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Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble?
Khemisty writes "Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly void of matter. Scientists say this condition could account for the apparent acceleration of the universe's expansion, for which dark energy currently is the leading explanation.
Until now, there has been no good way to choose between dark energy or the void explanation, but a new study outlines a potential test of the bubble scenario.
If we were in an unusually sparse area of the universe, then things could look farther away than they really are and there would be no need to rely on dark energy as an explanation for certain astronomical observations.
'If we lived in a very large under-density, then the space-time itself wouldn't be accelerating,' said researcher Timothy Clifton of Oxford University in England. 'It would just be that the observations, if interpreted in the usual way, would look like they were.'"
Like, cosmic, man.
Man you ain't kidding. Take a look at the Capitol Hill region of space. That is one ultra dense region of hot air, that isn't just warping space-time this is a region of space where the wildest of idea's are warped into reality.
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Dude, don't worry God will just be there with a 700 quadrillion ton slab of dark matter to bail... I mean patch the hole right up.
I got a catholic block.
Capitol Hill region of space. That is one ultra dense region of hot air
Actually, that particular region of the universe consists of dark matter. It's an enormous pile of it, brown in color, steaming and giving off fetid odors that would knock a buzzard off a shit-wagon*. The region is full of it and amazingly, endless numbers of primitive little life-forms actually burrow themselves into it and suck nutrition from it.
* We miss you, George.
Always thought it was upper management that lived in a bubble.
It's globules all the way down!
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Why does the first thing that comes to mind after reading just this headline, make me think of that one episode on Star Trek Voyager
Wow, our minds just totally work differently. I thought of J-Lo's ass.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
I've always preferred the misanthropic principle, myself. "We see the universe the way we do because people are idiots."
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
I don't know, but it'll probably cost a lot more than 700 billion dollars to bail the universe out.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."