Has Jupiter been leading science astray?
In 1998 astronomers had a bit of a shock when it was revealed that our universe was not behaving as it ought. They had believed that since the Big Bang hurled our universe into existence, its expansion must, inevitably, have been gradually slowing down. It came as no small surprise then when it was revealed that its expansion was actually accelerating and that we seem to be missing some 96 per cent of its matter.
To explain this curiosity, cosmologists summoned up a mysterious, invisible and undetectable force, called ‘dark energy’, and a barely detectable, invisible material called ‘dark matter’ (see next page). And everyone lived happily ever after (except for those who disagreed and thought it was all just imaginary bunkum). Until now.
One astrophysicist (who fits into the bracketed category above) had taken a second look at the data from one of the telescopes used to establish the existence of these dark materials – the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). WMAP detects the radiation afterglow of the Big Bang and creates a temperature map of the universe as it appeared just 380,000 years after its birth. Since the temperature fluctuations it detects are so small, scientists use Jupiter’s microwave emissions to calibrate the data and cancel out any instrument distortions.
For the past three years, Tom Shanks, of the University of Durham, has been examining these maps and recalibrated the data using distant microwave-emitting galaxies that appear in the WMAP data itself. He found that, using these new sources, the map of this background radiation contained far fewer fluctuations and was much smoother. Since the size of these fluctuations is key in calculating the existence of dark matter and dark energy, the findings could eliminate the universe’s dark side altogether. It could also mean that the entire mathematical framework currently used to explain the universe – the Standard Model – is wrong and science could have been travelling down a false path for quite some time.
Fortunately WMAP’s successor, Europe’s Planck spacecraft, has already begun creating a new, far more detailed map of the cosmic background radiation (CMB), which should help shed some light on the universe’s dark side.
How science became seduced by the dark side
Bang goes the theory
At the beginning of the 20th century astronomers thought they had the universe figured out – it had always been just where it was and was immutable and unchanging. Then Einstein did some calculations that showed him the universe ought to be collapsing under the force of gravitational attraction. He didn’t like this much so he inserted an extra equation called the ‘cosmological constant’ (a force that opposes the force of gravity) and made the universe nice and static again.Part of our universe is missing
Then, in 1987, observations of supernovae revealed an inconvenient truth – far from slowing down, the expansion of the universe was actually accelerating.
Furthermore, to rub salt into the wound, it was revealed that there just not enough matter (stars, galaxies and cosmic dust) in the universe to account for its observable properties.
Some of this missing matter (22 per cent of it) was attributed to so-called ‘dark matter’ which, although unobservable directly, can be detected by its gravitational effect on the matter that we can see.
Not all wimps fear the dark
Old dog with a new trick
Put simply, dark energy is the cost of having space – in that a volume of space must possess an intrinsic energy – and, since Einstein proved that energy and mass are related (E = mc2 ), then that energy must have a gravitational effect which, in this case, is a repellent effect – dark energy pushes galaxies apart. It would also account for the universe’s missing mass.
Neither but aether
In 2008, physicist HongSheng Zhao, resurrected the aether and called it ‘dark fluid’. Zhao argues that neither dark matter or dark energy really exist, but that they are actually just an undiscovered facet of gravity that operates at very large scales. He says that the fabric of space acts like a fluid, which can coagulate, compress or expand. Where there is matter, the fluid slows down and coagulates - amplifying gravity and giving the illusion of the presence of a mysterious dark matter-like material.
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Delusion
it is inherently non scientific to think you have all the answers.What we know now will be laughed at in one hundred years. This is the very nature of evolution. Peace
It ain't gravity, it's
It ain't gravity, it's plasma.
Misjudgements by Newton --published in ASTRONOMY.NET in year 20
IT IS NOT CORRECT THAT DR.ZHAO SAID ETHER AS DARK ENERGY. PLEASE READ --MISJUDGEMENTS BY NEWTON --PUBLISHED IN ASTRONOMY.NET IN YEAR 2002 AND LINKS AVAILABLE IN --durgadas datta facebook--and ETHER=GRAVITY=DARK ENERGY THEORY OF GRAVITOETHERTONS ..AND BALLOON INSIDE BALLOON THEORY OF MATTER AND ANTIMATTER ON OPPOSITE ENTROPY PATH PUBLISHED AND COPIES SENT TO ALL SCIENTISTS WHERE DURGADAS DATTA EXPLAINED WHY AND HOW ETHER IS DARK ENERGY ETC. DR.ZHAO ALSO GOT COPIES OF THE THEORIES AND IT IS NOT HONOURABLE TO PUBLISH THE THEORIES OF DURGADAS DATTA IN HIS NAME.
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Dark matter gets an even bigger question mark
For the first time, Dark Matter in the Sun has been clearly defined in the following peer reviewed paper. Uranium fission fragments left over on the Sun constitute Dark Matter. Therefore, the dark matter can be detected through gamma rays, X-rays or beta particles, according to the following paper. Radioisotope or X-ray source emit two more successive radiations following gamma, X-ray or beta particle: (1) Bharat radiation (predicted) with energy higher than that of UV at eV level, and (2) UV dominant optical emission. The paper also explains how a previously unknown atomic phenomenon causes Bharat radiation, which in turn causes UV dominant optical emission from within an excited atom of these sources. Dark Radiation emitted by dark matter in the Sun has been attributed to Bharat radiation. Tritium is an exception that it will emit only the Bharat radiation but not UV dominant optical emission. X-ray sources can be radioisotopes that emit predominantly characteristic X-rays.
M.A. Padmanabha Rao,
UV dominant optical emission newly detected from radioisotopes and XRF sources,
Brazilian Journal of Physics, Vol.40, no.1, March 2010.
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0103-97332010000100007&script=sci_a...
ABSTRACT
The current paper reports first and definite experimental evidence for gamma-, X-, or beta radiation causing UV dominant optical radiation from (1) radiochemicals such as 131-I; (2) XRF sources such as Rb XRF source present as salts; and (3) metal sources such as 57-Co, and Cu XRF sources. Due to low quantum yield a need arose to develop two techniques with narrow band optical filters, and sheet polarizers that helped in the successful detection of optical radiation. The metal 57-Co spectrum observed at room temperature hinted that it could be optical emission from excited 57-Co atoms by a previously unknown phenomenon. In order to explain UV emission, it was predicted that some eV energies higher than that of UV, termed temporarily as Bharat radiation are generated within the excited atom, while gamma-, X-, and beta passes through core-Coulomb field. In turn, the Bharat energy internally produced within the excited atom causes UV dominant high-energy spectrum by valence excitation. As excited atoms become free from surrounding unexcited atoms by valence excitation, room temperature atomic spectra of solid radioisotopes and XRF sources became a possibility. It implies existence of temporary atomic state of solids. The experimental evidence that gamma-, X-, and beta radiations causing UV dominant optical emission from within excited atoms of radioisotopes suggests the possibility for solar gamma-, X-, and ß radiations causing EUV by the atomic phenomenon described here.
M.A. Padmanabha Rao, PhD
Former Professor of Medical Physics, New Delhi, India
raomap@yahoo.com
GRAVITOETHERTONS.
Durgadas Datta published a few papers in ASTRONOMY.NET in year 2002 where he said ETHER is dark energy and it is our space consisting of gravitoethertons. We live in gravitoethertons soup swirlig and whirling as fish live in water. Now evidence of this new particle has been found in FERMI LAB experiments. He also predicted that our universe is surrounded by antimatter universe on opposite entropy path and producing gravitoethertons at common boundary by annihilation of matter and antimatter and injected into our universe as dark energy or ether. That is why our universe is endowed with laws and gravity and expanding with acceleration . Please read the theories of durgadas datta --available in google searching--durgadas datta --durgadas datta facebook.
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