Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe
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apod.nasa.govPosted Oct 31, 2017, 9:24 AM UTC
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apod.nasa.govIt looks like a darker version of the observable universe. Are...are we dark matter?
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I think this would be one of the most underwhelming explanations if it were true
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Yep, it looks just like galaxy filaments. Maybe is it because that's where dark matter should be? I really don't know.
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Dark matter is governed by gravity so it should look relatively the same from that far of a distance. It just isn't governed by electroweak powers, so it doesn't clump together, it just passes right through itself and forms halos on a galaxy level.
Supposedly.
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This picture looks just like the place I found myself in when I 'broke through' on DMT, apart from the colors were inverted.
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Looks like the scourge from Mass Effect Andromeda. Little darker but quite similar.
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I honestly don't know why anybody pointed out the obvious. It's SPACE SPIDERS people, they created that crazy looking dimensional web.
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Soooooo burn the universe and all associated dimensions?
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Hot dark is normal neutrinos All others are more massive neutrino- based matter
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Looks like brain matter, maybe the universe is a thinking system...
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Dark Matter as gray matter.
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My thoughts exactly
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in this representation, what is in between the dark matter, there are blank spaces, is that matter we haven't discovered yet?
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This is a recoloration of a different picture of the universe
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What a trip. Interesting how it looks like a child's drawing, perhaps less developed human minds are closer and more connected with something primal that the simulation has also tapped into. Or maybe not.
To what degree does the simulation reflect something fundamental in reality? Not a lot to go on here, but fun to extrapolate possibilities -- regardless of how far fetched.
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Wasn't dark matter found to be gas in between galaxies that was hard to detect? I think this article explains the current speculation and evidence.
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No, that was just the missing baryonic (normal) matter that we thought existed but just couldn't find. Dark matter and dark energy have nothing to do with that.
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That's a common misconception about that story.
We've understood for a while that the mixture of mass sources in our Universe was about 69% dark energy, 26% dark matter (in the form of weakly interacting massive particles, like neutrinos but slower, trapped in orbits around galaxies/galaxy clusters), and the remaining 5% the familiar atomic (or "baryonic") matter. We've come to that same set of ratios from a very diverse set of observations, so there's been little reason to doubt it.
The problem has been actually the opposite of accounting for dark matter, it's been accounting for atomic matter. The atomic matter that we could observe directly (stars, planets, gas and dust clouds) didn't match up to that 5% that we expected, it was less, about half as much as expected. So either our observations and theories about the matter balance of the overall Universe were wrong or there was a lot of atomic matter that we simply weren't seeing, yet. As it turned out the 2nd theory was correct. There turned out to be crap-tons of atomic matter in diffuse gas clouds (or filaments) between galaxies and galaxy clusters, substantially closing the gap in our bookkeeping of mass throughout the Universe. That was the "missing mass" that was discovered recently, roughly 2% of the overall Universe's mass in bulk, but vastly less than the 26% of the Universe's mass we know to be made up of dark matter.
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That looks like something out of Stranger Things
I agree. It does look like the Upside Down.
I am voting bifrost
It looks like the human brain...
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Season 1 though. Two was ... not good.
My image viewing was greatly enhanced because I happened to be listening to this when I clicked the link.