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Dark Matter Measurements

Posted by michael on from the laden-or-unladen dept.

ksp0704 writes: "According to this article at space.com, scientists have finally measured the approximately 90% of the universe we can't see (the dark matter)." I'm sure it will continue to be a topic of debate for years, but two independent measurements agreeing is a good sign.

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  1. .1 releases are better. by Soko · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the "normal stuff" is thought to have been made in two steps, one occurring when the universe was roughly three minutes old, and the other some 300,000 years later.

    See? Even "God" needs to get it in production, then issue a revision some time later before it's really running right. :0)

    (P.S.- My first thought was of "Dork Matter", but then I saw the StarWars DVD ad on the page. *sigh* Too easy...)

    Soko

    --
    "Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
    1. Re:.1 releases are better. by ukryule · · Score: 4, Funny

      And I bet he's a bit pissed that his users are only bothering to use 10% of the features he implemented ...

  2. Yeah right... by Kasreyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Scientists can measure ALL the dark matter in the universe, but can't build a fortune-telling weight machine that can get my weight right.

    Pfft.

    -Kasreyn

    --
    Kasreyn: Cheerfully playing the part of Devil's Advocate to hairtrigger /. flamers since 1999.
  3. I still think that Douglas Adams was right... by Bollie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dark matter is the packing material the Universe came in...

    No theory of everything could ever be complete without allowing for this.

  4. Re:Creation of normal matter by spiro_killglance · · Score: 2, Funny
    Great so lets all go to the church of leptogenesis and worship the almighty CP violation.

    Our creator, CP violation
    that art in the Kobayashi Maskawa Matrix
    Hallowed be its complex phase factor.
    Thy matter over antimatter come.
    Thy asymmetry come on earth
    as it is in heaven.
    Give us today our baryon stablity.
    Forgive us our entropy as
    we forgive the entropy of others.
    Leds us not into symmetry but
    deliver us from annilahation.
    For thine is the matter and the power and energy for ever.

    Amen.