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><font color=blue><b><center><br> >Expansion: Big Bang or Stretching? 6 ></font></b></center> ><i>Speeding Galaxies. </i> A similar observation can >be made about tight clusters of galaxies. Galaxies in >clusters are traveling much faster than they should, >based on their distances from their clusters’ centers >of mass. > ><i>Distant Galaxies. </i> Massive galaxies and galaxy >clusters are now found at such great distances that >they must have formed soon after the universe began. >The big bang theory cannot explain how such galaxy >concentrations could have formed so quickly and so far >away (9). The stretching explanation says that >galaxies and galaxy clusters began before the heavens >were stretched out, when all matter was relatively >confined. > >Dwarf Galaxy. A vast hydrogen disk surrounds the dwarf >galaxy, UGC 5288. This isolated galaxy, 16 million >light-years from earth, contains about 100,000 stars >and is 1/25 the diameter of our Milky Way Galaxy, >which has at least 100,000,000,000 stars. The dwarf’s >mass is about 30 times too small to gravitationally >hold onto the most distant hydrogen gas, so gravity >could not have pulled the distant hydrogen gas into >its disk. Because the gas is too evenly distributed >and rotates so smoothly, it was not expelled from the >galaxy or pulled out by a close encounter with another >galaxy. > >Hydrogen gas would have assumed this shape if space >was once more compact and later was stretched out. >Before the stretching, gravitational forces would have >been much more powerful, thereby producing this smooth >rotational pattern. This would have occurred recently, >because the gaseous disk has not dispersed into the >vacuum of space. > >9. <font color=blue><i> “The discovery of massive, >evolved galaxies at much greater distances than >expected—and hence at earlier times in the history of >the Universe—is a challenge to our understanding of >how galaxies form.” </font></i> Gregory D. Wirth, “Old >Before Their Time,” <i>Nature,</i> Vol. 430, 8 July >2004, p. 149. > >A. Cimatti et al., “Old Galaxies in the Young >Universe,” <i>Nature, </i>Vol. 430, 8 July 2004, p. >184. > >David Shiga, “Nursery Pictures,” <i>Science News, ></i>Vol. 167, 5 March 2005, pp. 148–149. > ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ19.h >tml">http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ19.ht >ml</a>

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