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Chandra Provides Support For Dark Energy
starannihilator writes "The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has provided new evidence supporting the existence of dark energy, the force causing the acceleration of universal expansion. The new findings support the theory that the universe will expand forever, provided there is enough dark matter. CNN and Newsday are running the story, originally reported by NASA. Chandra's site has some good images and information on the three galaxies clusters studied (Abell 2029, MS2137.3-2353, and MS1137.5+6625)."
I am eagerly awaiting the next annoncement where someone again finds evidence to refute the dark matter claims. It seems like the science; "Dark Matter is like this" - "No, it can't be, actually it's like that". Is not going to end soon.
Join me. Come to the dark side, and together, we will expand the universe.
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I dated a girl named Chanda once. Dark energy is a good way to describe her.
Considering they are pics of things between 1 billion and 6 billion light years away.
If only the goatse guy was that far from the camera in that photo.....
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how do we know if something outside the universe isnt affecting it.
I'd like to think we live on an electron in orbit around the proton of a molecule as part of a giant coffee mug -- our universe is expanding due to some even bigger geek having just poured hot coffee in our universal mug.
It's "dark" cuz that's how this geek likes his coffee.
Because I've got a kickass deck of Pokemon cards that's centered around Dark Energy. . . that's right, I'm baaaad.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
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What, no pictures of "dark matter"?! That I'd call an announcement!!
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Whenever life get's you down, Mrs. Brown
and things seem hard and tough,
and people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
and it feels that you've had quite enough---
Just remember that your standing on a planet that's evolving,
revolving at 900 miles per hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles per second, so it's reckoned,
a sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun, and you and me and all the stars that we can see
are moving at a million miles a day,
in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour,
in this galaxy we call the milky way.
The galaxy itself contains 100 million stars,
it's 40 thousand light years side-to-side.
It bulges in the middle 30 thousand light years thick,
but out by us it's just 3000 light years wide.
We're 30 thousand light years from galactic central point,
we go round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions and billions
in this amazing and expanding universe.
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The Universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
in all of the directions it can whizz.
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know
A million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when your feeling very small and in-secure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth.
And prey that there's intelligent life, somewhere out in space,
'cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth.
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I have a particle around here somewhere that I measured to find its precise speed was very slightly faster than c.... I would show it to you as proof but I cant seem to find it anywhere! ;o)
That was proved to me years ago when I met my housemates girlfriend. She was positively festering with it. She radiated me with it so much of it that I now have a latent ability to detect dark energy within a 5m radius.
From the Micro$oft school of cosmology. Take something ( a cosmological model ) that barely works, find out there's a yet another problem with it, and patch it ( with blather about dark matter ) in the hope that it works. Then find out that by introducing the patch to fix one problem, you find another ( er... what exactly is dark matter? Anyone? Please? )
Hey, I rubbished Micro$oft and the whole of modern cosmology in one post. Cool.
Later, after astronomers found the universe to be expanding, Einstein called the cosmological constant his greatest blunder. But theorists have been taking a new look at it since 1998, when astronomers found evidence of a repulsive counterpart to gravity in studies of distant exploding stars called supernovae.
Even when he's making stuff up, he's still right... We just don't find out until 80 years later.
So the Earth's gravitons are pushing at me, and mine at the Earth, so we repel? It must be all the gravitons from space and the atmosphere pushing me down against the Earth then.
This only works for however long the LSD lasts.
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This is great news!
>The new findings support the theory that the >universe will expand forever
I was afraid that the universe would stop expanding and start collapsing and that would kill us all!
Sure they are.... You know...
(dark)E=(dark)m*c^2
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That's not quite right, it should be:
(dark)E = (dark)m * (dark)c^2
where (dark)c is the "speed of dark", and we all know the speed of dark is faster than the speed of light. Therefore, (dark)c > (light)c and therefore dark matter holds more (dark) energy than normal matter hold in (light) energy.
I've seen a few references to a theory of a final "big rip," in which everything (even atoms) are torn apart by the expansionistic force.
Damn! Just before the universe ends, we'll all look like Goatse. Wudda way to go.
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And how does (Dark)Helmet factor into this?
Nothing to see here; Move along.
No, honey. Dark matter is slimming.... Honest.
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So what you're saying is mean old Mr. Gravity always wins. Too bad I can't put some of that dark energy into my sagging body parts that Mr. Gravity is relentlessly pulling out of shape. Sigh.
provided new evidence supporting the existence of dark energy, the force
I think Lucas may have a case here...at least to try
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Okay, now you're just ASKING for it!
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