Posted on 08/15/2006 9:45:42 AM PDT by zeugma
NASA Announces Dark Matter Discovery
Astronomers who used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 21, to announce how dark and normal matter have been forced apart in an extraordinarily energetic collision.
Reporters must call Megan Watzke at the Chandra Press Office at: 617- 496-7998 or e-mail: mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu for participation information. Shortly before the start of the briefing, images and graphics about the research will be posted at: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/
Briefing participants:
- Maxim Markevitch, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
- Doug Clowe, postdoctoral fellow, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
- Sean Carroll, assistant professor of physics, University of Chicago, Ill.
A video file about the discovery will air on NASA TV at noon, Aug. 21. Audio of the event will be streamed live on the Web at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/home
In current brane theory, there are many brane combinations of space and time which effect particles bound to those branes. Gravity from the graviton particle (not found yet, but theorized) is the single force which is not bound by branes and the nature of gravity as a weak force marco-wise is theorized to be weak because it is spread across so many branes beyond our brane. If there are other branes not directly discernable by our brane, you literally could be vacuuming up dark matter, but there would be a 'mass/gravity effect that would not escape your attention. So, no, you wouldn't likely be vacuuming it up regularly if you don't find your 'bagged grit' to be unusually heavy.
No, wait ...
Red Badger posted pics at #15
ROFL!!
thought you might be interested ping...
That's the same thing the Oreck guy told me.
Racist!
I hate when NASA teases so far in advance. This is an interesting finding...
One pound of it weighs 500 pounds!
I agree. There is no such thing as Dark Matter or Dark Energy any more than there is a Darth Vader.
Clearly you don't have white carpets.
Liberal Intelligence? Sounds like a Dark Matter conspiracy to me.
/Sarcasm Off
hmmmmmmm I'm in the dark, does it matter?
The most common elements in the galaxy are dark matter and stupidity...
Somewhat. The membrane approach has led some to postulate multiverses or parallel universes. Strictly speakng, brane theory is involved with branes confined to the universe of our existence, though some interactions may not be as obvious as light (for instance). String theory will likley prove to be somewhat the state of our reality, though perhaps not having 26 dimensions.
A question from the dunce in the corner: is dark matter the same as anti matter?
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