Hunting for Planets in the Dark

Astrobiology Magazine ^ | 11/19/09 | Michael Schirber

[KevinDavis]

Dark energy isn't good for life in the universe. This mysterious substance, which cosmologists believe makes up around 70 percent of the universe, may eventually pull apart galaxies, then stars and planets, and finally atoms and molecules, in what some call the Big Rip.

It’s ironic, then, that the search for dark energy might help in the search for life in the universe. That's because planet hunting through a technique called microlensing requires a similar sort of instrument as a dark energy mission.

[KevinDavis]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[cripplecreek]

Albert didn’t know much about plate tectonics either but he did agree with Hopgood’s bizarre theory on crustal displacement and even wrote the forward for Hopgood’s book.

Not relevant to anything really, just a little factoid I picked up from the History channel last night.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cripplecreek. It’s true that he wrote the foreword, but I believe (I could check, but I’m too lazy to go to the other side of the house before bedtime) Einstein merely thought crustal displacement more plausible than for the Earth’s axis to shift; that’s not a remarkable leap for Einstein to make, because crustal displacement is just a matter of scale different from plate tectonics — a revolution in geology (it sez here) that antedated Einstein’s death by about ten years. :’)

[wastedyears]

The Big Rip? So that means Michael Moore and Al Gore have to stop eating burgers and spicy food. Everyone wins

[happinesswithoutpeace]

bump

[colorado tanker]

You don't know the power of the Dark Side!

[SunkenCiv]

[colorado tanker]

:-))