{"id":381,"date":"2006-03-16T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T18:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2006-03-16T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T18:55:15","slug":"intelligent-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/03\/16\/intelligent-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a universe where <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entropy\">entropy<\/a> prevails, it&#8217;s interesting to see something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/060315_dna_nebula.html\">SPACE.com &#8212; Cosmic &#8216;DNA&#8217;: Double Helix Spotted in Space<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/dnahelix.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>Magnetic forces at the center of the galaxy have twisted a nebula into the shape of DNA, a new study reveals.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Double Helix Nebula &#8211; Credit: M. Morris, UCLA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The double helix shape is commonly seen inside living organisms, but this is the first time it has been observed in the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody has ever seen anything like that before in the cosmic realm,&#8221; said the study&#8217;s lead author Mark Morris of UCLA. &#8220;Most nebulae are either spiral galaxies full of stars or formless amorphous conglomerations of dust and gas\u00e2\u20ac\u201dspace weather. What we see indicates a high degree of order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/060315_dna_nebula.html\">read more<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It turns out that this phenomenon may be an effect caused by a large gravitational mass orbiting our galaxy center; the gravitational attraction causes the dust and gas in the nebula to twirl around every 10,000 years or so, as the nebula slowly drifts away from galaxy center on a line roughly perpendicular to the galactic plane. This theory is consistent with the observations. <\/p>\n<p>Picture the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueangels.navy.mil\/index.htm\">Blue Angels<\/a> in an air show doing formation aileron rolls with smoke jettisoning from the F-18s. The resulting double or triple helix is a real crowd pleaser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a universe where entropy prevails, it&#8217;s interesting to see something like this: SPACE.com &#8212; Cosmic &#8216;DNA&#8217;: Double Helix Spotted in Space Magnetic forces at the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}