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23 August 2006
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21 Comments:
HOLY SHIT! What's sad is that while this is really big news, most of the world has no idea why...
Or maybe they just don't care.
Yeah, you're right Scooter.
I love space science!
This is so exciting
I immediately got an urge to GM a Space Opera campaign in one of those Galaxies in the smaller cluster. ... I mean, yeah, that's a cool bit of knowledge added to the human database. Go us!
SWEET ASS. I go to a tech school, can't believe I didn't hear about this earlier... lol.
At least he didn't say Peter Jennings. That would be awkward...
I kind of stopped believing the story at this part:
"...the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope..."
Colour me cynical.
I told a friend that they had finally proven the existence of dark matter!
She asked me what it was.
All I could do was reply, "I don't know, but it's not normal matter!"
After careful Wikipedia research, I'm still where I started.
I've got an old Science mag from June 2003 that has a whole slew of things on dark matter; they've known it's existed for awhile, it's more that they can show it exists now.
Fun fact: The universe is expanding because of dark matter, and if the rate of expansion ever got fast enough, scientists theorize dark matter could tear apart not only planets, suns, and galaxies, but atoms themselves!
Isn't that wild?
"A universe that's dominated by dark stuff seems preposterous..."
NASA's choice of words... ohhhhhh dear.
I saw a guy in a topato shirt today. I was more excited than when I saw a guy in a Salad Finger(david firth) t-shirt. I wish I was a rogue cowboy billionaire.
I go to a tech school too (GA Tech) and we only have the one old cosmologist (taking one last stab at unified quantum gravity). Cosmologists are in short supply, the data is expensive, usually looks horrible, and doesn't affect anyone. What can I say, I'm jealous.
Dark Matter is a filler theory, it's there to say there is SOMETHING that is not emmitting radiation (not the weirdest thing in the world, after all, do YOU emmit much radiation?) but has to be there for General Relativity to work. It could be ordinary matter, it could be something totally sci-fi, it could be a lot of things.
Our understanding of the universe was increased when we realized the stars and nebula were mostly plasma, a similar increase in understanding should occur as we are able to actually name and characterize the constituents of dark matter. Keep in mind a lot of these names that could be given (neutrons, iron, etc) might already exist.
Well, it's like this: there could have been some incredibly hypermassive object somewhere that was as unimaginably huge as space is unimaginably empty. Finding out the missing mass is probably just dark particles spread out means there's no Cthulhu, and I for one am unimaginably relieved.
More details, with pictures, if you're interested.
I remember when respected Physics journals had ads selling experimental $5000 "cold fusion" generators back when people still thought that was a possibility. Science is just con art by the uncharismatic.
wow, this is intense. It shows you just how far ahead of his time Albert Einstein was though.
I haven't seen a link but apparently some asshat let small rattlesnakes loose during a showing of Snakes on a Plane. Non poisonous snakes would have been funnier IMHO.
i seriously considered bringing my pet snake wiht me to SoaP. But it was asleep and i didnt want him to have some sort of grudge against me and then sqeeze me to deasth in my sleep.
Also, this is some pretty cool news.
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Andrew: Believe it or not, it really is called the VLT (very large telescope).
The BBC has a very nice, simple site devoted to explaining astronomical phenomena such as dark matter. It takes it to an "elementary" level but it's still fun. They have yet to update with this news however.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/deepspace/
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