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Piece of Missing Cosmic Matter Found
Space.com on Yahoo ^ | 5/12/08 | Andrea Thompson

Posted on 05/12/2008 7:05:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 05/12/2008 7:05:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Cool!


2 posted on 05/12/2008 7:10:45 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Piece of Missing Cosmic Matter Found

I wonder what the guy at the lost and found at Grand Central would do if you walked up to the counter and asked if anyone had turned in your missing cosmic matter?

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How did they even know it was missing?

3 posted on 05/12/2008 7:12:34 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The sick list is varied, though most for now are victims of the housing crash: Linens 'n Things, ($6)
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To: NormsRevenge

I wonder if they will ever find the missing matter inside the liberal brain?


4 posted on 05/12/2008 7:20:31 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: the invisib1e hand
How did they even know it was missing?

Because there it was- gone!

5 posted on 05/12/2008 7:22:07 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)
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To: NormsRevenge
Now that they've solved the mystery of the missing baryonic matter, maybe they could solve the mystery of the missing sox.
6 posted on 05/12/2008 7:27:30 PM PDT by DManA
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To: NormsRevenge

“Engaging in something like cosmic accounting...”

Are these Government workers? ;)


7 posted on 05/12/2008 7:29:33 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/main.html


8 posted on 05/12/2008 7:36:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline—1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: DManA

Hope they find the missing Bill and Hillary files.


9 posted on 05/12/2008 7:37:13 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: NormsRevenge
It is thought that these hot intergalactic hazes were created from material that did not fall into galaxies when they first formed more than 13 billion years ago.

Stupid question time.

Why haven't these hot gases cooled off in the last few billion years, if they're in intergalactic space far from energy sources?

10 posted on 05/12/2008 7:37:40 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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A bridge of hot gas is connecting two clusters of galaxies. Composite optical and X-ray image of the cluster pair Abell 222 and Abell 223.

Image Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/ EPIC/ ESO (J. Dietrich)/ SRON (N. Werner)/ MPE (A. Finoguenov)


11 posted on 05/12/2008 7:40:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline—1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge
A similar baryonic haze, 150 times hotter than the sun's surface, was indirectly detected surrounding the Milky Way and connecting about three dozen other galaxies known collectively as the Local Group in 2003 by astronomers at Harvard and Ohio State Universities.

Sooooooo what the hell is keeping the old (13 billion years) baryonic haze perking at 150 times hotter than the sun's surface all this time?

12 posted on 05/12/2008 7:42:53 PM PDT by The Cajun
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XMM-Newton discovers part of missing matter in the universe
European Space Agency
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMQLPZXUFF_index_0.html


13 posted on 05/12/2008 7:45:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline—1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: DManA
....maybe they could solve the mystery of the missing sox.

They're behind the sofa. ;-)

14 posted on 05/12/2008 7:52:34 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: Eye On The Left

Well...sheesh...then they should be able to find Osama bin Laden...right?


15 posted on 05/12/2008 7:53:02 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Liberals learning curves are pretty flat,)
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To: Sherman Logan; NormsRevenge
The missing part of this matter was thought to be a hot, ultra-thin gas haze of very low density between larger structures. Its hellacious temperature means that it only emits far-ultraviolet and X-ray radiation.

A similar baryonic haze, 150 times hotter than the sun's surface, was indirectly detected surrounding the Milky Way

Puzzling

What keeps this ultra-thin gas haze of very low density so hot for 13 billion years?

One would think that only fusion could do this. But Physics as I understand it would require enormous pressures to sustain fusion reaction. Such pressures do not exist in the vacuum of space.

There must be physics at work here that we do not understand. Once we do I think our energy crisis is over.

16 posted on 05/12/2008 7:53:24 PM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

If that were the case the sofa would be 2 feet into the room by now. But thanks for the suggestion ggg.


17 posted on 05/12/2008 7:55:50 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Pontiac
Apparently it is absorbing x-rays and re-emitting them as black body radiation. The temperature is based on the wavelenth.
I would think that only the missing matter in galactic halos are hot, and the "fillaments" between galaxies cooler. According to the simulations its like a big cobweb, with galaxies forming at the intersections.

18 posted on 05/12/2008 8:10:03 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: NormsRevenge
"Now we are starting to see the connecting wires of the immense cosmic spider web," ...

That can only mean that....somewhere...there's a giant inter-galactic sized SPIDER!!!!

It also means that ....somewhere... there's giant inter-galactic sized BUGS!!!

DOUBLE

19 posted on 05/12/2008 8:13:02 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: DManA; Allegra
...maybe they could solve the mystery of the missing sox.

Allegra is working around the clock on that!

20 posted on 05/12/2008 8:19:32 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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