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Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter
esocid sends along the news that scientists believe they have found about half the missing matter in the universe. The matter we can see is only about 1/8 of the total baryonic matter believed to exist (and only 1/200 the mass-energy of the visible universe). This missing matter is not to be confused with "dark matter," which is thought to be non-baryonic. The missing stuff has been found in the intergalactic medium that extends essentially throughout all of space, from just outside our galaxy to the most distant regions of space. "'We think we are seeing the strands of a web-like structure that forms the backbone of the universe,' Mike Shull of the University of Colorado explained. 'What we are confirming in detail is that intergalactic space, which intuitively might seem to be empty, is in fact the reservoir for most of the normal, baryonic matter in the universe.'"
Come on, which one of you took it?
It is a noodle like structure. FSM 1 ID 0
"Oh, there it is."
I'm still waiting for them to find all the missing socks.
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!
old mother Hubble,
looked through the rubble,
to find all the matter was gone.
Till 'tween galaxies bright,
to their delight,
they found the brayons
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
find the missing socks, and you've found God. They're all in Heaven, you get them back when you die. All the Bic lighters, too.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Damn and all this time I thought it was an invertebrate.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
The ods would do better if they remembered to take their eds every orning.
Off course!
Isn't this the matter that strikes the shields at Warp speeds?
No, but it was in the last place they looked.
"brayons"?
Are those like crayons for donkeys?
For a long period of time there was much speculation and controversy about where the so-called "missing matter" of the Universe had got to. All over the Galaxy the science departments of all the major universities were acquiring more and more elaborate equipment to probe and search the hearts of distant galaxies, and then the very centre and the very edges of the whole Universe, but when eventually it was tracked down it turned out in fact to be all the stuff which the equipment had been packed in.
Is your universe half empty or half full?
No—it can't be true! The Hubble has managed to photograph the Time Cube! The joke really is on us...
I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
it's spelled braillons, and only blind telescopes can detect them.
Only if you're Ænglish.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.