In ‘Dark Energy,’ Cosmic Humility

The universe is accelerating. A mysterious energy is pushing apart space itself, like a crazed toddler blowing up the cosmic balloon.

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  • Posted By: johndalmas @ 03/26/2008 8:17:29 PM

    I love it! I have no problem with apparent inconsistencies between science and religion-- both exist--but science does seem to provide reality with apparent structure, and pry-points, so to speak, for evaluating and expanding our concepts. Which by the nature of our species, will be explored. However, reality may be a lot "finer grained" than we know, and we tailless primates may (let's hope not, but may) lack the equipment to figure it out.
    johndalmas

  • Posted By: budgetwizard @ 03/25/2008 6:13:45 AM

    what is the weight of a galactic shadow? How much does one galactic particle induce/reduce/excite another galactic particle of differing event horizons? If information cannot travel faster than the speed of light, then surely there is a supreme being of this truth. I believe this is the pointlessness of asking the pointless. Unfortunately modern science implies that all can be reduced, except the reducer??? I wonder.

  • Posted By: MOCFUJITA @ 01/17/2008 8:52:50 AM

    The Law of Universal Gravitation and Separation

    First of all, I would like to present this fundamental working hypothesis. It is the universal force which unifies gravity and separator into one. No one ever knows about the separator force. So now, I give a definition of the law of universal separation at first.

    Fs = - Sp Ea Eb / r^2 F ; the separation force
    Ea ; Energy which belongs to the point a
    Eb ; Energy which belongs to the point b
    r ; the distance between a and b
    Sp ; the separation constant
    This force will not be detected on the Earth. It can be negligible even in the solar system. But it will work in the galactic scale.
    Next step is to unify Gravitation and Separation into one law.

    Fg = G Ma Mb / r^2 -----------------Then,
    Fg+s = G Ma Mb / r^2 - Sp Ea Eb / r^2


    And assume that Sp = G / c^4, because E = mc^2.

    Fg+s = G Ma Mb / r^2 - (G / c^4) Ea Eb / r^2

    One step forward by using the complex number formula.

    F = G ( Ma + i Ea / c^2 ) ( Mb + i Eb / c^2 ) / r^2
    F = G Ma Mb / r^ - (G / c^4) Ea Eb / r^2 + i ( G Ea Mb / ( r^2 c^2 ) + G Ma Eb / ( r^2 c^2 ))
    The real part is Re( F ) = Fg+s, but I don't know how to deal with the imaginary part ; Im( F ) = G Ea Mb / ( r^2 c^2 ) + G Ma Eb / ( r^2 c^2 ).

    So an existing substance is to be described as S = M + i E / c^2 .
    In a certain independent area, if M + E / c^2 = constant ( in other words when M decreases by ??M, E will increases by ??E = ??M c^2 ), then abs( S ) = will be minimum when M = E / c^2, because abs( S ) = root( M^2 + E^2 / c^4 ).
    Iori Fujita

  • Posted By: hypermaniac @ 01/13/2008 12:54:38 PM

    PS:
    however, the concept of "leaking gravity" is quite intriguing and should be explored.

    this concept would require that gravity should be a constnt force in the universe, not something "created" or "generate" by a cosmic body such as a planet or a star.

    too much matter would certainly "push" the pre-existing gravity out of our finite universe resulting in a "leak"

    imagine, if you would, placing a marble or two into a glas filled with water. the glas, a loose analogy for our universe, is finite and thus the water, a loose analogy for gravity, will spill out.

    naturally, the water - gravity - would exert pressure on the marble - planet, star - therefore rendering gravity a "push" rather than a "pull" force

  • Posted By: hypermaniac @ 01/13/2008 12:40:29 PM

    since we do not know what lies beyond our sphere of knowledge, it would be more precise to state that what is accelerating is that part of the universe which we "know".

    for all we know, and unbeknownst to us, other areas of our universe are contracting in order to absorb our area's acceleration.

    to assume otherwise is to assume that the universe is infinite.

    the concept of a "multiple-universe" is just that: a concept requiring an infinite "super-universe". the concept of an infinite "super universe" , to use one of the phrases in the article, strains credulity.

    notice tere are a lot of assumptions not just in the above statements but in the theories and concepts of the scientists as well. the tell-tale signs of assumptions are made obvious by the uses of words and/or phrases such as: "assumption that the universe is decelerating" - "Either way, they assumed" - "new appreciation" - "The best bet for the source" - "might have been right" - "anyone's guess" - "entertaining that possibility" - "could have" - "would have" - and, of course, the "If".

    however, the concept of "leaking gravity" is quite intriguing and should be explored.

  • Posted By: djonesss @ 01/13/2008 4:55:01 AM

    If my wife's vagina had that much gravity/energy, then it I got within her Schwarzild Radius my "Utility Pole" would get sucked in, never to be seen again, in this universe!

  • Posted By: MOCFUJITA @ 01/01/2008 7:38:30 PM

    I sent a E-mail to Lisa Randall, saying "You are talking about 5-dimension universe. And I am talking about the two or one dimensional galaxy."

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    Dear Professor Lisa Randall,

    The year 2008 should be the special year of getting back a pure and light space of our universe for ourselves. At present the space has gotten darker with dark matter and dark energy, which almost all the scientists agree with. Let's retrieve the universe where lights and matters, including human being, can live together beautifully without "dark" things.

    My scheme is as follows.
    1 --- To justify the theory "The light bends the gravity."
    2 --- To justify the theory "The matter produces the gravity field, and the energy of emission produces the separation field."

    Let's change the Einstein field equation a bit.
    Einstein original Rab - 1/2 * Rgab = 8paiG/c^4 * Tab
    Modified version Rab - 1/2 * Rgab = 8paiG/c^4 * (Tmab -Teab)
    or Rab - 1/2 * Rgab = 8paiG/c^4 * (Tmab + i*Teab)
    Here: Tmab is the stress tensor by matter
    Teab is the energy tensor by emission energy
    Then this should be the Modified Einstein Field Equation (MEFE).


    My predictions of the year 2008 are as follows.

    For the theme "The light bends the gravity.";
    The prediction is "the discovery of a jet from a certain blackhole without any accompanying acceleration disk".

    The uneven-distribution of the emission energy with its separation force inside a blackhole in its two poles areas will drill the gravity potential and open two exits through which jets burst out.
    http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/galaxy/galaxy01.html


    For the next theme "The matter produces the gravity field, and the energy of emission produces the separation field.";

    The prediction 1 is "the discovery of the separation force blue shift".
    By calculating all the emission energy produced by the nuclear reactions in a galaxy cluster through its history more than billions of years, the separation potential can be checked out. And then the reason why a lot of X-ray beams come from the surrounding area of the galaxy cluster is because photons are accelerated but can not run faster than c, then their frequencies are increasing to the X-ray level.

    The prediction 2 is "the discovery of the separation force concave lens".
    Voids as fossilized huge emission energy still have the separation potential and act as concave lens against the light from the backwards of them.

    Iori Fujita

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