Posted on 04/03/2012 1:00:38 AM PDT by U-238
Einstein is still the boss, say researchers with the BOSS project for measuring key properties of the universe.
BOSS, for Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, has measured the distance to faraway galaxies more precisely than ever before, mapping the universe as it existed roughly 6 billion years ago, when it was only 63 percent of its current size. The findings suggest that the mysterious “dark energy” causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate was foreseen by Einstein, the researchers reported April 1 at the American Physical Society meeting.
To keep the universe in a static state, Einstein added a term called the “cosmological constant” to the equations for his theory of general relativity; when the universe was later found to be expanding, he called the constant his “biggest blunder.” But in recent years, the cosmological constant, which describes a repulsive force occupying all of space, has been invoked to explain the discovery, first reported in 1998, that the universe is expanding faster and faster.
Evidence for accelerated expansion could be explained either by the negative pressure exerted by the cosmological constant (or some other form of dark energy) or by some flaw in general relativity. The BOSS results support the dark energy picture. “We find no deviations from general relativity on these very large scales,” said Nikhil Padmanabhan, a physicist at Yale University who presented the results and is a coauthor on a series of papers posted online at arxiv.org.
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More accurately, Fr. Georges Lemaitre, S.J. was correct.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1945606/posts
Dark matter does not emit electromagnetic energy, light is one form of electromagnetic energy. Dark matter is so called because it does not interact with the electromagnetic force, one of the four known fundamental forces. The other three are gravity and the two forces involved in the atomic nucleus, the weak force and the strong force.
Dark matter interacts with electromagnetic energy, photons, via gravity. There are two ways that we can observe dark matter, either through gravitational lensing or observing its effects on clusters of galaxies. The orbits of galaxies within these clusters cannot be explained by the observed and inferred luminious matter, stars and gas clouds. Something else is hold them together graviationally. That something is called dark matter for lack of a better name.
Yeah, Especially the theories whereby we light our cities and split the atom to win WWII.
I prefer the big crunch to an ever expanding universe and the eventual heat death of same that it implies.
You are correct
The more we probe deeper and expand our knowledge of the universe this question will be answered.
Tell me what you or your scientists say about where the universe ends and what is beyond it or what was before the universe or how can an atom be mostly space and what is time etc. etc. . These morons have not answered any of the basic questions but put theories out there to get grant , the vast majority of these theories about how the universe began or even what it is , what is space, time etc. are unproven. You believe anything these morons say. Hawking is the worst one .This liberal cretin believes in liberal and socialist causes so obviously it is a total idiot but people say it is smart. So smart Hawking thinks socialism works . LOL .this moron has made millions but only an idiot would think socialism works , and also Hawking says that there is no God etc. I don't believe a word steven hawking says but you all do . amazing. the media says they are experts so we have to blindly accept what they say and the sheep believe . lol.
it is all fantasy science but the sheep here believe it all even though they nor their scientists understand what they are saying and they ridicule me for questioning the government scientists.
You had seemed to be saying that you didn’t believe in science at all. Sorry if I misunderstood, or if you state it clearly enough.
And the Manhattan project was predominantly run by the government with very tight security of academics. Just saying....
You all ridiculing me here believe government works . You are saying government research works . you all believe government works. I don’t. that’s the difference between you akk and me. You are a socialists/statists. I don’t believe that government should fund research because government corrupts it. You are all citing government research yet none of you nor your scientists can answer the questions I posted proving again I’m right . Answer them what is space, time. what was there before the universe, where does it end , what is beyond it? Why do they say that we are made up of little tiny solar systems called atoms that are mostly space , and that the electron is not really there but only a probability function. come on answer at least some of them any of you.
You all ridiculing me here believe government works . You are saying government research works . you all believe government works. I don’t. that’s the difference between you all and me. You are a socialists/statists. I don’t believe that government should fund research because government corrupts it. You are all citing government research yet none of you nor your scientists can answer the questions I posted proving again I’m right . Answer them what is space, time. what was there before the universe, where does it end , what is beyond it? Why do they say that we are made up of little tiny solar systems called atoms that are mostly space , and that the electron is not really there but only a probability function. come on answer at least some of them any of you.
No ridicule from me.
God’s Grace to You and Yours.
And make lasers, transistors (by the gallizions on a piece of silicon the size of a fingernail), GPS and the thousand other miracles of every day life today.
“Ordinary matter” falling into black holes contains accelerated charged particles which do emit radiation and are how black holes are detected.
Thanks for posting this.
I’m just saying that since we are discovering more and more black holes and there must be many more that are invisible to observation, that they must make up the missing mass that dark matter was invented to fill.
Pretty exciting to know we are going nowhere at an ever increasing rate.
Well Dontcha know that it is far easier to use the bogus sciences to denigrate ALL science, especially when some of that other science steps on some of your emotionally held beliefs.
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