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Several weeks ago I read or saw on tv that several astronomers had
discovered a huge missing area of space. Would this tie in at all with the missing matter? |
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Thus spake Theodora Deski
Several weeks ago I read or saw on tv that several astronomers had discovered a huge missing area of space. Would this tie in at all with the missing matter? No. There are empty spaces between galaxies, and larger spaces between galaxy clusters. This just seems to be an area of empty space much larger than normal, perhaps larger than would expected in current models, but I don't know a reason to think this is impossible. Missing matter is an underdensity of matter throughout the universe. Current models believe there is an exotic form of matter, known as Cold Dark Matter which has been impossible to detect by normal means. That idea is not universally accepted, but there is a shortage of alternative ideas. Regards -- Charles Francis moderator sci.physics.foundations. substitute charles for NotI to email |
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On Aug 30, 3:44 am, (Theodora Deski) wrote:
Several weeks ago I read or saw on tv that several astronomers had discovered a huge missing area of space. Would this tie in at all with the missing matter? Actually, it ties in better with missing theory. Rob www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw |
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(Theodora Deski) wrote:
Several weeks ago I read or saw on tv that several astronomers had discovered a huge missing area of space. Would this tie in at all with the missing matter? Hi, Theodora. When astronomers look at the universe, the most prominent feature is emptiness, and that emptiness is "clumpy", with threads and sheets of less empty areas wrapped through and around great volumes of more empty areas. The usual analogy is to a borderless pile of soap bubbles, with the areas where the bubbles intersect at points and edges being least empty, the areas where bubbles intersect at faces being medium empty, and the bubble interiors being very empty. What was recently found is analogous to an unexpectedly large soap bubble, a vast volume of very empty "interior". If I understand correctly, even the "missing matter" (which is matter whose presence we infer by the effects of its gravity on normal matter and especially on normal matter's electromagnetic radiation, but can't detect by any form of electromagnetic radiation that the "missing" or "dark" matter emits itself) is in short supply in this new, large, empty area. It was detected by its failure to accelerate via the gravity of its missing mass the "cosmic microwave background radiation" passing through it, correlated with a lack of certain kinds of visible objects in the same direction. Here is a good description of the previous record holder void, for which lots more is known than for the current one, because it has been studied longer. http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=69 xanthian. |
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"Theodora Deski" wrote in message
... Several weeks ago I read or saw on tv that several astronomers had discovered a huge missing area of space. Would this tie in at all with the missing matter? No. You have heard a seriously garbled version of this story (that's normal for TV science news). There is no "missing matter". Models of cosmological evolution after the Big Bang predict large scale structures that include large voids where less matter (both dark and baryonic, or "normal") is found in the form of galaxies. The main difference with the new discovery is, it is larger than the usual predicted voids. It isn't completely empty either. No space is missing either... -- Mike Dworetsky (Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply) |
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Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
(Theodora Deski) wrote: Several weeks ago I read or saw on tv that several astronomers had discovered a huge missing area of space. Would this tie in at all with the missing matter? Here is a good description of the previous record holder void, for which lots more is known than for the current one, because it has been studied longer. http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=69 xanthian. In your reference article: The density of the Bootes void: 1.67x10^-29 g/cm^3 is extremely small but the average density of a galaxy is also small at: ~1x10^-24 g/cm^3 and the critical density of the Universe necessary so the expansion rate of the Universe is just barely sufficient to prevent a recollapse is: ~1x10^-30 g/cm^3 This all contrasts in an extreme manner from our local density of ~1 g/cm^3 here on earth. Richard |
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