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Old 03-22-2005, 06:49 PM   #1
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A small group of physicists are battling what they see as the cosmological equivalent to the bogeyman: an enormous dark force, that nobody has ever seen, driving galaxies apart.

I know there are some eggheads here who will love this:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1AB...5BBE8C55B2D.htm

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Old 03-23-2005, 12:07 AM   #2
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Yeah...

Call me when this becomes more than just a game of "Look Ma! I made the numbers work out!" Too bad that's not going to happen in my lifetime.

Personally, I like the cosmological theory put forward at the end of "Men in Black." That's something I can wrap my tentacles around.
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Old 03-23-2005, 12:40 AM   #3
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*Yawn* I'm sorry, what? I drifted off.
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Old 03-23-2005, 04:46 AM   #4
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This isn't a new theory at all, but it's pretty interesting.

I read up on this a lot years ago, but basically, when you add up all the forces in the universe, everything has to have an opposite force to balance out the universe but something doesn't add up and so there is a missing force out there that is a huge chunk of the universe just like there might be dark matter out there.

It used to be called Einstein's Flub Factor because he had to throw in this constant in his calculations to make things actually work out. He always thought he was wrong about them and just fudging his numbers and the community also though this cosmological constant wasn't genuine but new evidence shows there is indeed a force that seems to be counteracting the force of gravity...otherwise the universe would contract into the big crunch.
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