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Physicists get their hands on the second round of WMAP data.
Researchers have released the first data in three years from a NASA satellite that is mapping the faint afterglow of the Big Bang. The much anticipated results support the idea that our Universe contains a good chunk of 'dark' material, and fits the theory that it expanded rapidly in its first moments.
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Posted by Nicola Jones on March 17, 2006
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If it was SPACE-TIME that increased rapidly, what does it mean to say that it did so in a 'short time'?
Posted by: Michael Sundberg | March 17, 2006 07:14 PM
I have noticed from the reconstruction a concentration of red zones in the graphs pubblished.
Does it indicate a direction of the blast of the big banf?
Posted by: patrizion florio | March 18, 2006 12:47 PM
If the initial expansion was so rapid as to be "astronomical" in "less than a second" - (info from another source), does that mean that matter & energy travelled at speeds much higher than that of light? Or that perhaps the speed of light then was much much higher than today?
If the latter, then speed-of-light is a function of time, making the expansion of the universe be an apparency only!
Please comment.
Posted by: Harry Shamir | March 21, 2006 07:40 PM
How can humanity ever thank these researchers-enough!
anyone with 'awareness' must be saying.YES-YES!
My own personal thoughts-questions remain; now that we have this information,can all that dark matter-energy begin to be 'harvested' more easily? and we need to get 'free energy' as a genuine follow-up,from these discoveries.so whats the next step?
Posted by: DAWK | March 21, 2006 07:40 PM
It's still not clear to me why we continue down the gravity model. It seems pretty clear that it's broken, and the invention of dark matter and dark energy serves only to back a broken model. What happened to observation? Because our model says it should be there, and we can't see it, it doesn't mean it's there but invisible! It probably means it's a broken model.
People need to seriously consider new models of the universe, like plasma cosmology or the electric universe.
Cheers.
Posted by: Xavier Simmons | March 21, 2006 07:44 PM
nature.com article has Dark Energy/Dark Matter at 74%/22%, while space.com article has it at 73%/23%. What figures and precision actually resulted from WMAP's latest evaluation?
[you can perhaps find the answer on WMAP's own website http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm.html]
Posted by: Durand Stieger | March 21, 2006 11:51 PM
Not being a physicist, I can't help but wonder where the condensed matter that became our universe, itself come from? Can someone help me understand this?
Thank you!
Posted by: Jim Benson | March 22, 2006 02:48 AM
[Quran 41.12] So [Allah] decreed them as seven heavens (one above the other) in two days and revealed to each heaven its orders. And We [Allah] adorned the lowest heaven with lights, and protection. Such is the decree of the Exalted; the Knowledgeable.
According to the Quran, only the lowest Heaven has visible light. This means that this Dark Matter exists in the six Heavens superimposed above the lowest one. Also according to the Quran, each of these remaining six Heavens is of a different type and each has it's own planets like Earth:
[Quran 65.12] Allah is the one who created seven Heavens and from Earth like them (of corresponding type); [Allah’s] command descends among them so that you may know that Allah is capable of anything and that Allah knows everything.
In Islam Earth is not a unique planet. Other planets like Earth do exist throughout the other six Heavens. It is just that we cannot see them nor collide with them but we can detect their gravity.
General relativity predicted gravitational lensing, that is, the gravitational field generated by a galaxy causes the light passing through it to bend (change direction). Since this Dark Matter does not emit any light, scientists can only map its location by using gravitational lensing, that is, by detecting where light is bending in places where it shouldn't. In this image a single galaxy emits light that gets bent by dozens of invisible dark matter galaxies:
[Quran 67.3-4] [Allah] is the one who created seven superimposed Heavens. You do not see variations in the formations of the Compassionate, so redirect your sight, do you see any creation? 4 Then redirect your sight again, your vision returns to you in defeat and regret.
Posted by: Dahman | March 22, 2006 11:48 AM
The single big bang/single expanding universe/finite cosmos model is dead. I've proposed the infinite cosmos model, where big bangs come from black holes that have grown too big to hold their energy and they come apart, recycling their materials. The cosmos is infinite and thus we are seeing material moving in all directions. There is no dark matter/energy and the cosmos is infinite in size and age. Learn more in my new book Gravionics and a Spiriutal Life available via my web site www.marslife.com.
Posted by: Mike Moore | March 22, 2006 03:29 PM
In the inflation stage of the universe, it did expanded faster-than-light.
There are suggestions that the speed of light is indeed decreased since the big-bang, but the difference is not that large...
Posted by: hotafin | March 24, 2006 03:11 PM
It is hard to grasp black hole cores the size of several galaxies. They would have a super gravitational field sufficient to eat our known Universe up in a snack. It is even harder to think many such “super black hole cores” could exist… but they can!
Two such “super black hole cores” could of come so close to each other, that they created “an event”. The leaving behind of material of one or both cores was so compressed by gravity, that it was not able to “shine” till long after the main event took place! “The big bang was a dark event not a lit up one that is impossible in physics”.
The moving away gravity of the two cores simply pulled the material apart, and by lack of inner bound gravity, expanded.
This “pulled apart” Origin of Our Universe is simply a tiny near hit of a tiny speck event in infinity and eternity.
If you look at all the Attributes of the known Universe, you will find them to fit perfectly with my theory and so not clash in any way shape or form… no MYSTERY!
Posted by: Peter Whitlock | November 15, 2006 04:43 AM