I just thought that it was interesting that globular clusters might not have originated in our system (although some of them probably have done so). The idea that material pulled from other merging galaxies to form globular clusters in the Milky Way halo, which globular clusters become captured and continue on through the halo might account for globulars' non-galactic-disk paths. This makes great sense to me.

Oh, I am a steadfast Big Bang enthuiast. There has been plenty of time since the calculated Big Bang and inflationary period for mergers. After all, the bottom-up idea of galaxy formation would reflect a lot of mergers upon mergers and other kinds of interactions between neighboring galaxies. The capturing of material to make the globular clusters makes much sense to me.

I will leave it up to scientists to *duke it out* over details.

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