Wednesday, January 16, 2008

it's in here somewhere...


Cosmologists at the University of Durham have produced a map of the distribution of matter in the Universe.

The simulation took a supercomputer 11 days to produce and could help shed light on the nature of dark energy - a repulsive force thought to counteract gravity.

for dark matter, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

for dark energy, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

are you sure that isnt the air filter in my house.. i mean i know i should change it more regularly and all....'cause of all that dark matter in there...
xoxo