[Coyoteman]

Cool!

[the invisib1e hand]

Piece of Missing Cosmic Matter Found

I wonder what the guy at the lost and found at Grand Central would do if you walked up to the counter and asked if anyone had turned in your missing cosmic matter?

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How did they even know it was missing?

[Eye On The Left]

I wonder if they will ever find the missing matter inside the liberal brain?

[DManA]

Now that they've solved the mystery of the missing baryonic matter, maybe they could solve the mystery of the missing sox.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Engaging in something like cosmic accounting...”

Are these Government workers? ;)

[NormsRevenge]

Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/main.html

[Sherman Logan]

It is thought that these hot intergalactic hazes were created from material that did not fall into galaxies when they first formed more than 13 billion years ago.

Stupid question time.

Why haven't these hot gases cooled off in the last few billion years, if they're in intergalactic space far from energy sources?

[The Cajun]

A similar baryonic haze, 150 times hotter than the sun's surface, was indirectly detected surrounding the Milky Way and connecting about three dozen other galaxies known collectively as the Local Group in 2003 by astronomers at Harvard and Ohio State Universities.

Sooooooo what the hell is keeping the old (13 billion years) baryonic haze perking at 150 times hotter than the sun's surface all this time?

[uglybiker]

"Now we are starting to see the connecting wires of the immense cosmic spider web," ...

That can only mean that....somewhere...there's a giant inter-galactic sized SPIDER!!!!

It also means that ....somewhere... there's giant inter-galactic sized BUGS!!!

DOUBLE

[Rocky]

Yesterday upon the star
I saw a web that wasn’t thar
It wasn’t thar again today
What does it matter anyway?

I just cleaned out my garage, so I have a spot where we can store the missing baryonic matter. Send it on over.

[allmost]

Sandy Berger was only taking it home to ‘look at’. He was going to bring it back the next day, honestly.

[word_warrior_bob]

I bet it was right where he left it, next to my car keys. Could be he re-traced his steps, did he remember where he was the last time he dad it?

[Swordmaker]

"Previously, only about half of the baryonic matter in the universe was accounted for by the known gas, stars and galaxies. A team of astrophysicists has now found evidence of part of the missing half in a bridge-like filament connecting two clusters of galaxies."

More surprised mainstream cosmologists... sounds like an electrical plasma to me.

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[Captain Beyond]

bump

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Swordmaker and NormsRevenge.

[onedoug]

And leptons?