Upcoming announcement: dark matter discovery

[KimB]

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/aug/HQ_M06128_dark_matter.html

NASA Announces Dark Matter Discovery

Astronomers who used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 21, to announce how dark and normal matter have been forced apart in an extraordinarily energetic collision.

What is this? Well, it's probably related to this discovery:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week238.html

This is a rather exciting discovery, as it is finally conclusive evidence, I believe, for the existence of dark matter.

 

[epicstruggle]

Cool. Where was it hiding?

 

[KimB]

Around normal matter Forcing normal matter and dark matter apart through a collision between two galaxy clusters allows scientist to test what the long-range gravitational attraction of each is.

 

[_xxx_]

Cool. Where was it hiding?

In the dark, of course!

 

[sytaylor]

My, its sneaky!

 

[rwolf]

Around normal matter Forcing normal matter and dark matter apart through a collision between two galaxy clusters allows scientist to test what the long-range gravitational attraction of each is.

So how long until I have anti-gravity in my car?

 

[KimB]

They're being made in the past. Unfortunately, you'll need a time travel machine to go back and buy one (they're being snatched up like hot cakes by time travelers).

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Then what happens when all the dark matter runs out?
Will we all die?

 

[KimB]

Well, the NASA announcement is up, and they've got some cool animations and stuff:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/index.html