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Scientists Seek 'Dark Energy' That's Filling In the Universe
Wall Street Journal ^
| 18 October 2002
| SHARON BEGLEY
Posted on 10/20/2002 2:48:21 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:47:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The creative bookkeeping at some accounting-challenged firms is nothing compared with what cosmologists must do to balance the universe's ledgers. But thanks to their efforts to make the numbers come out right, these scientists have stumbled on an improbable coincidence: The amount of a mysterious energy that seems to pervade the cosmos is precisely what is needed to allow for the emergence of stars, planets and life itself.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: cosmology; crevolist; darkenergy; missingmass; physics
To: VadeRetro; jennyp; Junior; longshadow; *crevo_list; RadioAstronomer; Scully; Piltdown_Woman; ...
Ping to my crevo list.
To: PatrickHenry
Is this where we post a photo of Al Sharpton?
To: PatrickHenry
It's a film noir universe.
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posted on
10/20/2002 2:57:29 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: PatrickHenry
In 1998, observations of exploding supernovas hinted that cosmic expansion has been speeding up lately.
Relative to what 8-? Al Gore's political half-life? ;-)
To: Jimer
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posted on
10/20/2002 3:08:59 PM PDT
by
ALS
To: PatrickHenry
It must be due to entanglement with the aether gravitational flux, with the universe spinning inside and out. It reminds me of the detergent commercial, where all the oil spreads apart, anyway. Perhaps they should saturate the region above Podletnikov's disk with electromagnetic fields, to stiffen the aether.
Gee, that was easy.
To: PatrickHenry
Recently given the scientific name "Nadlerite".
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posted on
10/20/2002 3:28:40 PM PDT
by
Arkinsaw
To: PatrickHenry
a leading candidate for the repulsive force...
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posted on
10/20/2002 3:36:39 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: PatrickHenry
On related note, did you happen to see
this story regarding more confirmation of the existence of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way?
To: Condorman
Yes. Not of any immediate concern, however. (Have you noticed how odd the comments in this thread are?)
To: PatrickHenry
It's the weekend.
To: PatrickHenry
Just wondering. Why is this crevo material?
To: PatrickHenry
we are left with one more hint that the universe is fine-tuned for life and, perhaps, intelligence.One person's opinion...with "perhaps" being the operative word. I haven't seen too much evidence of this so-called "intelligence" lately, though.
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posted on
10/20/2002 7:10:43 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: RightWhale
Why is this crevo material? It isn't. But my crevo ping list has a large number of people who often participate in science threads other than evolution. Sorry if I pinged you in error.
To: RightWhale
The amount of a mysterious energy that seems to pervade the cosmos is precisely what is needed to allow for the emergence of stars, planets and life itself.I suppose the ID crowd could take this as evidence for a Creator.
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posted on
10/20/2002 7:17:53 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: PatrickHenry
No, that's fine. I am interested in science. Cosmology, too, if there is a cosmology ping list.
To: Piltdown_Woman
we are left with one more hint that the universe is fine-tuned for life and, perhaps, intelligence Alan Guth pointed out that there cound be an infinite number of universes and ours could be unique in that conditions are just right for stars, planets, and life to develop. All these universes would be independent and there would be absolutely no communication between them, nor would such a thing as communication between them be possible. I have always thought that would be obvious, that we would inhabit a universe that is just right for us, and we could know of no other, except for theoretical models.
To: All
Some go the distance, some don't. Farewell, old thread.
To: Piltdown_Woman
I suppose the ID crowd could take this as evidence for a Creator. Someone seems to have strong leanings towards that conclusion.
Until scientists do better, though, we are left with one more hint that the universe is fine-tuned for life and, perhaps, intelligence.
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posted on
10/21/2002 7:29:36 PM PDT
by
AndrewC
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