Dark Flow, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and what they should mean to you.

[TheAnarchist]

[QUOTE=DPennington;17644028]I like this thread. Now explain M theory and string theory.[/QUOTE]

Isn't that almost the same?

[Zombii]

[quote="DeerBattler"]So basically....these are just 3 theories that explain that scientists have absolutely no idea what is going on in space. [/quote]

Pretty much yeah. Just goes to show how little we know as a species.

[quote="DPennington"]I like this thread. Now explain M theory and string theory. [/quote]

Maybe. *Sniff* Maybe.

[Skipan]

nothing

[PudgyFistPro]

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;17642792]This thread is no longer about cool science.

It is now about Facepunchers bitching and whining about one grammatical error.[/QUOTE]

all science is cool. Also it wasn't a grammatical error, it was a common sense error.

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[QUOTE=Zombii;17644080]Pretty much yeah. Just goes to show how little we know as a species.

Maybe. *Sniff* Maybe.[/QUOTE]

hope this auto merges..

Or actually how MUCH we know. Just the fact that we deduce so many things from our point of vantage is enough to make me proud of the human race. Just imagine how immense all of space is, how completely complex it is... We've just scratched the surface, but what a surface it is! From the wheel to dark matter supported by gravitational evidence, quite a nice leap for such a small span of time.

Also would like to point out that nothing can be proven, only supported.

[DPennington]

[QUOTE=TheAnarchist;17644042]Isn't that almost the same?[/QUOTE]

Yes.

[Maloof?]

I don't get the allusion linking dark matter and walls. I'd probably have used glue or something.

[aVoN]

[QUOTE=DeerBattler;17643804]So basically....these are just 3 theories that explain that scientists have absolutely no idea what is going on in space.[/QUOTE]

Some sort of. We know much but there is even more out there. And we have to find this out, that's what science is good for.

[Hellduck07]

This thread makes my thinker box hurt.

[TheDecryptor]

[img]http://supercomputing.fnal.gov/SC2006/images/darkmatter2.jpg[/img]
(I hope Fermilab's fine with me hotlinking)

Dark Matter is interesting, and since we now know how to detect it (look for invisible mass :v:) we can locate where it is, and make an image of it (like the false colour images of distant supernova's and such, but entirely created by a computer)

[GunsNRoses]

[QUOTE=TheChantzGuy;17642640]I would like to know how they know the universe is "expanding".[/QUOTE]

Red shift, look it up.

[xGoodApollox]

My physics professor is actually engaged in research observing/looking for dark matter traces. It's all in a mine underground in North Dakota and involves small light and electricity flashes contained within a massive sphere of water. It's really interesting.