaway mode of excessive energy creation which lasts until it has ejected enough mass to once again return to its inactive state.<\/p>\n<p>P. LaViolette<br \/>\nNovember 2011, updated February 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Astronomers have recognized that galaxies grow from an initial core, or &#8216;seed&#8217;, much the way snowflakes grow. \u00a0 They conclude that the core seed attracts new stars via accretion from smaller galaxies during collisions. \u00a0 However, if this were the case, would we not see a more even distribution \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/?p=207\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starburstfound.org\/sqkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}