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Galaxies Floating on a Dark Matter Stream
Darkman, Walkin Dude writes "A team in Switzerland has discovered that most of the small satellite galaxies around the Milky Way's near-twin, Andromeda, are lined up in a single plane that slices through Andromeda's spiral disc. Using images from the Hubble space telescope, soon to be decommissioned, the researchers found that 9 of the 14 of Andromeda's satellites lay on a relatively narrow plane bisecting Andromeda. From the article: 'The team believes the plane could have formed in several ways. In one scenario, the galaxies may have fallen towards Andromeda along an invisible filament of dark matter. Computer simulations show these filaments can form a cosmic web along which galaxies flow.'"
Does dark matter hold our universe together in a web?
I think it's more like invisible strands of spaghetti.
This guy's the limit!
How the fuck did you write such a thorough and cogent response as a FIRST POST nonetheless??!?!?!
In another scenario, the Intelligent Designer put them on that specific plane just to see how long it took before somebody noticed and claimed that it must be Dark Matter.
so, in a sense, we are all touched by His Noodly Appendage?
and did the little girls who lacked daisies seem very morose...
In one scenario, the galaxies may have fallen towards Andromeda along an invisible filament of dark matter.
In another scenario, the Flying Spaghetti Monster might have used His Noodly Appendage to intelligently design it that way. Scientists speculate the arrangement makes it easier for Him to make a bank shot on the 9-ball galaxy.
Study everything, you'll find something you can use - Jason Bourne
Am I the only one who thinks this headline sounds like something some scientist completely pulled out of his ass? "Yeah...so you know dark matter? All the planets are, like, floating on it. And I am TOTALLY stoned...."
"Computer simulations show..." is another way of saying "computer programmers imagine..."
[sigh] No, it's not.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Now, all we need to do is prove it's affecting evolution, and we've proven that His Noodleyness exists.
Or is that effecting evolution?
By the touch of His Noodly Appendage, this sentence could potentially use either affecting or effecting correctly! It truly is a miracle!
Grammar and Spelling Nazis tremble in the face of His Noodily Might!
Galaxies Floating on a Dark Matter Stream
So, the old lady was right... it's turtles all the way down.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
AP - Scientists at the prestigious CERN institute in Switzerland announced late Friday that the so-called 'dark matter', which makes up 90% of the universe, is actually bullshit.
"These findings come as a surprise," stated Dr. Weissmann, lead scientist at the institute. "Before today, we thought dark matter might be, say, an agglomeration of exotic subatomic particles, like muons or 'strange' quarks, signifying a problem with the equations governing space-time. Instead, all that turns out to be bullshit."
Other hypotheses included Cheez-puffs and intelligent end-users. But the conclusive evidence for the new Bullshit Theory of Matter came from the Hubble space telescope, which since 1995 has been sending back data that, according to scientists, is "complete and utter bull."
"Over and over we ran through the equations, and each time we came up with the same answer: This is crap," affirmed Weismann. "It's satisfying, in a way, to be able to say that about your life's work."
-C.
- undoware.ca
> Matter = Stuff Anti-Matter = Stuff that blows stuff up Dark Matter = The stuff that isn't there, that we keep bumping into
To paraphrase the old saw about virtual memory:
If you can see it and it's there, it's matter.
If you can see it and it's not there, it's a virtual particle.
If you can't see it and it's there, it's dark matter.
If you can't see it and it's not there, it's dark energy.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade