Shhh! Dark Energy found...

[Vincent]

I remember reading a while back about all this Dark Matter that was supposed to exist, but no one could prove it.  It was looking increasingly unlikely that it didn't exist or if it did it was a much smaller amount than originally thought.  Which in turn would screw up quite a lot of science :-D

Maybe this is the first step to proving that it does exist.

I'll try and dig out that article over the weekend, might've been in an issue of Focue, New Scientist or that other sciency journal Scientific American.

[edit] Wayne - love the avatar :kitty:

[Vincent]

KennyR wrote:
It's probably the other way around, that they've screwed up a lot of science in refusing to believe in it.

Nope, it was that they thought it did exist, but they couldn't prove it.  It was the first time I'd heard of Dark Matter in a long time, so I kinda remembered the main jist of it :-)

[Vincent]

blobrana wrote:
But it was Dark Energy , not Dark Matter, that they think the`ve found...

Yes, but.....

cosmic recipe: 4 percent ordinary matter, 23 percent dark matter, and 73 percent dark energy.

That's why I started talking about it :-)