How Does The Universe Work?

[Grandiagod]

Re: How Does The Universe Work?

Wait isn't dark matter just the opposite of matter? So say when you drop dark matter it would fall up instead of down and all that.

[aperson]

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But maybe thats why there is global warming as well.

Oh my god, you were doing bad until here then it just got hilarious.

[talisman]

Re: How Does The Universe Work?

reach.... ok consider the electromagnetic force. We know the force carrier. (the photon). The weak force. We know the force carriers (W and Z bosons... I think). Pretty sure we know the carriers for the strong force as well. But we have no clue what the force carrier for gravity. A graviton has been proposed, but hasn't been observed. Therefore, as far as we know, we have no idea how gravity REALLY works. We know what gravity does, but not how it does it. That's what I'm saying.

(Higgs boson = mass which is obviously closely related with gravity, why I brought it up).

EDIT: dark matter is any matter with a very low albedo but some serious mass... the opposite of matter is antimatter.

[Grandiagod]

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dark matter is any matter with a very low albedo but some serious mass... the opposite of matter is antimatter.

Antimatter, despite the name, is not the exact opposite of matter.

[talisman]

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well that's what it sounded like you were talking about...

[Grandiagod]

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well that's what it sounded like you were talking about...

Try dropping antimatter, it goes down. Dark matter is kind of hypothetical anyway.

[Reach]

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reach.... ok consider the electromagnetic force. We know the force carrier. (the photon). The weak force. We know the force carriers (W and Z bosons... I think). Pretty sure we know the carriers for the strong force as well. But we have no clue what the force carrier for gravity. A graviton has been proposed, but hasn't been observed. Therefore, as far as we know, we have no idea how gravity REALLY works. We know what gravity does, but not how it does it. That's what I'm saying.

(Higgs boson = mass which is obviously closely related with gravity, why I brought it up).

EDIT: dark matter is any matter with a very low albedo but some serious mass... the opposite of matter is antimatter.

I figured this is what you ment. However, your post was worded all wrong. You're telling me we didn't know WHY, which is practically irrelevant since it's impossible to know why. Watch thee words XD

And uh, I suppose there is always unanswered questions, so it's hard to say we know how anything REALLY works. But I get what you're saying, our understanding of gravity is extremely weak at this point, and yes, I agree completely. However, I think it's nice to atleast know what we currently know.

And we don't know what dark matter or energy is, honestly. Absolutely noone could tell you what it REALLY is ;p

[talisman]

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grandia as far as I know there's no matter that goes against gravity... gravity is always attractive, never repulsive.

[natetheffrer]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_matter

Hypothetical, but cool to read and not understand.

[mattyohh]

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I thought that the Higgs boson was only hypothetical.

[-Izzy-]

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Oh my god, you were doing bad until here then it just got hilarious.

Thank you. I try very hard. We should do it sometime ap.

[dummyman]

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There is a facility where the goverment makes anti-matter. They showed it on the discovery channel. (I think that is what channel it was.)

[falconsfan14]

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Ok, so I'm learning about The Universe in Science class right now. I understand that our Solar System is part of the Milky Way Galaxy. That we are no more than a small speck in the entire galaxy. So it got me thinking.....what does the galaxy revolve around? A larger star? A black hole? Then, what does that star revolve around? Is it possible that our galaxy is no more than just a small speck in The Universe? Could that mean our galaxy is just a small speck inside another galaxy which is just a small speck inside another galaxy and so on and so forth?

Another thing I'm wondering is what creates gravity. The larger the mass in space the more gravity. So what creates this pull and why does it pull inward to the planet? The Universe amazes me.

Answers? Suggestions? Theories?

Nothing, we are moving outward, and im assuming the thing that created the universe stayed in the same spot.

[Moogy]

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Antimatter, despite the name, is not the exact opposite of matter.

[Kilgamayan]

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Pssh, Geno. They should man up and beat Culex with Mallow.