posted by eldavojohn:
"Consider this fact: In the air we breathe, each cubic centimeter contains roughly 5 X 1019 atoms. In contrast, the intergalactic medium has a density of only 10-6 particles per cubic centimeter"
Probably a stupid question. For this amount of inter-galactic stuff, should there not be a significant amount of "scattering" of all radiation ? Has or can this scattering effect been measured ?
Also, the linked article (www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2624) said that this stuff - "confined into filaments means that a very strong gravitational field must be pulling it into place. According to theory, only dark matter can do the trick." Why can only "dark" matter be the cause ?
I shall cast my shame unto the waters. I still do not understand "dark" matter. Would one of you good physical science people do some explainin' to a simple-minded redneck ?!?
This Is Taco's site, so he gets to post whatever spins his prop.
To the "more experienced" sd crowd: humor the Cdr Taco, he is still young, still rebelling from his "tramatic" middle class childhood, and still recovering from having to perform manual labor. See http://cmdrtaco.net/ for his heart-wrenching story.
After the passage of years, the Taco may realize that agendized extremists differ only by the vehicle of their extremism (e.g., religious fundies, socialist unionists); and that all extremists want is to gain control and profit.
Now to address the Taco post. Moore is another blow-hard idiot that has mastered the Half-truth. Moore is the same class of vermin as Rush Limbaugh.
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posted by eldavojohn:
"Consider this fact: In the air we breathe, each cubic centimeter contains roughly 5 X 1019 atoms. In contrast, the intergalactic medium has a density of only 10-6 particles per cubic centimeter"
Probably a stupid question. For this amount of inter-galactic stuff, should there not be a significant amount of "scattering" of all
radiation ? Has or can this scattering effect been measured ?
Also, the linked article (www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2624) said that this stuff - "confined into filaments means that a very strong gravitational field must be pulling it into place. According to theory, only dark matter can do the trick." Why can only "dark" matter be the cause ?
I shall cast my shame unto the waters. I still do not understand "dark" matter. Would one of you good physical science people do some explainin' to a simple-minded redneck ?!?
This will take my karma from neutral to negative.
This Is Taco's site, so he gets to post whatever spins his prop.
To the "more experienced" sd crowd: humor the Cdr Taco, he is still young, still rebelling from his "tramatic" middle class childhood, and still recovering from having to perform manual labor. See http://cmdrtaco.net/ for his heart-wrenching story.
After the passage of years, the Taco may realize that agendized extremists differ only by the vehicle of their extremism (e.g., religious fundies, socialist unionists); and that all extremists want is to gain control and profit.
Now to address the Taco post. Moore is another blow-hard idiot that has mastered the Half-truth. Moore is the same class of vermin as Rush Limbaugh.