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[sciencedaily.com...]
"Not only has a large chunk of the universe thought to have been found in 2002 apparently gone missing again but it is taking some friends with it, according to new research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). The new calculations might leave the mass of the universe as much as ten to 20 percent lighter than previously calculated."
PS. Did you look behind the sofa?
[edited by: King_Fisher at 6:53 am (utc) on Nov. 6, 2007]
The new calculations might leave the mass of the universe as much as ten to 20 percent lighter than previously calculated.
Could it be that they miscalculated it back then?
It surprises me when they talk about weights of such huge things. That too, to a great precision, sometimes to the extent of grams as if they have put the whole thing on a weighing machine.
And while we're at it. When you get to the "end of the universe", what's there? A sign: "End of universe, please turn back".
Maybe its curved? But even a curve has an inside and an outside.
Ahhhh, the wonders of the universe. Now, where did I leave my car keys...
My theory: they are as many universes as are atoms...more or less that is. Just like atoms sit next to each other, so do universes. Tomorrow, on my lunch break I will prove it mathematically ;)
Marshall
And while we're at it. When you get to the "end of the universe", what's there? A sign: "End of universe, please turn back".
You'll see a restaurant. Just don't take anything that says "Disaster Area" on it.
(Admit it, you were asking for that one). ;)
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Maybe Professor Fanrsworth put it in a box?
It says "caution, proceed at your own risk, bridge out ahead!"...KF
It means we need to revise how we calculate both the gas mass and the total mass.
Ok, so everytime the mass seems to differ, we need to revise the formulas.
By studying the universe can we save ourselves, if something should come up? Can somebody englighten us, as interesting as it seems, why we need the study of the universe without using all the vague terms?
[edited by: Habtom at 11:16 am (utc) on Nov. 6, 2007]
Some years ago I started collecting dark matter and always hoped nobody would notice. I stuffed it into the kennel in my backyard and some day in March that stuff turned into a black hole. The perfect instrument to get rid off weed and rotten wood (and all the other garden junk). Around that time our neighbours began occasionally to complain about the sun looking like a funny arc in unfamiliar colors but we could always blame it on the weather. That random stuff inside their homes sticked to the walls facing our backyard wasn't really our problem.
But now the event horizon starts crossing our bedroom and we feel terribly stretched each morning. The permanent headaches are a bit inconvenient and maybe it's time to give it back. At least as they found out that it's missing. No - I will give them a call the next days so they can come along and pick it up.
My future brother-in-law is at Princeton [...]. They use a particle accelerator to look for it in Italy.
Let him point their instrument to northern Germany, right behind our house - it should be pretty distinguishable for a particle accelerator. But please tell him to do that during daytime and to be quiet as our neighbours are already a bit upset.
BTW: We don't hide it, it's simply dark. Very dark.
Just give it back;
Doesn't matter who has it, as long as it exists, the universe would still have the same mass.
I wonder if they've remembered that light also has a mass?
They use a particle accelerator to look for it in Italy
How do they know the Italians have got it? :D
When you get to the "end of the universe",
Here's my theory:
The universe is apparently getting larger (although it seems lighter). To get larger, and infact to calculate the mass of the universe, it must have a defined size. To have a defined size it must be an object. To be an object, it must be somewhere.
Also, what happens to all the light that escapes our universe? If it doesn't go anywhere then where is it? If gravity pulls it round in a huge arc and back into the universe, why doesn't it look like we're inside a giant mirrorball? If it is destroyed, then by what? Something exterior to the universe (again with the being somewhere argument).
When will Google own up to losing data and now bits of the universe?
I did not realize what I had was so important until I started reading about how many people missed it. So the good news is, I decided to sell it.
Feel free to bid on it at ebay.
All donations will go to the purchase of a couple paperclips I've had my eye on for awhile.
- ice
- water
- vapour
Does the same volume have the same mass?
