MetaFilter posts tagged with darkmatter and astronomy

Composition of the Universe

knave — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:19:07 -0800

A fascinating talk about the composition of the universe [Youtube, approx 1 hour], presented by Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist at CIT. [via] His talk is fast-paced and high level, but has enough detail to get the imagination fired up. Topics include ordinary matter, the standard model, dark matter, dark energy, string theory, supersymmetry, and the expanding universe. The presentation is extremely coherent and easy to follow, even for non-theoretical-physicists such as myself. Enjoy.

UniverseNewsFilter: Scientists claim to have detected dark matter

Kattullus — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:12:14 -0800

UniverseNewsFilter: Scientists claim to have detected dark matter! Here are NASA's press release, feature page and multimedia presentation. For an explanation what dark matter is, I refer you to this page. After all that excitement, you can sit down and work out how much dark matter is in the Milky Way.

Newtonian dynamics unmodified

kliuless — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:46:09 -0800

Good evidence that dark matter is for real.

holycola — Sat, 09 Feb 2002 23:53:45 -0800

It ain't so dark anymore. Dark matter seems poised to assume its place among those astronomical phenomena that were predicted to exist before being observed. The planet Neptune and black holes to mention two of them. The last 100 years have really been a boom time for astronomy, and they're not slowing down.