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Old 13-April-2008, 09:59 AM
JimJast JimJast is offline
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Originally Posted by north View Post
Jim I think that the object agitates the clouds by , not through gravity , but by fluid dynamics , swirls of matter drawn to the object as it passes through the cloud

what do you think ! I can picture it
The difference is that this object doesn't touch the matter and it acts on the matter only through the curvature of sacetime (which is the same as "gravitational ineraction"). A photon agitates a cloud of galaxies traveling through them not touching any one of them since otherwise we wouldn't see the photon (it would be absorbed).