Dark Matter Is Real
posted by jeffrey rowland at 12:26:00 AM
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23 August 2006
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17 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!
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 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 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.
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/
i have known about dark matter for most of my life and it never ceases to amaze me. I just love the way Phillup Pullman described it in his books. i love mind-boggling out of this world science.
i have known about dark matter for most of my life and it never ceases to amaze me. I just love the way Phillup Pullman described it in his books. i love mind-boggling out of this world science.
this stuff is so creepy and cool which makes it fun and interesting to read about.
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