Posted on 11/16/2006 4:27:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Now a group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that billions of years before this mysterious antigravity overcame cosmic gravity and sent the galaxies scooting apart like muscle cars departing a tollbooth, it was already present in space, affecting the evolution of the cosmos... The new results, Dr. Riess and others said, provide new clues and place new limits on the nature of dark energy, a mystery that has thrown physics and cosmology into turmoil over the last decade... The data suggest that in fact dark energy has changed little, if at all, over the course of cosmic history. Though hardly conclusive, that finding lends more support to what has become the conventional theory: that the source of cosmic antigravity is the cosmological constant, a sort of fudge factor that Einstein inserted it into his cosmological equations in 1917 to represent a cosmic repulsion embedded in space.
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Lord, we thank you for all we have, let's remember those who are less fortunate than us, and yes, thank you for making dark matter, and knowing a whole lot more about it than we do.
Lord, we thank you for all we have, let's remember those who are less fortunate than us, and yes, thank you for making dark matter, and knowing a whole lot more about it than we do.
So, while we learn about the great mystery of the universe, it appears the New York Times is drifting away from basic sentence structure, as illustrated by these three phrases from the article:
thus determine whether collapse one day [missing "it would"]
quantum mechanics, , which showed [a double comma-space]
and a variety large astronomical projects [missing "of"]
At least the scientists seem coherent. Regards,
I guess I should have pinged you. :')
was what her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous--Bwitch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de Machiavelli de Marx de Stalin de Pol Pot . . . de Sade
was running around loose on.
And, of course, creating all manner of dark matter in the process.
Shoot, if she keeps up at this pace, we could probably fertilize the Sahara with all the dark donkey matter she produces.
But methinks I've spring-boarded off onto a very spurious tangent from the thread topic . . .
I just couldn't think of much darker energy or matter than that associated with Shrillery.
Sean Carroll, a cosmologist at the California Institute of Technology who was not part of the team, said: “Had they found the evolution was not constant, that would have been an incredibly earth-shaking discovery. They looked where no one had been able to look before.”
Relax, it's about dark matter, it doesn't have to make sense. ;')
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