Potentially Major Findings of Dark Matter Satellite Experiment Soon to Be Published - Polidicks

[quote]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 today (Feb. 17) here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. That's when the first paper of results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle collector mounted on the outside of the International Space Station, will be submitted to a scientific journal, said MIT physicist Samuel Ting, AMS principle investigator.[/quote] [quote]"It will not be a minor paper," Ting said, hinting that the findings were important enough that the scientists rewrote the paper 30 times before they were satisfied with it.[/quote] [url]http://www.space.com/19845-dark-matter-found-nasa-experiment.html[/url] dis is so excitin'

I read it minutes ago, didn't understand shit but it has dark matter in it so it must be cool.

Im very excited

Sweet, we might have actually found dark matter, which would be pretty big.

[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;39633752]Sweet, we might have actually found dark matter, which would be pretty big.[/QUOTE] That would be huge. I'd say possibly "more important than Higgs-Boson" huge.

I cant look at his avatar and then read 'dis is so excitin' without laughing.

If we find dark matter, doesn't that help explain the origin of the Universe, as well as the reason why it keeps expanding at an accelerated rate, and what will be the ultimate end for it as well?

[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;39633800]If we find dark matter, doesn't that help explain the origin of the Universe, as well as the reason why it keeps expanding at an accelerated rate, and what will be the ultimate end for it as well?[/QUOTE] Not so much the first one, but yes to the other two.

I don't know what any of this means, but dark matter is cool. I think.

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;39633778]That would be huge. I'd say possibly "more important than Higgs-Boson" huge.[/QUOTE] I guess you could say, it would be "massive" :v: I'll see myself out.

I think I'll cross my fingers and repeat "fuel for faster-than-light travel" over and over for about two weeks.

[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;39634700]I think I'll cross my fingers and repeat "fuel for faster-than-light travel" over and over for about two weeks.[/QUOTE] Almost certainly not. Dark matter is likely just massive particles which don't couple with the electromagnetic field. Nothing physics breaking. (And all physics so far says no FTL)

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;39633816]Not so much the first one, but yes to the other two.[/QUOTE] I thought Dark Matter and Dark Energy are different things

Whoops. Yes. They are different. I conflated them in my head for a moment. Dark matter does affect the ultimate fate of the universe, but doesn't explain the expansion.

The real question is if we can harness this so called 'dark matter' and use it for energy, or is it to evil?

I'm going to laugh if the finding is that dark matter doesn't actually exist and we've just been fucking up this whole time

"We got nothin"

[QUOTE=Zeke129;39635548]I'm going to laugh if the finding is that dark matter doesn't actually exist and we've just been fucking up this whole time[/QUOTE] "Sorry there was some cheese on the lens"

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;39635072]Almost certainly not. Dark matter is likely just massive particles which don't couple with the electromagnetic field. Nothing physics breaking. (And all physics so far says no FTL)[/QUOTE] Well can we at least get anti-gravity. I'm not going to live forever, science, so get working it already. Come on. Chop chop.

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;39635072]Almost certainly not. Dark matter is likely just massive particles which don't couple with the electromagnetic field. Nothing physics breaking. (And all physics so far says no FTL)[/QUOTE] why cant we just make light go faster there problem solved

[QUOTE=Zeke129;39635548]I'm going to laugh if the finding is that dark matter doesn't actually exist and we've just been fucking up this whole time[/QUOTE] Michelson-Morley 2: Return of the Negative Result

Dark Matter becomes sort of this loose pretext for "cool sciencey shit" in TV shows and movies but other than the fact that it's essentially impossible to detect directly, it's pretty mundane. It's interesting to astronomers and physicists simply for the fact that there's so much of it in the universe but at the same time there's no way up until now to tell what it actually is (beyond vaguely being "matter")

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;39635072]Almost certainly not. Dark matter is likely just massive particles which don't couple with the electromagnetic field. Nothing physics breaking. (And all physics so far says no FTL)[/QUOTE] hell I be happy with just light speed

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;39635781]hell I be happy with just light speed[/QUOTE] Also impossible Slightly below, knock yourself out Not even light goes at the speed of light most of the time and I think he's the expert here

[QUOTE=Zeke129;39635717]why cant we just make light go faster there problem solved[/QUOTE] we need to make space ship's that can go Light Speed before we even think about making Hyper Speed ( Faster than Light Speed ) [editline]18th February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Zeke129;39635793]Also impossible Slightly below, knock yourself out Not even light goes at the speed of light most of the time and I think he's the expert here[/QUOTE] well fuck half of the speed of light I be happy with

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;39635813]we need to make space ship's that can go Light Speed before we even think about making Hyper Speed ( Faster than Light Speed ) [/QUOTE] Hyper speed is not a thing

[QUOTE=Zeke129;39635793]Also impossible Slightly below, knock yourself out[/QUOTE] Quick interplanetary travel, plus the ability to reach the 50-something nearby star systems in decades instead of centuries? Yes, please.

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;39635895]Hyper speed is not a thing[/QUOTE] Let's go with ludicrous speed then

Reminds me of the time my French teacher in highscool misread 'dark' on an article and started explaining to us the wonders of duck matter in French class.