Tag Archives: Dark Matter

Is Dark Matter Made Up of Mini Black Holes from the Big Bang?

Interesting stuff. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Live Science By Meredith Fore, Live Science Contributor | April 9, 2018  Dark matter, the mysterious extra mass in the universe that emits no light yet exerts a gravitational pull, may actually … Continue reading

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Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: NewScientist Andrey Kravtsov (The University of Chicago) and Anatoly Klypin (New Mexico State University). Visualisation by Andrey Kravtsov   By Leah Crane The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This … Continue reading

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Three-decade quest backs physics’ ‘Standard Model’

Meanwhile, religious lunatics, Muslims of course, are beheading people because they belong to the wrong brand of Islam, as well as westerners for being infidels… The two extremes of mankind’s intellect at work; on the one hand you have science … Continue reading

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New evidence that dark matter could be self-interacting

Interesting article regarding dark matter. TGO Refer to story below. Source: ars technica Colliding galaxies suggest dark matter interacts with forces other than gravity. by Xaq Rzetelny – Apr 19, 2015 9:00pm EDT A new study examined the galaxy cluster … Continue reading

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New clue sheds some light on mysterious ‘dark matter’

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press Paris (AFP) – Scientists on Tuesday said they had found tantalising evidence suggesting “dark matter” — the mysterious substance believed to comprise most of the Universe’s mass — may be … Continue reading

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The LHC is being resurrected this weekend — here’s how it could change physics forever

The Large Hadron Collider has to be mankind’s most remarkable engineering feat. To conceive of the idea of smashing atoms, and be able to design and build such a huge, complex machine truly is amazing. TGO Refer to story below. Source: … Continue reading

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Big Bang, Deflated? Universe May Have Had No Beginning

Isn’t science great? It’s always seeking answers and never stops questioning. TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tia Ghose If a new theory turns out to be true, the universe may not have started with a bang. In … Continue reading

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Lawrence Krauss: How the Universe Became Something out of Nothing

Interesting, but then again, the speaker is a scientist, not a theologian. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe | Moyers & Company

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a fascinating man. If interested, go ahead and view the video below. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Higgs quest deepens into realm of ‘New Physics’

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By Mariette Le Roux  Paris (AFP) – Two years after making history by unearthing the Higgs boson, the particle that confers mass, physicists are broadening their probe into its identity, … Continue reading

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Dark Matter and Dark Energy Mysteries: Do Neutrons Hold the Key?

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  Neutrons bouncing in Earth’s gravity are helping to shed light on two of the greatest mysteries in the universe, dark matter and dark energy, researchers … Continue reading

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Exploring Dark Energy

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Daily Beast By Matthew R. Francis  The Daily Beast The Universe is expanding—the space between galaxies is growing larger all the time. Not only that, but the rate of expansion is … Continue reading

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Does Dark Energy Spring From the ‘Quantum Vacuum?’

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall, Senior Writer  Observations of Planck and other satellites help to solve the equation of the state of dark energy. The mysterious dark energy that’s driving the universe’s accelerated … Continue reading

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Dark Matter Near Earth Peaks Every March, New Study Suggests

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Scientific American By Clara Moskowitz January 6, 2014 6:30 AM Billions of particles of invisible “dark matter” are probably flying through your body right now, passing through the spaces between your atoms … Continue reading

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You’re Interacting With Dark Matter Right Now

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Atlantic By Megan Garber | The Atlantic Here’s a little experiment. Hold up your hand. Now put it back down. In that window of time, your hand somehow interacted with dark … Continue reading

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Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By JOHN HEILPRIN and SETH BORENSTEIN | Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station has found the footprint of something that could be … Continue reading

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Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found? Big News Coming Soon

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Clara Moskowitz | SPACE.com  BOSTON — Big news in the search for dark matter may be coming in about two weeks, the leader of a space-based particle physics experiment said … Continue reading

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Elusive Dark Energy Is Real, Study Says

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below: Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com Dark energy, the mysterious substance thought to be accelerating the expansion of the universe, almost certainly exists despite some astronomers’ doubts, a new study says. After … Continue reading

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Milky Way ‘Haze’ May Be Dark Matter Signature

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com Strange radiation streaming from the core of our Milky Way galaxy may be a long-sought signal of dark matter, the elusive stuff thought to make up … Continue reading

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Search for Dark Matter Particles Turns Up Zilch

Interesting stuff… The scientific method continues to be the only rational approach to learning about the universe and the laws which govern it. Unlike religion, science requires proof before new ideas or concepts are accepted, and even then, it is … Continue reading

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Dark Matter May Collide With Atoms Inside You More Often Than Thought

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Charles Q. Choi | SPACE.com Invisible dark matter particles may regularly pass through our bodies, and dozens to thousands of these particles may be colliding with atoms inside us every … Continue reading

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Nearby Dark Matter Mysteriously Missing

Those of us who enjoy learning and making an attempt to understand why things are the way they are find these articles quite interesting; those of us with simple minds don’t. Those who don’t are generally the religious types who … Continue reading

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Biggest Map Yet of Universe’s Invisible Dark Matter Unveiled

Fascinating stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor Space.com | SPACE.com AUSTIN, Texas — The hidden side of the universe is now a bit more illuminated thanks to the largest map yet … Continue reading

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CERN scientists eye parallel universe breakthrough

This is fascinating! There is no doubt that the experiments being conducted at CERN will provide never-before imagined information regarding the formation of the universe and other currently unknown phenomena. As an alternative, for you religious folks out there, you … Continue reading

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Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN

This is so interesting… Hopefully these scientists will in fact discover dark matter, as it will lead to other discoveries and bring us closer to what may one day be a “theory of everything,” maybe even in the next decade … Continue reading

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