(Oddly enough, I got that image from another science site, not from the Pokemon folks.)
Posted on 02/28/2006 10:17:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...The proposal bears an odd parallel to another modified-gravity theory that has emerged in recent years, and which seeks to explain another dark entity: "dark matter."
Not unlike dark energy, dark matter is an unseen substance that astronomers believe pervades the cosmos, but it is different. Dark matter, which would comprise more than 90% of the weight of the universe, is thought to betray its existence through its gravitational pull on nearby objects.
Somewhat similarly to what is happening with dark energy, some cosmologists have also devised modified-gravity theories in past years to explain these phenomena.
(Excerpt) Read more at world-science.net ...
What do you mean "does not exist", when hillary is powered by it?
Annals of Nomenclature:Over the past decade, astronomers have become convinced that normal matter -- stuff like atoms, electrons, and everything else we have ever observed -- makes up only 4 percent of the universe. And the other 96 percent, you ask? Well, they're not so sure. Part of it is called dark matter... Lest you become confused, we should point out that the latter, FDM, is not the same as cuddly dark matter (CDM), the stuff that hovers about lonely astronomers when they're working at night in cold observatories. Nor should any of the above be mistaken for theory-saving dark matter (TSDM), a variant of expedient dark matter (EDM) that most often appears when conventional thinking is unable to explain observed phenomena. TSDM and EDM also belong to the larger class of grant-guaranteeing dark matter (GGDM), which only the most accomplished scientists have the power to manipulate.
More rejects from the particle zoo
by Gregory Mone
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Dark matter highlights extra dimensionsThe team argues that such astronomical observations of dark matter provide the first potential evidence for extra dimensions. Others are supportive, but unconvinced. Lisa Randall, a Harvard physicist who has explored the possibility of extra spatial dimensions, says "Even if their idea works, which it probably does, it may be an overstatement to use these observations as evidence of extra dimensions."
by Philip Ball
2 September 2005
You're just thrown off by her brimstone perfume. Oh, wait, that's not her perfume, it's, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I think I saved this for fun, but I'm not going to go check.
http://www.thefinaltheory.com/images/Final_Theory_--_Chapter_1.PDF
The Coast interview this weekend with Lisa Randall was fairly decent. She speaks with a soft, clear, accurate, deep, precise, and exact voice. In particular the idea that matter with extension in other than the three spatial dimensions we believe we are familiar with includes the idea that some properties of that matter could interact in our three dimensions while most of the properties might not, which explains how gravity is such a weak force and how extradimensional effects of electromagnetism would be unobservable. That is, there could be a lot of invisible mass and energy in the greater universe and we would never know.
Lib scientists (the Global Warming crowd) object to such a cut-and-dry distinction, instead preferring to postulate the existence of "gray matter"...
I find that fascinating.
Dark Matter: Invisible, Mysterious and Perhaps Nonexistent -
Posted by UnklGene
On News/Activism 10/13/2005 11:20:08 AM EDT · 33 replies · 901+ views
Space.com | October 10, 2005 | Robert Roy Britt
Dark Matter: Invisible, Mysterious and Perhaps Nonexistent - By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer 10 October 2005 Galaxies don't have enough regular matter to keep them from flying apart, scientists have been telling us for years. So there must be a bunch of unseen "dark matter" lurking in every galaxy. But dark matter has never been directly detected, and nobody knows what it might be made of. A few scientists remeain skeptical. To a lay person, it might sound downright crazy. Now a new study suggests there may be no such thing as dark matter. Fred Cooperstock of Northeastern...
Analysis of dark energy through modeling and inversion of 3-D gravity tensor field
Posted by Red Badger
On News/Activism 10/28/2005 12:45:05 PM EDT · 51 replies · 702+ views
India Daily | 10/27/2005 | India Daily Science team
Volume-holographic optical imaging instrument with the capability to return three-dimensional spatial as well as spectral information about semi-translucent microscopic objects in a single measurement is in use in different parts of the world for the last three years. The four-dimensional volume-holographic microscope is characterized theoretically and experimentally by use of fluorescent micro-spheres as objects. According to some scientists working under classified projects these special instruments are revealing secrets of the nature that can be totally bizarre to our knowledge of science and technology. These four-dimensional volume-holographic optical imaging instrument with the capability to return three-dimensional spatial as well as spectral...
Einstein's Dark Energy Accelerates the Universe
Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 11/24/2005 1:08:26 PM EST · 45 replies · 1,016+ views
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council [PPARC] | 22 November 2005 | Staff
The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a "cosmological constant" to his equation for the expansion of the universe but later retracted it, may be vindicated by new research published today in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The enigmatic "dark energy" that drives the acceleration of the Universe behaves just like Einstein's famed cosmological constant, according to the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS), an international team of researchers in France and Toronto and Victoria in Canada, collaborating with large telescope observers in Oxford, Caltech and Berkeley. Their observations reveal that the dark energy behaves like Einstein's cosmological constant to a precision...
Team Maps Dark Matter in Startling Detail
Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 12/10/2005 2:49:52 PM EST · 37 replies · 928+ views
Johns Hopkins University | 09 December 2005 | Staff
Clues revealed by the recently sharpened view of the Hubble Space Telescope have allowed astronomers to map the location of invisible "dark matter" in unprecedented detail in two very young galaxy clusters. A Johns Hopkins University-Space Telescope Science Institute team reports its findings in the December issue of Astrophysical Journal. (Other, less-detailed observations appeared in the January 2005 issue of that publication.) The team's results lend credence to the theory that the galaxies we can see form at the densest regions of "cosmic webs" of invisible dark matter, just as froth gathers on top of ocean waves, said study co-author...
Is dark energy changing?
Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 01/13/2006 6:38:06 AM EST · 18 replies · 467+ views
Nature Magazine | 12 January 2006 | Geoff Brumfiel,
Contrary to all expectations, the mysterious dark energy that is pushing the Universe apart may be changing with time. By observing distant, powerful bursts of gamma rays (gamma-rays), Brad Schaefer says he has preliminary evidence that the strength of dark energy is different today from when the Universe was very young. Schaefer, an astronomer at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, presented his results at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington DC. Just minutes after the data were presented in a late afternoon session, some astronomers were already calling the bold claim into question. An idea that arose in...
Dark matter warms up: Unseen mass more 'tepid' than thought.
Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 02/07/2006 6:56:57 AM EST · 59 replies · 894+ views
Nature Magazine | 06 February 2006 | Mark Peplow
Astronomers have measured the temperature of dark matter for the first time. The discovery should help particle hunters to identify exactly what this mysterious substance is made of. Although dark matter cannot be seen, its existence can be inferred from its gravitational interaction with stars around it, which stops rapidly rotating galaxies from flying apart. Astronomers estimate that, on average, dark matter must be about six times more abundant than normal, visible matter in our Universe. But very little else is known about dark matter. "Even knowing it was dark was pretty profound," says Gerry Gilmore of Cambridge University, UK,...
U.S. AND GLOBAL IMBALANCES: CAN DARK MATTER PREVENT A BIG BANG?
Posted by Paul Ross
On News/Activism 02/15/2006 9:26:03 AM EST · 17 replies · 238+ views
Harvard Publications | November 13, 2005 | Ricardo Hausmann & Federico Sturzenegger
Ricardo Hausmann Kennedy School of Government Center for International Development,, Harvard University Federico Sturzenegger Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella November 13, 2005 Over the last couple of years the bludgeoning of the US current account deficit, currently ticking at over 700 billion dollars a year in 2005 alone, has led to significant concerns about the future of the US and the possibility of a major global crisis. It comes after 27 years of unbroken deficits which have totaled over 5 trillion dollars. Once the massive financing required to keep on paying for such a...
Is 'Dark Matter' in the Deficit
Posted by Paul Ross
On News/Activism 02/15/2006 11:03:43 AM EST · 2 replies · 407+ views
The Wall Street Journal | February 10, 2006 | Mark Gongloff
Physicists for decades have used "dark matter" as Spackle to fill pesky anomalies that seem to defy theories about gravity, the Big Bang and more. Recently, economists have proposed a similar fix for apparent anomalies in U.S. economic data. Unlike dark matter in space, dark matter in economics is a concept that has been mostly derided by other economists. If it's real, though, it might be no joke for investors. Harvard economists Ricardo Hausmann and Frederico Sturzenegger, [advance] a theory to explain something that has bugged economists and investors for years: A persistent trade deficit has built up a mountain...
In the Dark on Matter - Fabulous Matter and Energy
Posted on 03/10/2006 3:40:15 AM EST by Swordmaker
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