Advances in the Concept of Dark Matter

[ChaoofNee]

"To quote a press release on NASA's site, astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered 'how dark and normal matter have been forced apart in an extraordinarily energetic collision.' There will be a briefing at noon, August 21 ET, on this discovery, with streaming media provided by NASA, and some details of the research posted on Harvard's Chandra site just beforehand."

I've always found astronomy interesting. Also, scary.
This will undoubtedly be more proof of how there's a lot of cool shit happening in space and we really can't control a damn bit of it.

[Othello Harrington]

I hadn't though they had proven the existance of dark matter yet. Or am I thinking of anti-matter.

Regardless, the implications of this are astounding to say the least. This could lead to space travel without the restraints of nuclear or convetional energy.

[Thief Silver]

All I know is, I'm glad that idiot Biff isn't here to comment on this.

[Wildkat]

unavailable for comment..

[voltz]

Regardless, the implications of this are astounding to say the least. This could lead to space travel without the restraints of nuclear or convetional energy.

Or they could open a black hole in our system and call it a day.

[Diff-chan]

I opened a black hole in your mom.

[Tracer]

Dark Matter =/= Anti-matter.

So far the exact nature or even true existance of Dark Matter is uncertian at best, though without theoretical Dark Matter it is impossible (as yet) to explain the movement of bodies in galaxies and the galaxies movement (speed and 'direction'). It's thought that it must exist, though what IT is is entirely up in the air. Nutrinos, a theoretical sub-atomic particle is thought to be a prime candidate for Dark Matter but a more interesting one is a substantial albeit weakly interacting particle called "Wimps" which scarcely interact with all 'normal' matter and pass right through it. As such, Wimps would be tremendously hard to detect, even if they do (if the theory is correct) make up more than 90% of the Universe. Near-Impossible to detect because if it passes through normal matter, the stuff our instruments are made of, then how will they register a measurement or detection of such a particle. Dark Matter is really more a bag of questions than it is answers and BY NO MEANS should Dark Matter be considerd a very very real and legitimate part of our universe with the exception of simply making its definition so vauge as to diminish the likelyhood of disproveing its existance outright. Currently, science favors the vauge and ambigious definition and simply states that this 'stuff' is not ordinarily visable and makes up a large portion of the known universe. Names and exact nature are totally unknown.


This is an incredible find though, clearly one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos is dark matter and any revelation about it is substantial.

[Opaque]

I opened a black hole in your mom.

Your mom is a black hole.

[Ryan]

Regardless, the implications of this are astounding to say the least. This could lead to space travel without the restraints of nuclear or convetional energy.

How do you come up with this.

[Tracer]

How do you come up with this.

Power Crystals, man.