Green | December 25, 2008 | 8 comments

Dark energy

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Physicists can't see it and don't know much about what it is, but dark energy makes up 70 percent of the universe. Meet one of the country's leading scientists trying to understand dark energy and the role it plays in causing our universe to expand.
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8 comments // Dark energy

  • siddhartha1979
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    • science is great, i dig it, but it can contradict itself when it gets down to the fine print like "Where did the energy come from, why is there a difference between positive charge and negative, if there is enough mass in the universe to stop the expansion and collapse it on itself, and if so how many universes have there been, but where did the first one come from? WHO, WHAT, WHERE IS THE ORIGINAL ENERGY? that is the question science can never answer. believe me, im not pimping religion i just call it like i see it. The original energy is god, not the christian one although so many religions have tried to explain it in their own way

    • 3 years ago
  • tbowman131
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    • siddhartha1979:

      you've hit on one of the biggest misconceptions the lay-person has about science. it doesn't try to answer the question "why?" but rather the question "how?"

      however, you should look into quantum physics about your question of where the original energy came from. on the quantum scale, there are quantum fluctuations that create particles all of the time out of nothing. as long as the particles created cancel each other out, it's not only possible, but probable. so there you have it, the universe could have literally popped out of nowhere.

      now, if the expanding and contracting theory about the universe is correct, it's impossible to know what happened before the birth of our current universe because the "laws" of physics break down at a singularity. therefore, no information could have been preserved or transmitted to the "new" universe...

      science is far stranger than fiction!

    • 3 years ago
  • pjacobs51
  • justaslost
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    • This is what happens when you're cock sure that what you know now is right - and even though you know that isn't right and you haven't figured it all out yet, you'll use these same wrong tools to try and make it all work out.

      They did that before, the earth was flat, the sun obviously went around it; and as long as they all agreed, then they knew they were on the right track.
      Right? I mean ain't that right, guys?

    • 3 years ago
  • tbowman131
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