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‘Big Bang Machine’ sets new energy record
Thaindian News —
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London, November 30 (ANI): The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has said that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), popularly known as the ‘big bang machine’, has set a world record by accelerating to energy levels that had never been previously reached.According to a report in the Telegraph, the ...15 hours ago -
The Universe: Dark Matter - Dark Energy
The Discovery Enterprise —
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Today on Discovery Enterprise we explore the dark side of the Universe. Less than five percent of our universe is comprised of matter that is radiant or interacts with light or other forms of electromagnetic radiation. For thousands of years we have looked at the night sky and believed the illuminated stuff was all ...1 day ago -
Future spaceships powered by black holes and dark matter
Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk —
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Spaceships powered by black holes or dark matter may be the future of stellar exploration.4 days ago -
CONGRATS MOTHER EARTH! YOU’VE SURVIVED THE FIRST HADRON COLLIDER SMASH
MEANINGFUL DISTRACTION —
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Those of you who read science things or have had the unfortunate experience of seeing the second Dan Brown/Tom Hanks flick Angels and Demons are probably familiar with the Hadron Collider. Located outside of Geneva, it’s a $9 billion, 17 mile racetrack like structure that shoots a bunch of beams of protons back ...1 week ago -
Exploding stars and the accelerating cosmos: Einstein’s blunder undone
Free Radicals - science and sustainability news from the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney —
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Interested in Cosmos, dark matter or dark energy, this talk may be for you.Recent observations of exploding stars discovered halfway across the Universe reveal an astonishing fact: the expansion of the Universe is speeding up! Apparently, the Universe is dominated by a mysterious dark energy that drives cosmic ...1 week ago -
Fermi may have spotted dark matter
Bad Astronomy —
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One of the secondary goals of the Fermi gamma ray satellite is to look for the signature of dark matter. One idea for dark matter is that it’s composed of weird (and as yet undetected) particles called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles). A very odd property about them is that they are self-annihilating: ...1 week ago -
blue is the colour of four knocks
rashbre central —
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Ive been chained to my desk again today and Im just about to start my evening shift. I did take a short break for food and watched the Bowie base on Mars being attacked in Doctor Who. But not by spiders. The Waters of Mars. There were water based organisms that made people into smiling cracked faced Zombies. The ...1 week ago -
Neutralinos--Candidate for Dark Matter and Lynchpin for Supersymmetry Next on List at LHC
Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds —
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The reason physicists are so excited about the LHC, though, is that the kind of supersymmetry that best solves the problem with the Higgs will become visible at the higher energies the LHC will explore.2 weeks ago -
No Night Without A Telescope Is No Dark Matter
The Bi-College News Online —
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By Malisa Smith "If you have never looked through a decent telescope before, you have no idea of the amount of detail that is in space," said Haverford’s Professor of Astronomy, Bruce Partridge. "The eye itself cannot see the colors of most stars, but if you magnify space with a telescope you can…see all sorts of ...2 weeks ago -
Einstein’s Relativity and Dark Matter, or MOND, You Decide
Astrocast.TV —
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In a paper published in the journal Science, available online now here , astrophysicists address the interrelated issues of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and dark matter (also known as missing mass). In the authors’ own words, “the modified theory of Newtonian ...3 weeks ago -
New Measurements Confirm Cosmologists’ Standard Model
International Space Fellowship —
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Written by Nicholos Wethington New measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover light from the Big Bang – lend further support the Standard Cosmological Model and the existence of dark matter and dark energy, limiting the possibility of alternative models of the Universe.Researchers from ...3 weeks ago -
Dark Matter Search Hits Snag
Astrocast.TV —
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Reporting on an attempt to repeat dark matter detection experiments, first reported in the European Physics Journal in 2008, a group of astrophysicists led by Frank Calaprice at Princeton University have informed the journal Nature that they may not be able to replicate the experiment due to the lack of sufficiently ...3 weeks ago -
Stars Fueled by Dark Matter Could Hold Secrets to the Universe
SciNewsBlog —
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Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Dark stars could grow to become much larger than normal stars, and might collapse to form the giant black holes in the centers of galaxies. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Stars Fueled by Dark Matter Could Hold Secrets to the Universe ...3 weeks ago -
Cosmic glow is map of early universe
Skymania News | Space headlines —
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Astronomers have peered billions of years back in time to make detailed maps of the early cosmos. They used a giant telescope near the South Pole to observe a faintly glowing echo of the young universe. An international team jointly led by Professor Walter Gear of Cardiff University and Professor Sarah Church of ...3 weeks ago -
Stupid Creationist Arguments 3: The Fine Tuned Argument
Lone Wolfs Den —
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The argument is self explanatory. The universe, the earth, blah has been fine tuned fro life. Some take the argument further and say the universe, the earth, blah has been fine tuned for human life.I’ll start with the universe: The majority of the universe is empty space. The vast majority of the matter in the [...]3 weeks ago -
Cosmologists’ standard view of the universe confirmed by scientists
Thaindian News —
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Washington, November 3 (ANI): An international team of scientists has used high-precision measurements to confirm what is cosmologists’ standard view of the universe.These measurements of the cosmic microwave background-a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe-put limits on proposed alternatives to ...3 weeks ago -
An Alternative Dark Matter Theory
Mystic Medusa —
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“…The theory of Dark Matter tells us as much about the modern unconscious as about the cosmos. Jung noticed that whatever we suppress gathers in the unconscious and throws a ’shadow’ over the world. Dark Matter is precisely the shadow of the imaginative fullness we have denied to our cosmos. The daimons we ...4 weeks ago -
Findings on Mysterious Haze at Galaxy’s Center
NYT > Theater —
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Astronomers said the particles around the core of the Milky Way might be the decayed remains of the long-sought dark matter that constituted a quarter of the universe.4 weeks ago -
Can supercomputers unravel universe’s secrets?
Invest In India —
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Scientists are using the world’s fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe including dark energy. Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib of the Laboratory’s Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Group. Even ...4 weeks ago -
A Universe From Nothing
Open Parachute —
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The origin of the universe is one of the biggest questions there is. Some people resort to easy answers – which don’t answer anything. But its good to know that others do take the question seriously and actively research it. Here is a great lecture from Lawrence Krauss – “A Universe from Nothing”. He is ...4 weeks ago
