scientists find half the universe's missing matter

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https://www.newscientist.com/articl...s-missing-matter-has-just-been-finally-found/

The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe – protons, neutrons and electrons – unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space.

You have probably heard about the hunt for dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to permeate the universe, the effects of which we can see through its gravitational pull. But our models of the universe also say there should be about twice as much ordinary matter out there, compared with what we have observed so far.

Two separate teams found the missing matter – made of particles called baryons rather than dark matter – linking galaxies together through filaments of hot, diffuse gas.

“The missing baryon problem is solved,” says Hideki Tanimura at the Institute of Space Astrophysics in Orsay, France, leader of one of the groups. The other team was led by Anna de Graaff at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Because the gas is so tenuous and not quite hot enough for X-ray telescopes to pick up, nobody had been able to see it before.

“There’s no sweet spot – no sweet instrument that we’ve invented yet that can directly observe this gas,” says Richard Ellis at University College London. “It’s been purely speculation until now.”

So the two groups had to find another way to definitively show that these threads of gas are really there.

Both teams took advantage of a phenomenon called the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect that occurs when light left over from the big bang passes through hot gas. As the light travels, some of it scatters off the electrons in the gas, leaving a dim patch in the cosmic microwave background – our snapshot of the remnants from the birth of the cosmos.

Good news, everybody! Between this and last week's article that scientists claim to have proven that we're not in a simulation of reality, it looks like we can finally relax and enjoy knowing that we're real. /professorfarnsworth
 
I love the fuddling muggling guff these people come out with trying to explain reality and our existence with numbers and measurements .. its funny as fuck.
 
I bet the other half is in my couch. I find so much shit in there. And every time I lose my keys I end up finding them in my couch.

Someone tell Science to call me.
 
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Half of it can be explained here on sherdog. Land of unknown geniuses.
 
For those who understood the issue and gave a shit about our theoretical models being accurate, it is exciting news.

That's the problem it's theoretical.. and its only accurate based on their own axioms..
 
They can find missing matter, but they can't find Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 or Jimmy Hoffa?

Fucking misplaced priorities if you ask me.
 
I love the fuddling muggling guff these people come out with trying to explain reality and our existence with numbers and measurements .. its funny as fuck.
So... You wouldn't use numbers and measurements to quantify the matter in the observable universe?

What would you say? "There is a beautiful amount of matter." "The quantity of matter is merely what we perceive it to be."

You must be fun at work.
Your boss: how many gallons of oil did you put in the fryer?
You: "Gallons" is a human construct man! I will not judge the deep fryer oil by humans arbitrary concepts of numbers and volume!
 
thought it was in Kim Kardashian's ass.
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thought it was in Kim Kardashian's ass.
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Seriously girls do not seem to understand that the fat ass is supposed to come with thick legs to match. It's not supposed to be a balloon on a stick.
 
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Seriously girls do not seem to understand that the fat ass is supposed to come through thick legs to match. It's not supposed to be a balloon on a stick.

I don't want to see thick legs or fat asses.
 
I love the fuddling muggling guff these people come out with trying to explain reality and our existence with numbers and measurements .. its funny as fuck.
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you're right, shit is so funny and dumb. it was already explained to us by ancient goat herders and a magic book!
 
Pretty neat.

The news that we are "not in the matrix" seems flawed in that, upon reading articles about the news, it seems that they've ruled out the possibility that the physics of our universe is impossible to map and simulate on any computer that we have or have conceived currently. I always thought that it was more of a "subreality" like how there's a physics engine it our video games but is less complete and only simulates our own.
 
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