discover.com/issues/nov-06/r … -universe/
Admittedly, I don’t really understand the above explanation. Nonetheless, it’s interesting to know that there’s more substantial proof of its existence.
discover.com/issues/nov-06/r … -universe/
Admittedly, I don’t really understand the above explanation. Nonetheless, it’s interesting to know that there’s more substantial proof of its existence.
I don’t understand either. I guess the lack of a very strong interaction with respect to dark matter makes it less affected by the collision.
Don’t know why, but this quest for the missing matter in the universe interests me. Here’s the latest:
Missing (dark) matter found in deep space
[quote]Astronomers have found some matter that had been missing in deep space and say it is strung along web-like filaments that form the backbone of the universe.
The ethereal strands of hydrogen and oxygen atoms could account for up to half the matter that scientists knew must be there but simply could not see, the researchers reported on Tuesday.
Scientists have long known there is far more matter in the universe than can be accounted for by visible galaxies and stars. Not only is there invisible baryonic matter – the protons and neutrons that make up atoms – but there also is an even larger amount of invisible “dark” matter.
Now about half of the missing baryonic matter has turned up, seen by the orbiting Hubble space telescope and NASA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, or FUSE.
“We think we are seeing the strands of a web-like structure that forms the backbone of the universe,” said Mike Shull of the University of Colorado, who helped lead the study published in The Astrophysical Journal.
The matter is spread as superheated oxygen and hydrogen in what looked like vast empty spaces between galaxies.
However, observations of a quasar – a bright object far off in space – show its light is diffused much as a lighthouse can reflect on a thin fog that was invisible in the dark.[/quote][/url]
My understanding is pretty limited, but I just had a quick chat with my Physics geek hubby who told me that this shatters a whole host of prior theories regarding dark matter, namely theories on neutrinos and weakly interacting particles…whatever that means! He promised to explain it to me in depth tomorrow over a beer. I’ll pass on any info that he gives to me in layman’s terms!
This links to a Discover Card website…
Its just a scam to keep physists employed.
As long as it’s not MY galaxy that they’re smashing…
[quote=“Screaming Jesus”]As long as it’s not MY galaxy that they’re smashing…[/quote]Bad news: en.wikinews.org/wiki/Hydrogen_ga … Way_galaxy
web-like strands of hydrogen and oxygen atoms form the backbone of the universe? i’m no physicist but i think they need to find a better analogy, lol.