Dark Matter Discovered 386
sebFlyte writes "Wired is reporting that scientists have come up to a solution as to where all the matter in the universe actually is. Experiments being done with Chandra, NASA's X-ray telescope have shown up a likely candidate for the solution of the dark matter problem. There are massive quantities of Baryons in a super-heated gas cloud several hundred million light years away."
Fascinating (Score:5, Funny)
There are massive quantities of Baryons in a super-heated gas gloud several hundred million light years away."
Which, IMHO, is a damn fine place for them to be, rather than here.
The absorption pattern, as detected by Chandra, is consistent with interference caused by carbon, neon, nitrogen and oxygen ions -- in other words, baryons.
It's really a neon sign on Frogstar World B announcing the construction of a restaurant to be constructed on this location in several billion years and reservations are welcome.
"Assuming that what we see is a standard portion of the universe, we extrapolated the data and derived the volume density (of baryons in all the clouds) -- and it's consistent with 50 percent," said astronomer Fabrizio Nicastro, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author of the study.
Later a two-headed, three-armed man entered and ate a piece of fairycake and destroyed their model.
Whereas baryons account for 4 percent of the total matter and energy in the universe, dark matter is thought to make up 23 percent. The remaining 73 percent of the so-called matter-energy budget consists of what scientists call "dark energy." This energy acts like an anti-gravitational force that, in theory, is causing the universe to expand rather than contract.
And here I thought it all existed somewhere along Lucas Valley Road and explained the Jar Jar character and Episodes I-III...
Nibbler? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
Picture (Score:5, Funny)
Mmmm super heated gas gloud (Score:1, Funny)
Gloud (Score:3, Funny)
Google wants to know if you mean "gas cloud".
If WIRED says it, it must be true! (Score:5, Funny)
WIRED also said that "Push is the next Big Thing."
But now where... (Score:2, Funny)
I mean really now, Baryons, oh come on nasa. Try something new and exciting like, antiquantafusitrons.
Just killed a your mom joke (Score:1, Funny)
http://yourmom.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=3e618ab1a0
Cleared up nicely... (Score:4, Funny)
Wikipedia cleared that one up nicely!
I knew they’d eventually find it (Score:2, Funny)
Nope... (Score:2, Funny)
That's strange.... (Score:3, Funny)
So they say they've found the missing matter... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Baryons (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.answers.com/informative&r=67
I got nuthin.
In case.... (Score:5, Funny)
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon [wikipedia.org]
> In case anyone's wondering what slashdot is...
> http://www.slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org]
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How they found it (Score:5, Funny)
Google? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wrong Name (Score:1, Funny)
Assuming... (Score:5, Funny)
An astrophysicist, a physicist, and a mathematician are attending a conference in Scotland. During a break, they take a walk through some of the countryside, and come upon a black sheep.
"Aha," exclaims the astrophysicist. "I had no idea that all sheep in Scotland are black."
The physicist looks at her colleague in disbelief. "All sheep in Scotland are black? Are you nuts? We've only seen one sheep!"
The mathematician interrupts. "And only one side of that sheep."
Glouds (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Baryons (Score:3, Funny)
This is astrophysics, folks (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Baryons (Score:5, Funny)
Yup, noticed that. Though I think what you wanted to say was, "In case anybody's wondering what a hyperlink [answers.com] is..."
Who knew... (Score:5, Funny)
Duh... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Glouds (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So they say they've found the missing matter... (Score:3, Funny)
As my friend Paul Z. said, "Socks are the larval form of hangers."
Re:Fascinating (Score:4, Funny)
It's really a neon sign on Frogstar World B announcing the construction of a restaurant to be constructed on this location in several billion years and reservations are welcome.
Such a sign would not make any sense.
Obviously the restaurant willon forewhen constructed already.
Exclusive Photos (Score:3, Funny)
Pretty fascinating if you ask me.
Re:So they say they've found the missing matter... (Score:3, Funny)
Buy white socks.
You all missed the Google ad (Score:3, Funny)
I just wonder if they throw in free shipping.
Re:Picture (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Assuming... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fascinating (Score:5, Funny)
The metalingual speaker is conceptually at the forewhen temporal point. His subjunctive "now" is forewhen. In this referrence frame the restaurant clearly will be a retrospective actuality (willan), rather than will be a prospective actualization (willon).
The fact that you needed end the sentence with an the explicit temporal adverb 'already' is a huge tipoff, an awkward construction to bend a prospective tense onto a retrospective object. Changing the tense to willan forwhen makes that explicit temporal adverb clearly redundant. Fixing the tense and dropping the explicit temporal adverb leave the much cleaner sentence:
Obviously the restaurant willan forewhen constructed.
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Dark Matter (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Fascinating (Score:3, Funny)
Holy shit.
A grammar nazi for an entirely made up set of grammar, meant to cover a situation that can't exist, presented in fictional comedy novels.
That's AWESOME!!
Doug