Posted on 06/22/2010 3:48:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
British scientists have claimed that the method used to calculate the make-up of the universe may be wrong.
The universe as we know it -- formed of recognisable components such as planets, stars, asteroids and gas -- accounts for just four per cent of the cosmos, according to the decades old Standard Model.
The rest is thought to be made up of mysterious dark matter and dark energy. This permeates space and powers the expansion of the universe.
But physicists at Durham University now claim the calculations on which the Standard Model is based could be fatally flawed.
This raises the possibility that the "dark side" of the cosmos does not exist, which in turn could mean that the universe is expanding less quickly than previously thought...
A new analysis of measurements taken by NASA of Big Bang heat radiation in 2001 showed that the heat waves may be far smaller than previously thought.
When the measurements were first taken in 2001 the size of the ripples in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation led scientists to conclude that the cosmos is made up of four percent "normal" matter, 22 percent "dark" or invisible matter and 74 percent "dark" energy.
But scientists now claim that the waves of radiation which were previously measured at about twice the size of the full moon may in fact be less than half that size.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
What is your point or your agenda there JCB, no one knows how hold the Earth is.
I believe they do..approx 4.6 billion years, according to carbon dating, I believe.
“But scientists now claim that the waves of radiation which were previously measured at about twice the size of the full moon may in fact be less than half that size.”
Does this mean that instead of twice the size of the full moon, it is less than the size of the full moon, or less than half the size of the moon?
If it is the former, that would still seem to only indicate that we can account for 8% of the universe, instead of 4%.
All we can be sure of is, the speed of light is a little less than the speed of dark, because when the lights come on, dark is never seen leaving the room.
/bingo
It’s not RC dating, it’s Uranium-series dating that is used.
As Steve Stills once sang, nobody’s right when everybody’s wrong.
As Manfred Man used to sing, There she was just a-walkin’ down the street, singin’ “Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do”
This is not implied by a Riemannian ( i.e. curved ) time-space continuum. It can be thought of as "all that there is" just as well as a traditional "flat" time-space continuum.
Conversely, a flat 3-space can be thought of as a slice of a 4-space, and in fact this was a very popular notion in Victorian times as a physical justification of the "spirit world", which shared a universal time measure with familiar 3-space.
“Shanghai Lil never used the pill, she claimed that it wasn’t natural” — Rod Stewart
Wow; pretty cool. I’m a rank outsider when it comes to physics more complicated than falling off a log (I know that one’s due to gravity!), but I’ve always had a sneaking feeling that dark matter and dark energy were just a little too much like the old Aether to really sit well with a modern theory of the universe. Perhaps now we’ll either see that we’ve just re-invented Aether 2.0, or else we’ll get the “dark” components on a more supportable foundation.
Thanks for posting!
I’ll try to work on that as soon as I’m home. Thanks for the explanation!
You sure it's not just an anomaly? /Carlo Rubbia pun>
Cheers!
Redshift measurements may be right some or even most of the time, but they sure aren't right all of the time. Arp has proved that (IMHO) a number of times despite being ridiculed by his so called learned peers.
Basic questions about his observations need to be answered instead of just ignoring them and whistling past the graveyard.
/bingo
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