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Ultracold Polar Telescope Searches for Dark Energy

Is an invisible, undetectable force tearing the universe apart? The South Pole Telescope is scanning the skies for signs of dark energy to help pinpoint the cause of cosmic expansion. The answers it provides could allow us to better explain the origin of the universe and its ultimate fate. More »

2:30 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Ed Grabianowski
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Latest by n/a: As humans look out further, gathering in larger bits of the Universe to examine in detail, the Universe grows larger. Our human minds can collapse entire chunks of an finite Universe simply by observing. That's one of the things human more »

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Is Dark Energy the New Aether?

You may think physics has changed over the past 200 years, but it hasn't. Today, theoretical physicists can't understand why the universe is expanding at an observed rate that doesn't quite mesh with general relativity. Back in the 19th century, theoretical physicists couldn't understand how electromagnetic energy and gravity could propagate through empty space. The proposed solution in both cases was the same: there must some stuff out there that we can't see, yet affects the entire universe. In the past, that substance was aether. Is today's dark energy the modern equivalent? More »

11:45 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Ed Grabianowski
2,380 views, 48 comments

Latest by n/a: Professor Dr. Otto E. Roessler estimates 50 months Earth accretion time from a single micro black hole captured by Earth's gravity (www.golem.de/0802/57477-4.html, translation at www.lhcconcerns.com/ more »