Paris, France (SPX) May 07, 2008
ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has been used by a team of international astronomers to uncover part of the missing matter . . .
Only about 5% of our universe is made of normal matter as we know it, consisting of protons and neutrons, or baryons, which along with electrons, form the building blocks of ordinary matter. The rest of our universe is composed of elusive dark matter (23%) and dark energy (72%).
Small as the percentage might be, half of the ordinary baryonic matter is unaccounted for. All the stars, galaxies and gas observable in the universe account for less than a half of all the baryons that should be around. . . .
We don’t even know half of what we know.
We don’t even know half of what we know.
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And we were not too sure about the first half
(In my best Forrest Gump voice)
“I’m not a smart man, but I know when someone is talking out of their butt.”
I think these guys are just hoping to be called “brilliant” retroactively, by about 300 years. I don’t think they have a clue what they are talking about.
Though we do know a lot more than half of what we knew just ten years ago.