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Dark Matter Discovered
sebFlyte writes "Wired is reporting that scientists have come up to a solution as to where all the matter in the universe actually is. Experiments being done with Chandra, NASA's X-ray telescope have shown up a likely candidate for the solution of the dark matter problem. There are massive quantities of Baryons in a super-heated gas cloud several hundred million light years away."
There are massive quantities of Baryons in a super-heated gas gloud several hundred million light years away."
Which, IMHO, is a damn fine place for them to be, rather than here.
The absorption pattern, as detected by Chandra, is consistent with interference caused by carbon, neon, nitrogen and oxygen ions -- in other words, baryons.
It's really a neon sign on Frogstar World B announcing the construction of a restaurant to be constructed on this location in several billion years and reservations are welcome.
"Assuming that what we see is a standard portion of the universe, we extrapolated the data and derived the volume density (of baryons in all the clouds) -- and it's consistent with 50 percent," said astronomer Fabrizio Nicastro, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author of the study.
Later a two-headed, three-armed man entered and ate a piece of fairycake and destroyed their model.
Whereas baryons account for 4 percent of the total matter and energy in the universe, dark matter is thought to make up 23 percent. The remaining 73 percent of the so-called matter-energy budget consists of what scientists call "dark energy." This energy acts like an anti-gravitational force that, in theory, is causing the universe to expand rather than contract.
And here I thought it all existed somewhere along Lucas Valley Road and explained the Jar Jar character and Episodes I-III...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
And would this "superheated gas pocket" perchance reside in Nibbler's lower intestinal tract? ;D
I don't see anything??
Here's a picture.
I think the dark matter is in the mods brain.
"There are massive quantities of Baryons in a super-heated gas gloud"
Google wants to know if you mean "gas cloud".
Wired is reporting that scientists have come up to a solution as to where all the matter in the universe actually is.
WIRED also said that "Push is the next Big Thing."
I mean really now, Baryons, oh come on nasa. Try something new and exciting like, antiquantafusitrons.
Your mom's weight is the answer to Fermat's equatione e235b3f26a3a14acabf5b&PID=18&PHPSESSID=3e618ab1a0e e235b3f26a3a14acabf5b
http://yourmom.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=3e618ab1a0
"Baryons, along with mesons, belong to the family of particles known as hadrons, meaning they are composed of quarks. Baryons are fermions composed of three quarks, while mesons are bosons composed of a quark and an antiquark."
Wikipedia cleared that one up nicely!
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It was only a (dark) matter of (space) time.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
Its the hunters running away from the stench of Bloodnut the flatulent...
I have it on good authority that all the dark matter is in Iraq, and that's why we had to invade.
So they say they've found the missing matter, but nowhere in the article do they actually tell us where all the missing socks went. Sure sounds like a scam to me!
I case anybody's wondering what "informative" means...
http://www.answers.com/informative&r=67
I got nuthin.
> > In case anyone's wondering what a baryon is...
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon
> In case anyone's wondering what slashdot is...
> http://www.slashdot.org/
In case anyone's wondering why the hell am I wasting my time so pointlessly.... I have no life.
They reversed the anti-proton to tachyon ratio in the main deflector array after flooding it with a plasma burst diverted from the warp core and then polarising it by reinforcing the nucleon field.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
Wasn't Google looking to buy up all the Dark Matter, not too long ago? Sware I read it here...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
At least it's not "make the data fit the theory" matter, which is currently copyrighted by the Bush Administration.
Assuming that what we see is a standard portion of the universe
An astrophysicist, a physicist, and a mathematician are attending a conference in Scotland. During a break, they take a walk through some of the countryside, and come upon a black sheep.
"Aha," exclaims the astrophysicist. "I had no idea that all sheep in Scotland are black."
The physicist looks at her colleague in disbelief. "All sheep in Scotland are black? Are you nuts? We've only seen one sheep!"
The mathematician interrupts. "And only one side of that sheep."
I can see the project now: "Gloud: The GNU open source cloud."
Mythos : Logos
Doesn't the Enterprise have to clean this stuff off its hull every so often, it being a side effect of warp travel?
Jonathanjk.com
+/- 3 orders of magnitude is considered precise.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
You got nuthin because you didn't write your link right.
;)
Yup, noticed that. Though I think what you wanted to say was, "In case anybody's wondering what a hyperlink is..."
Turns out it was behind the sofa cushions all along.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Obviously that's where the bulk of all the Univere's matter is. Each pound of the stuff weighs 10,000 pounds.
I've got a friend over at NASA who gave me a preview of some of the pictures.
Pretty fascinating if you ask me.
http://www.masturbateforpeace.com/
At the bottom of the Wired story, there is a Google ad, "Buy Dark Matter on eBay".
I just wonder if they throw in free shipping.
Pete Carr Owner Chatmag.com