Missing matter found in deep space

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/20/08 | Maggie Fox

[RightWhale]

That’s right. The proof was just that. It was proved to the satisfaction of topologists. That wouldn’t be me.

[AU72]

I wonder if this discovery will have implications for the closed or open Universe debate?

[Empireoftheatom48]

I think a lot of that dark missing matter might be near The Rosie O planet hugging Heranus. Maybe a galactic cleansing will help us to find it.

[samtheman]

In my understanding, the debate is over. We will not crunch. We will evaporate.

No matter how much “missing mass” we find out there, it doesn’t change the fact that the rate of expansion is accelerating.

No Big Crunch for us.

Call it: the Big Rip.

[AU72]

So there won’t be a do-over.

[joebuck]

"It is effectively just a lot of hot air and little tangible substance."

Which would not seem to be able to generate the gravitational effects which are ascribed to "dark matter".

[jongaltsr]

Since I’ve never been to the center of the universe I could hardly have any perspection of where it may or not be. All I know is that when Stars go nova they explode in all direction along the equitorial plane. I would think that the original (Big Bang) would work the same way.

FYI - I’m not THAT old.....

[jongaltsr]

Stars burn hydrogen and get helium. They burn helium to get heavier substances, which in turn fuel the fires to get even heavier elements, all the way up to iron. (Heavier than iron requires a supernova.) So what kind of stellar burn sequence produced all that oxygen without producing the intermediate elements between hydrogen and oxygen?

The pyhsics of such a Massive explosion was possibly far beyond the chemistry that exists at this point. I beleive that one of the theories is that physical dynamics is far different now then on the few nano seconds of the initial (Big Bang).

The gravitional dimensions, temperatures and molecular structures would all have been more intense than anything that exists now - even in the largest starts.