On Feb 3, 2008 10:08 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
What if the hypothetical existence of one is verifiable?
If it's verifiable, it isn't hypothetical, is it?
The hypothesis can be verifiable.
Aren't all galaxies inherently notable?
Do you know how many galaxies there are?
Not exactly, no. I'm pretty sure it's a lot, though. Of course I'd only be referring to the ones we know about!
It's not practical to have articles on all of them, so I would say they are not inherently notable. Large ones, unusual ones, nearby ones, sure, but all of them? No chance.
Well, see above. In the case of galaxies that no one has ever written about, the question of "notability" is moot.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/021127a.html
We estimate there are hundreds of billions. But only 3000 are "visible". I wonder what "visible" means, and I wonder how many are "observable".