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Old December 29th 08, 06:07 PM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics,alt.sci.physics,alt.astronomy
Kirk Gregory Czuhai
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Default "Swiss Cheese" Model Refines Dark Energy Calculations

i am just thinking "REUBAN SANDWICH YUM!"
you wierdos have your fun; if it were not for the likes of
atomic bombs maybe i could
think you were harmless.
will your insanity ever end?
peace and love,
and,
love and peace,
kirk
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p.s.
now you see you are proving the universe is only about 6,000 years
old?!!!!
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Sam Wormley wrote:
Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
"Swiss Cheese" Model Refines Dark Energy Calculations

http://jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1988


In that article titled: "What Can Swiss Cheese Teach us
About Dark Energy?"

"A group of researchers from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill.,
recently invoked what's called the Swiss-cheese model of the universe to explain why these
supernovae might appear to be moving faster away from us than they really are. The
universe is made up of lumps of matter interspersed with giant holes, or voids, somewhat
like Swiss cheese. In fact, last year, astronomers at the University of Minnesota, Twin
Cities, reported finding the king of all known voids, spanning one billion light-years. In
other words, it would take light -- which holds the title for fastest stuff in the
universe -- one billion years to go from one side of the void to the other!

"The researchers at Fermi said these voids might lie between us and the supernovae being
observed, acting like concave lenses to make the objects appear dimmer and farther than
they really are. If so, then the supernova might not be accelerating away from us after
all. Their theory claimed to provide a way in which dark energy might go poof.

"Vanderveld and her colleagues at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., looked more closely at
this theory and found a few "holes." The group at Fermi had assumed a bunch of voids would
line up between us and the supernovae, but Vanderveld's group said, in reality, the voids
would be distributed more randomly -- again like Swiss cheese. With this random
distribution, the voids are not enough to explain away dark energy".