That 74% of what makes up everything in the Universe that we can't even see?

[Avatard]

That would, in fact, be dark energy...and Einstein was indeed correct (dark matter accounts for another 22%). Ordinary matter - gas, stars, planets and galaxies - makes up just 4%. That means we're really only really keenly aware of about 4% of the Universe.

Talk about being in the dark...

New method 'confirms dark energy'. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13462926)

[Particle Man]

Unless you read Douglas Adams: then you find out that it's really made up of all the packing material used to pack all the fancy scientific instruments used to measure what's in the universe when they were new...

[Homeslice]

1) how can "energy" have mass?
2) why would the "dark" shit outweigh the "non-dark" shit?

[anthonyk]

1) It doesn't

2) That's a very non-dark-centric point of view :lol:

[fujimoh]

1) how can "energy" have mass?
2) why would the "dark" shit outweigh the "non-dark" shit?

energy, like light and air have mass. energy is electron flow, and electrons have mass.

Remember Einstein's theory E=MC(2)? The energy equals the mass times the constant(speed of light) squared?

[Avatard]

Think of it like this (scale helps):

If the Nucleus of an atom were the size of a basketball, the electrons would be orbiting eight miles away. So what's in between? Can't be fucking nothing. Has to be fucking something.

That something has to have mass. That something makes up most of what we know as fucking EVERYTHING, and yet we are blissfully unaware of it to the point that we're STILL trying to figure out exactly WTF it even is.

We are SO without a fucking clue still.

[Homeslice]

If the Nucleus of an atom were the size of a basketball, the electrons would be orbiting eight miles away. So what's in between? Can't be fucking nothing.


Why not?

[Avatard]

IIRC, adding the weight of the nucleus and electrons, you still come up short in atomic weight. It's something. We just don't know yet what.

[Avatard]

Someone who actually knows WTF they're talking about, feel free to join in here...

I'm a little skinny on this.

[shmike]

Someone who actually knows WTF they're talking about, feel free to join in here...

I'm a little skinny on this.

The whole bit is funny but your question in answered beginning at 7:40.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2ZsoYWwJA

[Avatard]

Yeah, I actually had a little flash of Louis' bit there...

[EpyonXero]

Not related but I just saw this one today and its great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnXtGINeDK0

[Avatard]

[Sigh]Women.

The other thing man will never fucking understand about the Universe.

[Captain Morgan]

The whole bit is funny but your question in answered beginning at 7:40.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2ZsoYWwJA

:lol My stomach hurts from laughing at that shit. The hide-and-seek is so damn true, then he got to the why?, why?, why? and I almost cried.

[anthonyk]

Holy shit that bit about kids was funny.

And apparently my physics classes are obsolete. Mass and energy are pretty much just different names for the same thing (and neither = "matter").

[njchopper87]

I went over this stuff in Astronomy a little over a year ago. It's too bad I sold my book. There were some very useful analogies in there and I could have posted some background information. It's interesting to hear what they (Astrophysicists and the like) have to say.

lol @ those vids

[Kaneman]

Unless you read Douglas Adams: then you find out that it's really made up of all the packing material used to pack all the fancy scientific instruments used to measure what's in the universe when they were new...

:lol: Love that guy!

[Papa_Complex]

All of that "empty" space, between astronomical bodies, isn't empty. If there's just one hydrogen atom, in a cubic kilometre of space, then how would you ever be able to see it?