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Giant Sheets Of Dark Matter Detected
Wandering Wombat writes "The largest structures in the universe have been, if not directly found, then at least detected and pounced upon by scientists. 'The most colossal structures in the universe have been detected by astronomers who tuned into how the structures subtly bend galactic light. The newfound filaments and sheets of dark matter form gigantic features stretching across more than 270 million light-years of space — three times larger than any other known structure and 2,000 times the size of our own galaxy. Because the dark matter, by definition, is invisible to telescopes, the only way to detect it on such grand scales is by surveying huge numbers of distant galaxies and working out how their images, as seen from telescopes, are being weakly tweaked and distorted by any dark matter structures in intervening space.' By figuring how to spot the gigantic masses of dark matter, hopefully we can get a better understanding of it and find smaller and smaller structures."
is it 1x4x9?
Given that > 90% of the stuff out there is not even made of the same stuff like us - in the great scheme of things we are: ;) )
a) Interesting
b) Not interesting
c) Both (don't you love quantum superpositions
Take that MOND!
Soon all your adherents will have to move to studying a crazy theory that can't disproven, like String Theory!
so the scientists are lol cats? Oh, hai drk mater! i pownse on u!
So what's the thread count on these sheets? And no weaving multiple superstrings at a time to inflate the number please...
WTF? Were the scientists wearing kitten costumes?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Scientists never get invited to pool parties... you're just making them feel bad now.
Makes a lot of sense, though.
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
We r in ur universe, messin with ur drk mattr sheetz.
'Loose' is when your pants are three sizes too big. 'Lose' is when you misuse 'loose'.
I typically consider myself Interesting, but I never really know for sure until mod points are assigned. Occasionally, I'm Funny, Insightful, Informative, or Overrated... Sometimes all at the same time!
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Imagine a Beowulf...
And there's good reason. I grew up in Los Alamos, NM, and the best part about doing our swimming merit badges at the county pool was having the dad of one of the scouts -- a LANL physicist -- come early to pick up his son. He'd have all of us at the shallow end of the pool, and he'd be standing there holding a pendulum. Based on the pendulum's swing, he'd either yell "jump in!" and we'd all jump in simultaneously, or "get out" and we'd all get out simultaneously. After doing this for four or five minutes, the entire pool was sloshing back and forth, spilling over onto the deck on each end, getting everyone's towels wet if they weren't on the bleachers.
We thought it was awesome. The lifeguards didn't.
Sam! If you will let me be,
I will try them.
You will see.
For proper Slashdot credit, transform your analogy so it involves a car.
You have 10 minutes.
Holly: Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Rimmer: But five of them? Five massively collapsed stars, millions of miles across. How could you miss them?
Holly: It's typical, isn't it? You wait three million years with nothing, then five come along all at once.
No, you are not. Damn that's the dumbest thing I've read on Slashdot in a while. You aren't a physicist, okay? Don't pretend like you have any idea what you're talking about. Don't assume that you know more than Ph.D.s who've been studying this shit for decades. They've seen the effects in all directions around us, you saying there's brown dwarfs hiding out in all directions? Just shut up, you're making Slashdot a stupider place with your very presence.
Ok, so you got this car, see, and it's flying around the moon... what? You people don't have flying cars yet?
Well sorry guys, you're just too primitive to understand REAL physics. Come back when you figure out where you're going to keep all the necessary penguins.
What? You don't even know about the penguins? Shocking! You'll never reach lightspeed the way you're going.
-Al Facentuari
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
My god. We're all just a game of Spore!
I've found out where all my black ballpoints have gone to.
You know what they say about opinions. They're all fabulous!
As the venerable sage, Grover, taught us all so long ago... "Near!" *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* "Far!" *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* "Near!" *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* ...
It all depends on one's perspective.
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