No dark energy at all?

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 5:32 pm Post subject: No dark energy at all?

In a survey of distant clusters of galaxies, European Space Agency's
XMM-Newton observatory has found puzzling differences between today's
clusters of galaxies and those present in the Universe around seven
thousand million years ago. Some scientists claim that this can be
interpreted to mean that the 'dark energy' which most astronomers now
believe dominates the Universe simply does not exist.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/12darkenergy/

We haven´t asked Noam Chomsky about where he thinks all the dark energy in the universe is, but we have a pretty good idea.

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 6:32 pm Post subject:

I know. I am so weak. I just had to. Shocked

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

What was it Mouse said? To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. I suppose that "human," loosely used, encompasses even you, Elektro!

Cyx

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 7:21 pm Post subject:

THX.

Reminds me.. ... Keiko just died! Shocked

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

I include myself in that category as well, so it's not like I'm picking on you. It's a takes-one-to-know-one type thing.

Cyx

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 7:25 pm Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:41 am Post subject:

Interesting that the astronomer who says the amount Dark Energy in the universe is greatly exagerated is French, and the astronomers that discovered huge quantities of the stuff are Americans.

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Think this is somehow the national politicization of the Cosmos?

Cyx

mosc · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:07 pm Post subject: