Cosmic Challenge Searches for Dark Energy Explanation

It continues baffle scientists and astronomers alike, as no one can prove that it exists, but it seems that it hast to exist. Dark energy, seemingly making up 75% of our universe’s matter, could possibly lead to Einstein’s law of gravity being wrong, but will definitely expand our understanding of the cosmos if we can explain it.

Now,38 scientists from 19 international institutions have started the GRavitational Lensing Accuracy Testing 2008 (GREAT08) PASCAL Challenge, an international competition challenging anyone interested to solve the dark energy/matter mystery.

It continues baffle scientists and astronomers alike, as no one can prove that it exists, but it seems that it hast to exist. Dark energy, seemingly making up 75% of our universe’s matter, could possibly lead to Einstein’s law of gravity being wrong, but will definitely expand our understanding of the cosmos if we can explain it.

Now,38 scientists from 19 international institutions have started the GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2008 (GREAT08) PASCAL Challenge, an international competition challenging anyone interested to solve the dark energy/matter mystery.

“The GREAT'08 PASCAL Challenge will help us answer the biggest question in cosmology today: what is the dark energy that seems to make up most of the universe?” asked Dr Sarah Bridle, UCL Physics and Astronomy. “We realised that solving our image processing problem doesn’t require knowledge of astronomy, so we’re reaching out to attract novel approaches from other disciplines.”

Bridle is leading the challenge alongside Professor John Shawe-Taylor, Director of the UCL Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning.

One of those methods that seem to have the greatest chance of providing a measure of answers is gravitational lensing. This is when objects are located through the gravitational distortions that affect the light that travels to Earth. Most often used to find planets too close into a star to be seen easily, gravitational lensing could also be used to detect intervening dark matter.

“Streetlamps appear distorted by the glass in your bathroom window and you could use the distortions to learn about the varying thickness of the glass,” says Bridle. “In the same way, we can learn about the distribution of the dark matter by looking at the shapes of distant galaxies.”

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Comments

[forrest noble]

According to the Pan Theory, Dark Matter does not function in the way that it is theorized to work, see pantheory.org, page 105, predictions 7 and 9.

The mystery which explains dark energy was long ago "predicted and copyrighted in the same theory. Observations which claim to prove dark energy instead generally prove another theory of relativity, pg. 97-102A pg. 104,105 prediction #3.

[Markenrode]

On the television show for The Elegant Universe Brian Greene discussed how the universe that we experience might be part of a higher-dimensional space. The extra dimensions predicted by string theory might then be better described of as being all around us, rather than as too small to see. If this is so, then perhaps there is a higher form of matter and energy inhabiting this higher-dimensional space - the so-called dark matter and dark energy that scientists are searching for. This would explain why we do not see this stuff, because it resides on a different plane of existence altogether.

[Andrew Iraci]

If the aether were reinstated it would account for all the "dark matter" of the universe.

Too bad the mistaken notion that the aether is motionless; Einstein's misinterpretion of the Michelson-Morley null-result; his photon theory; and, the mistaken notion that lightwaves must travel transversely have made modern physicists reject the aether, and even *abhor* it as a concept.

Visit my website. I gave a *full* description of why the aether can reinstated. Based on just the aether I fully explain gravity, light, atoms, and magnetism.