Posted on 09/30/2008 3:23:48 PM PDT by decimon
If the notion of dark energy sounds improbable, get ready for an even more outlandish suggestion.
Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly void of matter. Scientists say this condition could account for the apparent acceleration of the universe's expansion, for which dark energy currently is the leading explanation.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
NOOOO!!!!!!!!! Not *another* bubble!
Congress should pass legislation now, before it bursts and we have a real crisis!
I’ve said it before: the dark matter in Dark Matter Theory is fudge.
Congress should pass legislation now, before it bursts and we have a real crisis!
Blast Paulson into space? There's a thought.
That could be a factor.
No, just a housing bubble....
No bailout for this Bubble - please!
When I first read the title, I thought this was going to be about the culture crash between Free Republic and the people “out there.”
If 98% of the Standard Model is missing, how much worse must all the other models be?
Mysterious New ‘Dark Flow’ Discovered in Space
Space.com on Yahoo | 9/23/08 | Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 09/23/2008 4:46:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2088901/posts
Mysterious New ‘Dark Flow’ Discovered in Space
foxnews.com | Thursday, September 25, 2008 | Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 09/25/2008 8:58:58 AM PDT by nobama08
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2090257/posts
I think the universe has a creamy noughat center
Let me see if I got this straight.
There is a lot of stuff out there and it is far away. But then there is a lot of nothing out there that we think should be out there but we can’t see it. We give it a name. We measure the movement of the space we can see based on light and surmise that the stuff that we can’t see (but are sure it must be there) must affect what we are seeing or the measurement of movement we have concluded.
Since this theory doesn’t fit anything that we understand, we must be in a bubble of space that has less stuff in it than anywhere else and what we are seeing outside of the bubble is a condition of the bubble.
Now I get it.
All by Clara Moskowitz. Popeye was right - women is fickle.
No fear. Astronomers can't count as high as economists.
Not missing but accounted for by other means. Much like the national budget.
You’ve got the right stuff.
susie
Oh right, it’s not the rest of the universe it’s just us. Sure. It’s all our fault, we’re the weird ones, everyone else is normal. Thanks a lot.
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