Dark Energy & Dark Matter

[Graffikgal]

Interesting article, IMO

http://science.nasa.gov/missions/jdem/

Take all the stars, all the planets and everything we can see and detect with telescopes and add them all up. That total will represent only four percent of the universe. If the universe came with a list of ingredients, the ordinary atoms that make up stars, trees and animals would be at the bottom of the label, like some exotic spice. Nearly 25 percent of the universe takes the form of dark matter, a mysterious substance that seems to be intrinsically different from ordinary atoms. And the rest, a whopping 70 percent of the universe, is a mysterious quantity we call dark energy.

[JayCeeS]

I read something in Popular Science about a mine in South Dakota was in the process of being used to help identify dark matter. I will see if I can find the article.

[Laurie]

(01-30-2011 01:53 PM)Graffikgal Wrote:  Interesting article, IMO

http://science.nasa.gov/missions/jdem/

Take all the stars, all the planets and everything we can see and detect with telescopes and add them all up. That total will represent only four percent of the universe. If the universe came with a list of ingredients, the ordinary atoms that make up stars, trees and animals would be at the bottom of the label, like some exotic spice. Nearly 25 percent of the universe takes the form of dark matter, a mysterious substance that seems to be intrinsically different from ordinary atoms. And the rest, a whopping 70 percent of the universe, is a mysterious quantity we call dark energy.

A very profound and interesting post! There is much that we mere humans don't know, and much that we have to yet to learn. We have not even begun to understand, even in the most basic way, what is out there, what is contained, and, more importantly, what isn't. And, that's without the added and recently new knowledge that there are other universes beyond our own.

I'm gonna go right out on a limb here and say that it's my belief that 'spiritually' that enormous part of the universe that seems a mystery to our physical constraints, actually isn't such a mystery, at all. Maybe we know all of it's secrets, perhaps we have explored all of its corners, in other 'states of mind' or even in other lifetimes... who knows.