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Dark Energy Confirmed

bill_mcgonigle writes "By correlating the results of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, astronomers have confirmed the existence of dark energy. While gravity attracts, dark energy repels, so by comparing the positions of millions of galaxies and their red-shifts with the temperature map of the early universe, evidence was found for dark energy on the scale of 100 million light years. "Dark energy, whatever it is, is something that is not attracted by gravity" said David Spergel, a Princeton University cosmologist and a member of the WMAP science team. "We are finding that most of the stuff in our universe is abnormal in that it is gravitationally repulsive rather than gravitationally attractive," said Albert Stebbins of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, a switch that happened about 6.3 billion years ago, before which the expansion was decelerating."

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  1. well now... by ciroknight · · Score: 0, Troll

    I always thought that this was malarky, and now they're trying to shove it to us like its proof or something. Let's get this straight: until someone can harnest this 'dark energy' and prove to me it really exists, well, I'm not going to believe it. Instead I'm going to believe that gravity is a resultant factor of a lot of mass being in generally one place. Since I also theorize that matter is made of waves that are condensed into tangled balls of electromagnetic energy (sorry, no better definition for "energy traveling in a 3d waveform"), it's simple to believe that the size of atoms are not tiny balls of matter, but instead gigantic clouds of electromagnetic energy, probably reaching miles in diameter, with a super condensed core. It's hard to explain but by lots of these being in one region, its simple to see how gravity works, especially on objects with a velocity vector. But explaining that might take a little while.. But then again, IANAP, although I'de like to be one.. especially if i can prove this waveform partical existance theory.. making teleportation a very simple thing to knock out...

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