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- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -1/+8NASA also working on CAWK observatory.
- tbhurst, on 11/23/2008, -1/+8I guess the DOE hopes that they can somehow harness the energy responsible for an expanding universe and package it for the utilities to sell to us. I'm cool with that.
- sbernhardt, on 11/23/2008, -2/+8This is stuff you can find out if you are curious, you know.
- Zervaman, on 11/23/2008, -1/+6Gee, I've never *seen* gravity either.
But I can observe how gravity affects what I can see.
Get it? - Dougman82, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4Gentlemen, we are dealing with someone here who has absolutely no life...
How do you kill that which has no life? - Mujokan, on 11/23/2008, -1/+5Dark energy doesn't have anything to do with dark matter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy
- MxM111, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3Yeah, I was puzzled why DOE is part of this as well. I mean, apart from the word "energy" those things hardly have any commonalities...
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3Thank You Mr. 300-Avatar
I am sure the management of NASA must be shutting the whole thing down after this. - Mujokan, on 11/24/2008, -0/+2There is a debate about where dark energy stops and curvature starts, and whether getting the right results for curvature could eliminate the need for dark energy, e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro--ph/0702670
- idontlikeyou2, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/patricia_burcha ...
An interesting a talk about dark energy and matter
Other topic on space at http://www.ted.com/index.php/themes/peering_into_s ... if anyone is interested - sbernhardt, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=0 ...
- pjosemroy, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Expeditions aimed at finding a solution for the whole human race has to be a collective effort, thus one can avoid speculations of any theory and also the onus of expenditure wholly on NASA.
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Sounds like they are building an observatory for the blind, but I wish them luck in finding something we didn't know before.
- Remelox, on 11/26/2008, -0/+1How do you build an observatory out dark energy. I'd believe the headline more if it said NASA Developing Dark Matter Observatory to be Powered by Dark Energy.
- Mujokan, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2I would not be the least bit surprised if "dark energy" turned out to be due to cosmic curvature, plus shortcomings in General Relativity. I doubt it is some "exotic" form of energy, unless you define cosmic curvature as potential energy, or something.
- AFelsinger, on 11/23/2008, -4/+5How does one even begin observing something that can't be seen?
- johanm, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Is dark energy what comes out of a GOP convention?
- urbano35, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Voldemort would be pleased.
- CrushThemTorg, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1NASA develops new setting for bad existentialist sci-fi movie.
- overridemymind, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Zero-point energy FTW. lol.
I think DOE would be interested in developing research centers to figure out how to harness the energy, though. - fabkebab, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1I think it would be cool to be able to say to a girl in a bar that you worked as a "dark energy watcher"
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1Oh, so "Dark Energy/Matter" is this generation's "String Theory". Guess what? They are equally invalid. But everybody needs that grant money...sigh.
- jgubbe, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1WTF? Every Jedi already knows that the dark energy comes from good or bad emotions.
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1Many observatories are a) dark, and b) observe energy. What's so special about this one?
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1This one's really hard to make cheap jokes about. Someone help me out here. This is Digg, god damnit.
- fx666, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1I seems to me that you are confused about the cause and the effect-- dark energy, if it exists, causes the curvature, not vice verse.
- DifferentAngle, on 11/23/2008, -0/+0I cant see air, but I can feel wind.
- fx666, on 11/24/2008, -1/+1This time you are correct.
- openingsound, on 11/23/2008, -2/+1mashed potatoes
- fx666, on 11/23/2008, -2/+1Why would the Department of Energy be interested in a hypothetical source of energy that it cannot possibly use? This article is a garbage.
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -13/+2How can an observatory see anything when dark matter emits no energy, visible spectrum or not?
The best theory, which is not very good at all because it relies on more assumptions than facts, is that dark energy is thought to have a gravitational effect on other bodies in space. So, then this observatory will be looking at planets and stars and wondering why perhaps whole galaxies move in directions that they shouldn't?
Anyway, this whole dark matter thing came into existence as a necessary theory to help buttress the theory that the universe is expanding due to the Big Bang singularity "explosion" 15 billion years ago or so. It's like some of these scientists have to keep making up new theories to explain away the problems with older theories which all derived from this Big Bang idea. It seems quite desperate .
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