Agence France-Presse via The Raw Story. Excerpts:
To explain: the team were looking for evidence of dark matter, the substance that is believed to comprise 83 percent of matter in the Universe.
But it cannot be detected by the naked eye or by existing astronomical techniques.
Instead it is detected indirectly, from the gravitational pull that it exerts on other phenomena.
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said they had expected to spot evidence for dark matter swirling around the Sun after they mapped the motions of more than 400 stars in the Milky Way.
But they found nothing.
“The amount of mass that we derive matches very well with what we see — stars, dust and gas — in the region around the Sun,” team leader Christian Moni Bidin of Chile’s University of Concepcion said in a press release.
“But this leaves no room for the extra material — dark matter — that we were expecting. Our calculations show that it should have shown up very clearly in our measurements. But it was just not there!
We are very close now, to a very large and complete transformation how we see Everything. Everything. That Science should have to ask more specific, or radically different questions is not a bad thing at all; A wrong corridor eliminated brings us one step closer to the right one. But the ways this transformation will effect us all, at the moment, have no context. The beginnings of these changes? They are already here.
The fascination for me is watching the entire process play out, our species collectively walking the tightrope towards Enlightenment, no net to protect us, Apocalypse always a mis-step away.. Kinda thrilling, even with the unforgiving consequences of failure, yeah? Glory? Or Burn? We are all about to find out!
To explain: the team were looking for evidence of dark matter, the substance that is believed to comprise 83 percent of matter in the Universe.
But it cannot be detected by the naked eye or by existing astronomical techniques.
Instead it is detected indirectly, from the gravitational pull that it exerts on other phenomena.
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said they had expected to spot evidence for dark matter swirling around the Sun after they mapped the motions of more than 400 stars in the Milky Way.
But they found nothing.
“The amount of mass that we derive matches very well with what we see — stars, dust and gas — in the region around the Sun,” team leader Christian Moni Bidin of Chile’s University of Concepcion said in a press release.
“But this leaves no room for the extra material — dark matter — that we were expecting. Our calculations show that it should have shown up very clearly in our measurements. But it was just not there!
We are very close now, to a very large and complete transformation how we see Everything. Everything. That Science should have to ask more specific, or radically different questions is not a bad thing at all; A wrong corridor eliminated brings us one step closer to the right one. But the ways this transformation will effect us all, at the moment, have no context. The beginnings of these changes? They are already here.
The fascination for me is watching the entire process play out, our species collectively walking the tightrope towards Enlightenment, no net to protect us, Apocalypse always a mis-step away.. Kinda thrilling, even with the unforgiving consequences of failure, yeah? Glory? Or Burn? We are all about to find out!
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