Posted on 03/08/2010 12:53:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge
GENEVA (Reuters) Dark matter, which scientists believe makes up 25 percent of the universe but whose existence has never been proven, could be detected by the giant particle collider at CERN, the research center's head said Monday.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer told a news conference some evidence for the matter may emerge even in the shorter term from mega-power particle collisions aimed at recreating conditions at the "Big Bang" birth of the universe some 13.7 billion years ago.
"We don't know what dark matter is," said Heuer, Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research on the Swiss-French border near Geneva.
"Our Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could be the first machine to give us insight into the dark universe," he said. "We are opening the door to New Physics, to a discovery period."
Astronomers and physicists say that only 5 percent of the universe is known currently, and that the invisible remainder consists of dark matter and dark energy, which make up some 25 percent and 70 percent, respectively.
"If we can detect and understand dark matter, our knowledge will expand to encompass 30 percent of the universe, a huge step forward," Heuer said.
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Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: Yeah and it’s called Washington DC..
Cool. Thanks!
Here’s what I wonder. Are you reaching a point where you are creating universes when you slam these little marbles together this hard?
By seeing something that you do not know.
Of course.
You don't know "if" it is either. Right now it's just a term you use to explain why your equations don't work out right with the data you've got.
I'm no genius, but isn't that "EONR"
I think some of that stuff is in the White House.
Dark Matter: What’s in Michelle’s thighs!!
the one that says the universe was ‘created’ in 6000BC?
Exactly....my brother who is into this sort of scientific stuff says this is very dangerous...he explained why but of course my limited mind did not compute it well. As was said the earth could get sucked into a black hole...they just don’t know.
In fact, having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the ultimate black hole. How's anything gonna "bang" its way out of that??
And, not only does it bang its way out of it, supposedly we know it’s size, and about how long it took to coalesce into particles and energy, and about how long it took for the matter and anti-matter to KERBLAM, and about how much percentage wise there was of each, so we know that there was more matter than anti-matter.
Science is great, and so are mathematical representations, but it seems to get stretched to me.
parsy, who OTOH, may just be too stupid to understand
>>How’s anything gonna “bang” its way out of that??
Thats what the learned minds at CERN want to find out.
But the evidence we can see and measure tells us that
this is indeed the case. The guy who coined the phrase
big bang also attempted to proven that the U was steady state and therefore no “Creator” needed to set existence into being.
It is pretty conclusive that the universe is indeed about 13.8B years old, as proven with measurement
of distances to various stars, the behavior of light,
and the decay properties of the elements.
Maybe when we finally solve this mystery the Lord will
call us home and tell us we’ve graduated to the next level.
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