New dark energy findings suggest Einstein's theory is dead-on

Orion, I don't engage in "religion bashing."I post numerous articles on a wide variety of subjects. Just because not everyone agrees with you does not make them stupid. Don't condescend to me with your "good to see you are learning" BS.

And no, I still don't believe in god. You can interpret science however you want to fit into your religious beliefs.

Also, we can "detect" dark matter by seeing it's influence on other things in the universe, that's what this whole article is about.

There aren't even words for how genius this man is. "Is" because his theories still astound us and are yet to be completely seen. Well, "seen" might not work in this example...

Deli it is good that you are showing true scientific articles instead of the usual religion bashing.

This is part of what I tried to explain to you in the other thread about science. I had mentioned dark matter and other theories that you claimed where untrue and unscientific. I hope you understand now more of what I had been trying to tell you.

It is good to see you learn the truth about science for once. I am a bit impressed that you are learning.

This theory proves that we cannot detect all matter and energy, some of it is undetectable like dark matter and dark energy, but we know it exists because of the gravity effect it has on nearby matter. This does not "prove" that dark matter and dark energy exist, but it does confirm a few theories about them. One cannot 100% prove any theory, but confirm that parts of it might be correct.

simply amazing. I believe dark energy is out there, just listen to the news that raids the airwaves. also, its dark at night, meaning if the sun is the only light, then there must be a whole lot of dark matter and energy out there.

The irony is, it's hard to imagine what we have yet to conceive possible.

Dark Matter has been hypothesized for nearly 2 decades...dark energy on the other hand is a whole nuther bird. Considering what was known and believed in physics in Einstein's magical publication year...1905? I don't recall the exact year that he drew up these theories as a patent clerk. So taking in the fat that he felt he had a massive roadblock type blunder was actually not a blunder at all, just a set of numbers that describe a situation that had not only never been thought of, but in itself dark matter and dark energy are elusive concepts that Im not sure that could have been fully conceived of in that era.

As far as dark energy consuming us....that is the sort of things that are eons away. Closer on the clock for us, is a collision with the Andromeda Galaxy, the suns expansion past Mars as it burns its helium and grows to consume more, than as helium is spent, it will use iron for nuclear reaction, and then it will shrink back, the 3rd thing that would pose a greater threat than dark energy , at least sooner, is that at the center of the Milky Way is an enourmous black hole, which will in time defeat the centrifugal force of galactic rotation and suck the galaxy right in.

Everything I just described begins in the 10s of millions of years from now. If you want to base the end of the earth theory on lottery odds, the Apophis Asteroid could slip thru just the right envelope and could strike us in 2029 it stands now as a 2.9%. Then, even if it misses us and passes between the Earth and Moon there is what is called a "gravitational keyhole" it has a 1 in 45,000 chance of passing through, which would put it on a direct collision course with us on April 13th 2036. If that doesn't happen Apophis has one last chance to smack us around. In 2037 it has a 1 in 12.5 million chance.

Wait i thought that if 1 atom of dark matter came into contact with 1 atom of matter that it would create a reaction that would make a nuclear blast look like a firecracker? And if there is over 5 times more dark matter in the universe then wouldnt the chances of that happening be idk really good? I guess i need to brush up on my astrophysics

Oh that was a bit off topic wast it. well for those of you who are concerned that you may be consumed by the scary dark matter. think of it as just what fills the space that looks empty kind of like air only it is what air floats in what the planets float in. if you look up from your computer right now you most likely see a lot of objects or walls or whatever surrounds you well dark matter, i would rather call eather is what is between you and whatever object you can see. well eather and air. and so you can see how there is much much more eather than any other kind of matter.

Is dark matter aether? and isn't Einstein a plagiarist? Im confused about the so called New Discovery. I am almost positive that Mr. Nikola Tesla came up with the aether (free energy) theory long before Einstein even picked up his plagiarist pencil.

if these figures are correct, is the 'dark energy' percentage growing? and what will happen when it consumes us? will we cease to exist, or will 'everything else bounce back to the 'center'?

Time to get your crowbars and your HEV suits, kids.

i think using the word "dark" to describe this matter and energy is misleading and counter-productive. the label only exists to try and help people understand these subjects more, although i could be wrong.

wow. that is just mindblowing. of course its not shocking at all that Einstein was correct, but when you really try to wrap your head around what it means, it's just flabbergasting.

This really is amazing. Just like Tesla before him, Einstein was WAY ahead of his time.

And it took the rest of us that much longer to figure it out. But at least it's no regarded longer a theory.

"dark energy" seems somewhat ominous, perhaps we should change the name. How about "special stuff"?

So most of the Universe is made up of something that we can't even directly perceive. I wonder if life also developed in the dark matter universe that can't perceive our light matter universe.

This only proves that, yet again, Einstein is an absolute genius.

Love this stuff .. dark energy, ooooooh! 75% of everything, thats a whole lot of nuttin or is it something .. I'm confused.

Their explanation sounds a bit like the blackhole in my finances - I know it dominates my universe but don't know exactly where it goes to.

Looks like he science news front Is quiet. Time to stir up some drama.

i saw something on this on "the universe" on the history channel last night...how the dark energy is what is causing the universe to expand exponentially

einstein's greatest blunder eh? he was smarter than even HE gave himself credit for

Dark matter has been talked about for a long time, in support of Einstein's General Relativity theory.

hey is that where 'God' lives?

Wow that's pretty crazy I was watching this on the history channel at 2pm yesterday...

I saw a National Geographic program about this subject. I guess any extraterrestrials better start making plans to visit our planet soon because the way the universe keeps expanding and galaxies keep drifting apart we may never come across any intelligent life out there to borrow money from to get us out of debt other than China. But seriously really cool in scientific discovery.

Hey that looks like my budget! 74% of all my cash goes into this mysterious "Dark Energy" making my debt expand and accelerate. That's the last time I loan Einstein money!

"his greatest blunder" is i think an appropriate phrase for what will eventually be found as truth. i am no intellectual by any means but i do think that eventually we will find that the rules we make are the only ones to apply and that our pool of knowledge is nothing more then a drop of dew on the tree of existence. but hooray for science!

mmmmm.... interesting, very interesting.