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Published online 2 November 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.215
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Bursting dark energy's bubble
Theorist suggests mysterious force could be an 'artefact' of a void in space.
It has been called one of the greatest discoveries in modern cosmology, and most astronomers believe that it makes up more than two-thirds of the stuff in the Universe. Now one theorist is suggesting that dark energy might be little more than a mirage.
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(Submitted 2 Nov 2007 to www.submit2science.org.) The Bullet Collision: Light On Dark Matter? A. Back to the colliding Bullet cluster of galaxies http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/1031/1 The argument continues... B. Back to a note a year ago Direct proof of dark matter? http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/aug/HQ_06297_CHANDRA_Dark_Matter.html Notes 28 Aug 2006 http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1&p=268 Without background knowledge about the subject, but with plain common sense, this is what I see in and conclude from the processed image of the event: - In order to collide the two clusters (moving in the same spatial course/direction due to universal expansion) must have been moving at different moving rates due to differing cluster's mass and therefore acceleration values. - As the collision progresses the two (most probably) hydrogenous clusters' atmospheres press against each other. - Each of the two separate clusters' atmospheres is deformed and displaced, in extent and in shape and characteristics depending on the size of its parent cluster and on the characteristics of its H atmosphere and on the events of the evolution of the 'go-through merger' of the clusters. - If E of the Universe = the sum of all values of m(1+D), where D is the Distance of m from Big Bang point and the sum is of all spatial values of D from D=0 to D=selected value, then, following Newton (1) gravity is decreased when mass is decreased and (2) acceleration of a body is given by dividing the force acting upon it by its mass. By plain common sense the combination of those two 'laws' may explain the accelerating cosmic expansion of galaxy clusters and the 'laws' that drive it, based on the above E/ m/ D relationship...and may explain the Bullet collision... Dov Henis
This whole creation is a journey from zero to infinity (zero- space - energy- matter -infinity) and vice versa. The density of zero is zero and that of infinity is infinity. The dark energy is unoccupied live space (constructive) and responsible for expansion of our universe in a controlled and balanced manner.