dark matter tech

[Michael Herman]

hi all, this from the bbc, via my weblog today.
 http://www.globalchicago.net   happy weekend.  m


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Friday, July 18, 2003

Dark Matter Technology

BBC reporting... <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3077449.stm>
Astronomers have made a 'mass map' of one of the most massive structures
in the Universe, showing how much more there is to it than glowing stars
and gas. The object is a distant cluster of galaxies that contains 'dark
matter,' the unknown component that comprises most of the mass of the
Universe. The map shows it is distributed in much the same way as are
the visible stars.


Hubble photos show dark matter on the left
in blue and just stars on the right, undistorted.

Clusters of galaxies are the largest stable systems in the Universe.
They contain not only stars, gas and dust but something else as well.
Astronomers do not know what that something is. They know it is there
because they can see the effect its gravity has on the motions of stars
and galaxies, but because they have never seen this 'dark matter' they
do not know what it is.

Dark matter makes up about 80-85% of the matter in the Universe. Many
types of objects are suspected ranging from dead stars to hoards of
sub-atomic particles.

Makes me wonder if OpenSpaceTech
<http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceTech> wouldn't be
more aptly named "DarkMatterTech" since it seems to be where we explore
and cut through the things that blur and distort clarity and movement in
organization.



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Michael Herman
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