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Do We Live in a Giant Cosmic Bubble?
SPACE.com ^ | Sep 30, 2008 | Clara Moskowitz

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 ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Local News; Science
KEYWORDS: darkenergy; darkflow; darkforce; darkmatter; stringtheory
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Maybe we don't matter as much as we thought. But surely we are energetic.
1 posted on 09/30/2008 3:23:49 PM PDT by decimon
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NOOOO!!!!!!!!! Not *another* bubble!

Congress should pass legislation now, before it bursts and we have a real crisis!


2 posted on 09/30/2008 3:25:34 PM PDT by cizinec
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To: decimon

I’ve said it before: the dark matter in Dark Matter Theory is fudge.


3 posted on 09/30/2008 3:29:01 PM PDT by Grut
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To: cizinec
NOOOO!!!!!!!!! Not *another* bubble!

Congress should pass legislation now, before it bursts and we have a real crisis!

Blast Paulson into space? There's a thought.

4 posted on 09/30/2008 3:29:02 PM PDT by decimon
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I’ve said it before: the dark matter in Dark Matter Theory is fudge.

That could be a factor.

5 posted on 09/30/2008 3:30:31 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

No, just a housing bubble....


6 posted on 09/30/2008 3:32:56 PM PDT by refermech
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To: decimon

No bailout for this Bubble - please!


7 posted on 09/30/2008 3:33:27 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: decimon

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.”


8 posted on 09/30/2008 3:35:14 PM PDT by keats5 ("I hope for his sake, Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing."- Rudy)
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To: decimon

9 posted on 09/30/2008 3:35:30 PM PDT by x
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If 98% of the Standard Model is missing, how much worse must all the other models be?


10 posted on 09/30/2008 3:36:16 PM PDT by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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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


11 posted on 09/30/2008 3:48:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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12 posted on 09/30/2008 3:48:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: Philo-Junius

I think the universe has a creamy noughat center


13 posted on 09/30/2008 3:50:01 PM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: decimon

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.


14 posted on 09/30/2008 3:51:16 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Democrats are for Change - Let's run through a mine field at night wearing clown shoes!)
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To: SunkenCiv

All by Clara Moskowitz. Popeye was right - women is fickle.


15 posted on 09/30/2008 3:52:57 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald
No bailout for this Bubble - please!

No fear. Astronomers can't count as high as economists.

16 posted on 09/30/2008 3:55:02 PM PDT by decimon
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If 98% of the Standard Model is missing...

Not missing but accounted for by other means. Much like the national budget.

17 posted on 09/30/2008 3:57:23 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Tenacious 1

You’ve got the right stuff.


18 posted on 09/30/2008 3:58:14 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
Like this?

Pink Drop

susie

19 posted on 09/30/2008 4:10:32 PM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Keep the change!)
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To: decimon

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.


20 posted on 09/30/2008 4:12:07 PM PDT by ovrtaxt ( One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress. --John Adams)
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