That's amazing! With the size of the universe as it is, they found some right on our door step. As I don't have countless hours in which to research the topic, would you be able to give a brief of what dark matter is actually used for? (Does it go well with vanilla ice-cream?)

Pitbull said...
would you be able to give a brief of what dark matter is actually used for? (

It is used for making theories into "fact" - by simply making up stuff we have not observed. See, a few things that are "fact" and in all the highschool textbooks, don't actually work unless you make up things like dark matter.
So finding dark matter is very very important, lest a whole bunch of the faithful intelligentsia realise they based their entire work life on rubbish.

Thus, dark matter will of course be found!! Or else...

Falls into the same category as gravity waves, ghosts, UFO's and such.

It is cool to believe in some things, and not others.

Mark _australia said...

Pitbull said...
would you be able to give a brief of what dark matter is actually used for? (

It is used for making theories into "fact" - by simply making up stuff we have not observed. See, a few things that are "fact" and in all the highschool textbooks, don't actually work unless you make up things like dark matter.
So finding dark matter is very very important, lest a whole bunch of the faithful intelligentsia realise they based their entire work life on rubbish.

Thus, dark matter will of course be found!! Or else...

Falls into the same category as gravity waves, ghosts, UFO's and such.

It is cool to believe in some things, and not others.

This is *exactly* the "logic" used by anti-vaxxers and religious nut young earth creationists. Even though you're clearly kidding it's still painful

hamburglar said...
Check the bowl after a dozen schooners and a family pizza

...compounded by a reverse kanga..... [}:)]

When they get it sorted, a really good application would be to make a dark globe, sort of like a light globe only it emits dark instead of light.
That way, when you want to take a nap in the middle of the day, you could just turn on the dark globe and fill the room with darkness.
I can also foresee that the light emitting diode (LED) will also have a dark emitting diode (DED) counterpart to be used in LED tvs to make even better blacks. I think they will be so effective they will actually suck the light out of the room and people will sit around the tv just to see the amazing blackness of the dark scenes..

It's not hard .It's the glue that holds the universe together and is the place our energy (spirit,force, ghost) goes when we enter the barrel and surf the last wave.

rockmagnet said...
It's not hard .It's the glue that holds the universe together and is the place our energy (spirit,force, ghost) goes when we enter the barrel and surf the last wave.

Thank you Obi-Wan.

Who called Rockmagnet Obi whatsisname. Let me tell you. This is not the forum you are looking for.

Dark matter is the missing weight of the universe.Possibly the weight of the multiverse.A whole lot of bubbly foam (infinite universes) and one day this foam will collapse into one and cause a hell of an explosion and billions of years in the future they will call it a Big Bang(again).Dark energy is possibly the force which is causing the universe to expand. Anyway I don't know, I'm a high school dropout but one day without the benefit of high math we or I might see the light which is a bit ironic when we are talking about dark matter.And then there is quantum foam. Personally I prefer polystyrene as it makes my board tougher and lighter and does not absorb water even when it's dinged.I wonder if this is the same with parallel universes. I wonder if An alpha Magnetic da da de da will really provide the answer or just provide more questions. And let's face it, the human mind does not have the capacity to understand it all and that's where we are heading,developing AI to carry the baton. Ah! another drop of red thanks.

southace said...
Did the Big Bang happen Before Christ or after ? when did the cave men and dinosaurs arrive? And who made the Big Bang was that Jesus or his dad? I'm confused now.

DM just is. It's that simple.

Can't you see the spaces between these letters?