Posted on 09/16/2011 3:33:06 PM PDT by decimon
Scientists' predictions about the mysterious dark matter purported to make up most of the mass of the Universe may have to be revised.
Research on dwarf galaxies suggests they cannot form in the way they do if dark matter exists in the form that the most common model requires it to.
That may mean that the Large Hadron Collider will not be able to spot it.
Leading cosmologist Carlos Frenk spoke of the "disturbing" developments at the British Science Festival in Bradford.
The current theory holds that around 4% of the Universe is made up of normal matter - the stuff of stars, planets and people - and around 21% of it is dark matter.
The remainder is made up of what is known as dark energy, an even less understood hypothetical component of the Universe that would explain its ever-increasing expansion.
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In the dark ping.
Oh, darn, I hate it when that happens ~ at the same time I want to know what is shutting down “visible star formation” in distant galaxies that appear to have contiguous streamers connecting them.
But this was a consensus!!!!!!!
what does it “matter”?
what does it “matter”?
what does it “matter”?
Dwarfs and midgets are cool.
Whole Galaxies full of them are.. incredibly epic!
I have the feeling that in 50-100 years, cosmologists will laugh at just how wrong they were.
But...but...but I thought this matter was already “settled science”.
Be afraid of strawberries with grey hair but don’t be afraid of the dark.
Has anyone consulted Al Gore about this?
Been reading the electric universe theory?
In my opinion, Physics is stuck in a rut until the next megagenius shows up to discover some simple and elegant truth that the rest of them have missed. Something is obviously flawed in their theories when they need to invent fantasies such as “dark matter” and “dark energy”. If they were being honest scientists, they would just call them “fudge factors” and be upfront that they were merely placeholders to patch the theory up.
The Universe is made up of two things. Matter, and Doesn’t Matter. Matter comprises about .000000000000000000001% of the Universe. The rest is “Doesn’t Matter”.
When will man admit his proper place in the universe instead of trying to defend his superiority over God by simple denial.
Of course we've made strides in all sciences...it's amazing....but someone was ALWAYS and FOREVER...one step ahead of us....laying the foundations of our discoveries.
Footnote...Morality wise...we've gone backwards...a right to destroy a new life, an unborn child. I'll always be ashamed of our country for this approach and the forcing of the gay life style upon us. Shame on the USA.
They'll probably just go back to cutting hair.
1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Sounds like prequel-spin for when the LHC fails to find DM.
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