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Missing Light Crisis: 'Something is Amiss in the Universe'
IBTimes ^ | 10 Jul 2014 | Hannah Osborne

Posted on 07/10/2014 6:57:55 AM PDT by shove_it

There is a "missing light crisis" taking place in the universe with a huge deficit on what there should be and what there actually is, astronomers have said.

In a statement, experts from the Carnegie Institution for Science said "something is amiss in the universe" with 80% of the light missing.

Lead author of the study Juna Kollmeier said: "It's as if you're in a big, brightly-lit room, but you look around and see only a few 40-watt lightbulbs. Where is all that light coming from? It's missing from our census."

Published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists found that the light from galaxies and quasars is not enough to explain observations of intergalactic hydrogen, with a difference of 400%.

Empty space between galaxies are bridged by tendrils of hydrogen and helium that act as a "light metre".

The scientists discovered that when looking at galaxies billions of light years away in the early universe, the amount of light present appears to add up. However, in more localised parts of the universe, the calculations fail massively...

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: darkenergy; darkforce; darkmatter; haltonarp; stringtheory
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To: Maceman

Thanks for the explanation I was totally confused.


21 posted on 07/10/2014 7:20:27 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: MrB

*** It’s more accurately described as

“American lifestyle caused global warming”.

Because that’s what they’re really after. ***

Yes. Clarity. The “greenies” will never say it, but that is the target. Most of us know that.

Green is the new Red.


22 posted on 07/10/2014 7:21:34 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: brownsfan

Lefties, inherently Satan’s minions, HATE having clear definitions.

Shining the light of truth on them pretty much automatically defeats them.

I had a handle on an open message board of “ExposeTheLeft” and that moniker drove them NUTS.


23 posted on 07/10/2014 7:24:39 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: camle

24 posted on 07/10/2014 7:41:01 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: shove_it

It was missing when I got here. Honest.


25 posted on 07/10/2014 7:42:48 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: shove_it

Tiny Microscopic Black holes are eating it up...


26 posted on 07/10/2014 8:30:34 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: wally_bert

[ He rebooted the universe at least once.

Looking forward to the new one. ]

Last time it was running MS Vista.....

Lots of crashes and lots of Galaxies beibng eaten up by Black holes and spatial anomolies...

We are running on Windows 7 now, but MS is gonna pull support soon, prepare for a reboot...


27 posted on 07/10/2014 8:33:03 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: shove_it

It’s dark light!


28 posted on 07/10/2014 8:36:29 AM PDT by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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To: camle
Neal Katz, also a co-author of the paper, added: "The most exciting possibility is that the missing photons are coming from some exotic new source, not galaxies or quasars at all."

I Blame Janeway...

She causes anomolies...

Usuallly because she searches the Delta Quadrant for coffee instead of Colombia...

29 posted on 07/10/2014 8:41:07 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Maceman
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of the world. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it."

John 1:1-5 NIV

30 posted on 07/10/2014 8:42:47 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: djf

That makes as much sense as just about everything else going on now.


31 posted on 07/10/2014 8:42:51 AM PDT by shove_it (My real nickname is Otter)
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To: shove_it

Matthew 24 is exciting and dreadful. However, Revelation 8:12

“And the fourth angel sounded, and third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were smitten, so that third of them might be darkened and the day might not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way.”

Always wondered how that was going to happen. Thought it was pollution from the first three angels. Lots of smoke.


32 posted on 07/10/2014 8:51:43 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: shove_it

Perhaps this “missing light” is the Shekinah Glory of God shinning through his creation!


33 posted on 07/10/2014 8:59:56 AM PDT by Lake Living
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To: shove_it

Obama has stolen the light. As the light elsewhere continues to decrease more and more people will run to him, bowing with tear filled eyes. Oh, wait. That’s already happening.


34 posted on 07/10/2014 9:11:38 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps.)
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To: Maceman

I didn’t see that part. That explains it. The extra light is coming from the great Obama. And old man Bush’s thousand points of light.


35 posted on 07/10/2014 9:13:00 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

They need to ask God. He created it.

We get answers from God by observing and thinking.


36 posted on 07/10/2014 9:25:36 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Maceman
According to the article, the problem isn't missing light. There's plenty of light. The problem appears to be that there are insufficient light sources in the Universe to account for all that light.

Yes, journalism continues to suck out loud. And this study only concerns ultraviolet light, not all light.

As Mark Twain said, 'If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed.'

37 posted on 07/10/2014 9:31:06 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Sawdring

Spoilers!


38 posted on 07/10/2014 11:34:46 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: shove_it

Lead author of the study Juna Kollmeier said: “It’s as if you’re in a big, brightly-lit room, but you look around and see only a few 40-watt lightbulbs. Where is all that light coming from? It’s missing from our census.”


Perhaps the calculations are wrong.


39 posted on 07/10/2014 3:17:27 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: shove_it; 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; ...
Thanks shove_it. Another Halton Arp ping, he's dead, but he's on a roll.


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40 posted on 07/10/2014 6:38:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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