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2015-08-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Massive Study Confirms Our Universe Is 'Slowly Dying'

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Posted by Fred 2015-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Just checking in......

Posted by Sherry 2015-08-12 01:08|| 2015-08-12 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Sherry - you sound like my kind of girl. If you like, we could meet around 5 this Friday at Grand Central. I'll put a yellow feather in my fedora.

Posted by Fairbanks, Sr., Douglas 2015-08-12 04:14|| 2015-08-12 04:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Humans are causing the heat death of the universe with our activities! This calls for massive government intervention and regulations!!!! Whoever doesn't go along is a heat death denier and must be killed!!!

Posted by DarthVader 2015-08-12 09:50|| 2015-08-12 09:50|| Front Page Top

#4 A few decades ago, we did not know dark matter exists. Now we believe it is 96% of the matter in our universe.

We also discovered the universe's expansion was slowing down and then speeded up. How these astronomers can conclude anything is beyond me.

Posted by frozen al 2015-08-12 10:24|| 2015-08-12 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Wait a billion years and see what the consensus is then.

Posted by gorb 2015-08-12 11:20|| 2015-08-12 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Women and minorities hardest hit

Posted by Rex Mundi 2015-08-12 11:36|| 2015-08-12 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Technically, if you survive birth, it's just the start of the journey to death.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-12 11:45|| 2015-08-12 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Meh, we've had a good run.

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-08-12 12:08|| 2015-08-12 12:08|| Front Page Top

#9 I recently glanced thru an article about a guy who says dark matter does NOT exist

I thought I understood the concept, but not well enough to explain it - I've slept since then.

Posted by Bobby 2015-08-12 12:56|| 2015-08-12 12:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Dark matter matters....?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-12 12:59|| 2015-08-12 12:59|| Front Page Top

#11 BLUF - from behind the subscriber wall at Discover Magazine -

Instead, McGaugh is considering an idea called Modified Newtonian Dynamics, or MOND. Although many astronomers regard it as blasphemous, MOND has consistently outperformed dark matter models in describing the motions of stars and gases in galaxies. Instead of relying on new, hypothetical types of matter, this alternative theory merely tweaks Isaac Newton’s laws of gravity to strengthen the gravitational pull as needed. If gravity plays by different rules than we thought, MOND advocates suggest, we might be able to explain galaxy dynamics, and other puzzling aspects of the universe, without having to invoke dark matter at all.

See? Don't need no steekin' dark matter!

Posted by Bobby 2015-08-12 13:00|| 2015-08-12 13:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, the Bullet Cluster looks like a smoking gun for dark matter. And MOND theories need some pretty wacky modifications to make them fit the data.

Posted by James 2015-08-12 13:42|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2015-08-12 13:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Hypothetically, for our Universe to keep expanding NEW "BIG BANGS" OR RELATED "MINI-BANGS" MUST NOMINALLY OR PERPETUALLY OCCUR, BUT ONLY AT YET UNKNOWN OR UN-PREDICATED LEVEL(S) OF RISK TO CURRENT LIFE-N-REALITY.

IOW, for our Universe to stay alive + keep expanding, Humanity must inversely be at perpetual risk of disaster or extinction from the various "Bangs".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-08-12 22:05|| 2015-08-12 22:05|| Front Page Top

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