Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter 189
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.'"
Ok, fess up (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ok, fess up (Score:5, Funny)
This proves the existance of God! (Score:5, Funny)
It is a noodle like structure. FSM 1 ID 0
Transcript of Hubble Survey Team Findings (Score:5, Funny)
"Oh, there it is."
I'm still waiting for them to find all the missing socks.
Re:Dark Matter??? (Score:5, Funny)
looked through the rubble,
to find all the matter was gone.
Till 'tween galaxies bright,
to their delight,
they found the brayons
Missing socks... (Score:3, Funny)
The universe has a backbone? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ether (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ether (Score:2, Funny)
Isn't this the matter that strikes the shields at Warp speeds?
Re:Obligitory (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dark Matter??? (Score:3, Funny)
Are those like crayons for donkeys?
Douglas Adams's theory of missing matter (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Universe Half Empty/Half Full? (Score:2, Funny)
Gene Ray was right after all! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dark Matter??? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ether (Score:3, Funny)
Only if you're Ænglish.