Computer Model Points To the Missing Matter

eldavojohn writes "There exists a little-known problem of missing regular matter that has perhaps been overshadowed by the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Computer models show that there should be about 40% more regular matter than we see... so where is it? From the article: 'The study indicated a significant portion of the gas is in the filaments — which connect galaxy clusters — hidden from direct observation in enormous gas clouds in intergalactic space known as the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium, or WHIM, said CU-Boulder Professor Jack Burns... The team performed one of the largest cosmological supercomputer simulations ever, cramming 2.5 percent of the visible universe inside a computer to model a region more than 1.5 billion light-years across.' This hypothesis will be investigated and hopefully proved/disproved when telescopes are completed in Chile and the Antarctic. The paper will be up for review in this week's edition of the the Astrophysical Journal."

Comments

Re:What a waste of money

[Leet0]

aaaaaaaaah... hahahahaha! I needed that. HiLLaRY '08! Y? Cuz she doesn't suck.. get it? get it?

And now to say on topic.. Actually the missing matter, just doesn't matter. Because we're looking back in time. It's here now, duh

2.5% of the visible universe?

[ElizabethGreene]

Only 2.5% of the visible universe? Seven of nine could do this in the turbolift on the way back to the astrometrics lab and still have time for solitaire. (I am a Star Trek Voyager fan. ....or more accurately, THE voyager fan.)