Simulating the Universe with a zBox

An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at the University of Zurich predict that our galaxy is filled with a quadrillion clouds of dark matter with the mass of the Earth and size of the solar system. The results in this weeks journal Nature, also covered in Astronomy magazine, were made using a six month calculation on hundreds of processors of a self-built supercomputer, the zBox. This novel machine is a high density cube of processors cooled by a central airflow system. I like the initial back of an envelope design. Apparently, one of these ghostly dark matter haloes passes through the solar system every few thousand years leaving a trail of high energy gamma ray photons."

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Re:This is really about cracks in Big Bang theory

[Heoko]

Yes, it will.

And Humans will finally come out of the dark ages once the idea is "cracked". If people still quarrel about something that is PROVEN wrong or just plain stupid:

Like the age of the Sphynx, the existance of Dark Matter. And you know "Merlin was one magical mofo, but those God Damn Native American Shamen's, they were just like Charls Manson,Savage and they used LSD and crap."

Every time I look at history of scientific discovery, I allways see the Roman based cultures allways bash the people with their Ideals when they think everything "has been solved" and you cant do shit or we will kill you.

now their is a lot less killing. But it still happens. You can just drown out the people yelling, screaming in your face that history and theory's are not allways right.

Grow up people, we are not ominecient beings. If there is a discrepency lets not say

"Wait there is something INVISIBLE, and we cannot detect it, and its EVERYWHERE, so we are not wrong!"

I heard that in third grade while playing with my brothers, I wish I could kill this idea where it stands. But hell it makes us scientists alot of freaking cash!