A Darkness In the Sky
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95% of the Universe is missing. Astronomers don't yet know what the mysterious dark energy (repulsive and everywhere) (70%) and dark matter (attractive and in halos around galaxies), are yet.
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Work begins on world's deepest underground lab - Yahoo! NewsFar below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings — a place uniquely suited to scientists' quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter. Workers began construction Monday ...
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Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into CrisisAs modern cosmologists rely more and more on the ominous “dark matter” to explain otherwise inexplicable observations, much effort has gone into the detection of this mysterious substance in the last two decades, yet no direct proof could be found that it actually exists. Even if it does exist, ...
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Hubble telescope poised for grand cosmic finale - msnbc.comIts exquisite images have graced the pages of astronomy books and calendars all over the world and provided astronomers with invaluable information on the mysteries of the universe. Now, after 19 years orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth's surface, the Hubble Space Telescope is getting its ...
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Dark matter 'highway' funnels gas into galactic pileup - space - 04 May 2009 - New ScientistThe first tantalising signs of gas within a filament of dark matter have been glimpsed at the site of a cataclysmic collision between galaxy clusters. If future observations confirm the preliminary detection, it would provide an important test of computer simulations that show how large-scale ...
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Does Dark Energy Really Exist?: Scientific AmericanKey Concepts The universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate, implying the existence of a strange new form of energy dark energy. The problem: no one is sure what dark energy is. Cosmologists may not actually need to invoke exotic forms of energy. If we live in an ...
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Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into CrisisThe real problem here with the neo-Newtonian approach is that no clear replacement theory is available. It's one thing to say we live in a non-Newtonian (really non-Einsteinian) cosmos based on a list of anomalies, it's a whole other issue to provide an alternative that keeps the know effects ...James Choate added 2 months ago
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1Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into CrisisWhen a theoretical construct is highly explanatory and predictive (often including of a multitude of actual test results) in most of its elements, scientists are (probably) rightly predisposed to attempt to preserve it from "outliers" / "fringe elements" that it can so far not well explain or ...JDP added 5 months ago
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91Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into CrisisI've been wondering the same thing for about 10 years - being a non-scientist (I work in IT), I'm sometimes surprised by the level or doctrine or dogma that seems to surround many scientific approaches - even when the available evidence doesn't seem to support it. What is obvious (to me ...Stephen Lahanas added 5 months ago
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Cosmic Microwave BackgroundLooked like a nice link, until the creationist stuff. CMB is slightly different to inflation big bang variants suggest. Therefore god made the universe 6000 ago, NOT.badams67 added 18 months ago
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