There is perhaps no current problem of greater importance to astrophysics and cosmology than that of "dark matter". The controversy, as the name implies, is centered on the notion that there may exist an enormous amount of matter in the Universe that cannot be detected from the light that it emits. The evidence of dark matter is from the motions of astronomical objects, specifically stellar, galactic, and galaxy cluster/supercluster observations.
The basic argument is that if we measure velocities in some region, then there has to be enough mass there for gravity to stop all the objects from flying apart. When such velocity measurements are done on large scales, it turns out that the amount of inferred mass is much more than
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The particles include photinos, neutrinos, gravitinos, axions, and magnetic monopoles, among many others. Of these, researchers have detected only neutrinos -- and whether neutrinos have any mass remains unknown. Experiments are under way to detect other exotic particles. If they exist, and if one has a mass in the correct range, then that particle might pervade the universe and constitute dark matter.
The MACHO Project is a collaboration between scientists at the Mt. Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories, the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the Santa Barbara, San Diego, & Berkeley campuses of the University of California, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Their primary aim is to test the hypothesis that a significant fraction of the dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way is made up of objects like brown dwarfs or planets: these objects have come to be known as MACHOs, for MAssive Compact Halo Objects. The signature of these objects is the occasional amplification of the light from extragalactic stars by the gravitational lens effect. The amplification can be large, but events are extremely rare: it is necessary to monitor photometrically several million stars for a period of years in order to obtain a useful detection rate. For this purpose they must have built a two-channel system that employs eight CCDs, mounted on the 50 inch telescope at Mt. Stromlo. The high data rate (several GBytes per night) is
Rapper DMX was close to death when he was rushed to the hospital after he suddenly stopped breathing that led to his collapse. He did not have a pulse.
Writer, Paul Bogard, in his article, “Let There Be Dark”, argues that natural darkness should be preserved. He supports this claim by first stating that the dark is beneficial for our health, he then goes on to explain that animals also depend on darkness, and finally, he claims that our nights are growing brighter due to light pollution. Bogard’s purpose is to inform and argue in order to explain why the dark is important to society. He establishes an informative tone so that everyone understands why the dark is a necessary part of life. Bogard begins by first reasoning that the dark is good for everyone’s health because it produces melatonin.
Dark Matter is a very interesting book that I would recommend you to read. The author of Dark Matter has both assimilation and tolerance in the book. In the book tolerance is used by Jason having to survive in different situations. At one point in the book he goes to a world that is covered in snow. He built tolerance to the cold and was able to carry Amanda to a cabin and survive. But also has assimilation sprinkled in. Jason had to adapt to his doppelgangers and their worlds.
“Introduction to Poetry” and “Traveling Through the Dark,” are poems written by Billy Collins and William Stafford. The poem’s, “Introduction to Poetry”, main conflict is a teacher who tries to get his students to read and appreciate a poem, but what all the students only care about is figuring out what it means. The conflict is highlighted through the many uses of metaphors to help us understand how he wants the students to look and decipher a poem and how they only focus on finding the meaning instead of taking their time to listen and see the art of poetry. William Stafford’s poem, “Traveling Through the Dark,” describes a driver’s dilemma of deciding whether to throw a dead pregnant deer into the river, or leave it laying on the road where it can cause an accident. In both poems, the use of literary devices such as metaphors, personification, imagery, and diction are effective in making and building up the conflict and reaching the resolution.
I have learned many new things from the reading of Bad Science. I have a few of them that I will discuss because they caught my interest.
The Hubble helped scientists to discover that dark matter is the key to why galaxies are moving away from each other (Space.com
The properties of regular matter include a composition of neutrons, protons, and electrons; it can be seen and touched. The properties of dark matter are unknown; dark matter cannot be seen, touched, interact with light, or produces radiation. Dark energy is also an unknown entity, but it is considered a form of energy. Dark energy is also known as the energy of nothing or the energy of empty space. Even so the big bang theory is still widely accepted among people as the start of the universe
No school in the country gets more research funding than Johns Hopkins, and as a result no other university would be able to provide me with as many incredible research opportunities. Although I am excited by the opportunity to learn new and fascinating information inside the classrooms of Johns Hopkins, my true passion lies in doing research during college. I have always been intrigued by mystifying concepts such as general relativity, dark matter, and black holes. The learning atmosphere at Johns Hopkins University will encourage me to pursue these mysterious subjects by working on research with the brilliant minds of professors and other
Every since I have read your book, Dark Matter, I have looked at reality in a whole different way. Every day when I make a sort of important decision I think what will happen if I take the other option which makes me quaver with fear. During the reading of this book, the plot was dispersing me causing me to try and regain the truth of the story. After finishing the book I was ravenous to hear what will happen next once the entered their new world and I felt like I was hanging of a precipice.
To start off, the book I read was Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch. To give you some understanding of the plot, and how there is many more than just one Jason Dessen in this book, you’re going to need some background. This story follows a seemingly normal guy in the beginning- married, one child, stable job. However, at one point in his life, Jason was on the verge of a scientific breakthrough. He was studying quantum physics, which is basically fancy talk for discovering a way into the multiverse. The multiverse is a long-running theory that every time someone makes a decision, another world splits off from that point on; essentially creating infinite worlds. Jason could never continue with his research because his girlfriend, and future wife, was pregnant, so at that point he decided on a family instead. To make a long story short, a Jason from a different world (Jason2), who had decided on a career instead of a family, already invented a box that can take you through the multiverse. He abducted Jason1, and they swapped lives, in an effort to obtain what the other never had. One got the chance at a family and one got to experience the
The fact that the stars are confined within the galaxy, even though their vertical velocities are measured to be high enough, necessitates the presence of unseen mass in the galaxy” . Swiss astronomer, Fritz Zwicky, in 1933 was investigating a galaxy cluster. “While making his investigations in the galaxy cluster at Coma constellation 90 Mega parsecs (one million parsecs) away and also at the cluster in Virgo constellation and calculated its gravitational mass using the “Virial Theorem.” (2T=n{Vtot} “He then used the mass-luminosity relation of the stars of the individual galaxies and estimated the mass of the luminous matter in each of the clusters. He came up with a huge discrepancy between these two masses and predicted the existence of dark invisible matter. “ He would call this invisible dark matter, dunkie Materie. At the time of this proclamation was not widely accepted until a “Bullet Cluster” was observed. “Authors report that the cluster is undergoing a high-velocity (around 4500 km/s) merger, evident from the spatial distribution of the hot, x-ray emitting gas, but this gas lags behind the sub cluster galaxies. Furthermore, the dark matter clump, revealed by the weak-lensing map, is coincident with the collision less galaxies, but lies ahead of the collisional gas. This and other similar observations allow good limits on the cross-section of the self-interaction of dark matter.” Now that we have an
But studying these masses as well as other things in the universe helps us to understand the universe and its fate. Which is why a press release by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/brown-dwarf-jets)
Little is known about the mysterious force called dark matter and dark energy. The information that is known about dark energy, is that it is causing a more accelerated expansion of the universe. This is why dark energy is so fascinating, because it makes up seventy five percent of the universe, yet we don't even know that much about it.
Astronomers are still in the hunt of the Dark energy and dark matter but they haven’t found none. They are undetectable which makes it
Einstein has brought many insights of life including the theory of the speed of light, which has led to the special theory of relativity that molded the way science, is today. “For example, various experiments, including the Michelson-Morley experiment, failed to measure the expected changes in the speed of light relative to the motion of the Earth. Due to this Einstein recognized that light has a measured speed that is independent of the speed of the observer” (“Albert Einstein.” 4). “Einstein showed in 1907 that mass is related to energy by the famous equation E=mc^2, which indicates the enormous amount of energy that is stored as mass, some of which is released in radioactivity and nuclear radiations, for example in the sun” (4).This enabled Einstein to be able to start and finish the general theory of relativity.