Posted on 06/03/2014 1:04:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Higgs boson is now a part of the standard model of particles. There may in fact be others. I tend to think that dark matter is weakly interacting massive particles. They cluster and attract normal matter gravitationally, but pass through normal matter like it’s not even there. The room you’re sitting in could be filled with the stuff but impossible to detect by any conventional means.
A never ending journey....................
Not necessarily................
Algore? Izzat you?????......................
How Great Thou Art
Words: Carl G. Boberg
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder
Consider all the *worlds thy hands have made,
I see the stars, I hear the *rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed:
Refrain
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee:
How great thou art! How great thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee:
How great thou art! How great thou art!
When through the woods and forest glades I wander
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees,
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,
And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze:
Refrain
And when I think that God, his Son not sparing,
Sent him to die, I scarce can take it in,
That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.
Refrain
When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!
Then *I shall bow in humble adoration,
And there proclaim, “My God, how great thou art!”
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/h/o/w/how_great_Thou_art.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Great_Thou_Art
Law of averages.................
You do. It's called 'The Bible'........................
I agree, with one exception, with your post #90. You’re quite right that the Bible is far from exhaustive—it gives us only (1) information that most people in most eras would comprehend and (2) just what we need for salvation. But the Bible goes well beyond “some general background of creation,” with twenty-five or so chapter-length or longer specific (and now scientifically proven) descriptions of creation; beyond Genesis there are important substantive passages in Job, Psalms, Proverbs, etc., etc.
There are no lines... :)
Okay. Gravity is as yet unseen. So is dark matter. How does gravity work, and attract normal matter? Check out this article:
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/06/dark-matter/
“ the physicists propose that dark matter, an invisible form of matter that makes up 85 percent of the all the matter in the universe, may be made out of a type of basic particle called the Majorana fermion. The particles existence was predicted in the 1930s but has stubbornly resisted detection.
A number of physicists have suggested that dark matter is made from Majorana particles, but Scherrer and Ho have performed detailed calculations that demonstrate that these particles are uniquely suited to possess a rare, donut-shaped type of electromagnetic field called an anapole. This field gives them properties that differ from those of particles that possess the more common fields possessing two poles (north and south, positive and negative) and explains why they are so difficult to detect.”
“ Scientists hypothesize that dark matter cannot be seen in telescopes because it does not interact very strongly with light and other electromagnetic radiation. In fact, astronomical observations have basically ruled out the possibility that dark matter particles carry electrical charges.”
There’s a lot of work being done over the last fifty years trying to figure out this stuff. A lot has been written. Einstein couldn’t figure it out. But a breakthrough could be imminent (I hope).
It’s been said for a long time that dark matter could be something similar to the neutrino, but with more mass. Neutrinos can’t clump near galaxy clusters because they just fly away at the speed of light. It’s also been suggested that dark matter may not even exist; we just don’t fully understand how gravity works over long distances. I was reading an article about dark matter once (my doctor just happened to have a Scientific American mag in his waiting room), that claimed if dark matter exists, we are in a desert zone of it. Apparently they can’t find any trace of its gravitational influence in the surrounding stars out to a few thousand light years.
Depends on whether God wanted us to be alone or not.
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