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Astronomers capture image of elusive force that connects the universe
http://nypost.com ^ | 04/13/2017 | Lauren Tousignant

Posted on 04/13/2017 1:22:16 PM PDT by heterosupremacist

Captured by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, the composite image is proof that dark matter acts as a giant intergalactic web that connects galaxies throughout space and time. Their findings were published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Dark matter is an invisible force that doesn’t emit or reflect light, and is only detectable through gravity. It makes up around 27 percent of the observable universe and scientists have long predicted that the ghostly substance plays a crucial role in the makeup of our entire universe.

“For decades, researchers have been predicting the existence of dark-matter filaments between galaxies that act like a web-like superstructure connecting galaxies together,” Mike Hudson, an author of the study, said in a statement.

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To: Swordmaker
perhaps it's true, the universe is a huge brain...


21 posted on 04/13/2017 4:41:20 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: heterosupremacist

Black matter lives


22 posted on 04/13/2017 4:43:38 PM PDT by wolfman
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To: Seruzawa

If it couples to gravitation there would seem to be large masses of the stuff all over the place, crashing into visible masses which also couple to gravitation. However, this is not observed anywhere.

Why not?, I’d ask cosmologists.


23 posted on 04/13/2017 5:02:22 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: trad_anglican
Nyan Cat
Nailed it.
24 posted on 04/13/2017 5:07:50 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: heterosupremacist
proof that dark matter acts as a giant intergalactic web that connects galaxies throughout space and time.

I prefer to think of it as, "His noodly appendage.

25 posted on 04/13/2017 5:09:31 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: heterosupremacist

So what they are really saying is that it’s some sort of flying spaghetti monster that holds the universe together?1


26 posted on 04/13/2017 5:18:12 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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To: Fred Nerks
perhaps it's true, the universe is a huge brain...

But the universe thinks only lofty thoughts. . . but very, very slowly.

27 posted on 04/13/2017 6:09:13 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Seruzawa

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=electromagnestism&view=detail&mid=5FE8F4EA9D56D3D0E2AD5FE8F4EA9D56D3D0E2AD&FORM=VIRE

without electromagnetism the universe would dissolve...


28 posted on 04/13/2017 6:13:22 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks

Sankarshana?

“Sankarshana”- literally means one who has both the powers of attraction and repulsion

“Sankarshana” is basically “Kriya Shakti”- kinetic force. It has both the capacities to expand and recede. When the Universe is drawn into him, it attains an undivided and undefined state. It was neither a solid, nor liquid nor gaseous state. It can be compared to the fourth state of matter.


29 posted on 04/13/2017 6:28:19 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Swordmaker
Four and a half billion years to make a daisy and the ebola virus, with numerous empty layers in the planet's concretion to show how many life forms flourished and then died out.

Catastrophes were numerous and sudden. The universe suffers a form of epilepsy?

Velikovsky was convinced epilepsy was due to electrical misfiring of the human brain...long before it became accepted knowledge.

String theory, dark matter, both excuses for people who cannot bring themselves to admit they do not know and are too afraid to step outside the box.

30 posted on 04/13/2017 6:47:49 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: little jeremiah

Reminds me of when I received an electric shock in the laundry, I was standing on a wet concrete floor in bare feet, and turned on the power point with wet hands.
Threw me against the wall with such force it knocked the wind out of me...


31 posted on 04/13/2017 6:52:32 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: little jeremiah

What is the fourth state of matter

A plasma is a hot ionized gas consisting of approximately equal numbers of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons. The characteristics of plasmas are significantly different from those of ordinary neutral gases so that plasmas are considered a distinct “fourth state of matter.”.


32 posted on 04/13/2017 7:29:30 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks

The ancient seers called it Sankarshana, apparently.

I hope all is well!


33 posted on 04/13/2017 8:26:04 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah

all’s well, thanks.


34 posted on 04/13/2017 8:55:01 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Hebrews 11:6 wrote:

4,000+ years ago, in His famous discourse to Job wherein He overwhelms puny Job with His capability, God claims that “darkness” has a physical location: “...and where does darkness reside?” Job 38:19

Excellent, I hadn’t thought of that...


35 posted on 04/14/2017 5:47:58 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: heterosupremacist

I missed it, too, in my frequent readings through Job. Christian apologist/astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross pointed it out. The Bible has much other prescient cosmological content thousands of years ahead of its notice by modern scientists—this is but one example.


36 posted on 04/14/2017 8:06:56 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: little jeremiah; Fred Nerks
You mean they have discovered the Great A'Tuin ?

WOW! I will inform the local postmaster immediately as well as the local Mortuary!

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37 posted on 04/17/2017 9:37:24 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

And then there’s Ananta Sesha Naga.... It all depends on whether you’re talking within this universe, or outside of it, with all the universes.


38 posted on 04/17/2017 11:04:50 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Candor7

Turtles all the way down, it is.


39 posted on 04/17/2017 2:10:46 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Candor7

https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/

Stars: Electrically Connected and Externally Powered

https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/04/11/stars-electrically-connected-and-externally-powered-space-news/


40 posted on 04/17/2017 4:15:27 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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