The Dark Matter Universe

July 14th, 2007 by admin0

3D simulation map of the Lyman-Alpha Forest (1024,2048) from Dr. Adi Nusser.

Posted in 3D, All, Science, Space

Note: Image[s] are posted with the written permission of the artist on file.

27 Responses

1. Kobra
   July 15th, 2007 at 10:05 am

   Looks pretty, but it would be a lot better if there was some correlation to the real universe… perhaps in a side-by-side comparison.

2. fewafewafewa
   July 15th, 2007 at 10:15 am

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3. Kobra
   July 15th, 2007 at 10:20 am

   For a second I didn’t think my comment got posted, then I noticed it got collapsed into the right side. You might want to look into fixing that…

4. Kostakis
   July 15th, 2007 at 10:24 am

   it should have been spherical….

5. peepington
   July 15th, 2007 at 10:26 am

   that’s a pretty cool pic, but it could come along with a page or two of explanation or discussion into dark matter and wat the theory is trying to prove or solve

6. admin0
   July 15th, 2007 at 10:29 am

   #3, Yeah, sorry about that Kobra, it’s in the PHP. Kobra said:

   “correlation to the real universe… perhaps in a side-by-side comparison.”

   Check out the source link to Dr. Adi Nusser’s page above:
   http://physics.technion.ac.il/~adi/conf/TMRWEB/webpage.html

   He goes into practical detail there.

7. admin0
   July 15th, 2007 at 10:30 am

   #5 see #6. There’s a lot of info there.

8. jojomonkey
   July 15th, 2007 at 11:03 am

   why not link the actual site instead of a stupid blog. stop trying to get noticed.
   bastards.

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10. Aristillus
    July 15th, 2007 at 11:58 am

    So the universe is a cube actually, humm…

11. ggordon
    July 15th, 2007 at 12:44 pm

    Looks like the neural net of the brain

12. admin0
    July 15th, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    I think so too #11.

13. dark
    July 15th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    #11, #12:

    It doesn’t, actually. I’ll tell you why: the brain is wired up under certain patterns having to do with cell grouping. Different kinds of cells group differently, et cetera. In short, the brain’s clusters of neurons don’t look anything like these clusters. These are less regular in some ways, and also form no similar functional bodies.

    The similarities pretty much start and stop with the fact that there is a branching structure. With the scope of this image, you couldn’t tell if a brain-like topology were present without far greater resolution, but then there aren’t any brains of this scale, so we wouldn’t know what one would look like at the given scale and resolution.

14. admin0
    July 15th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    Good criticism #13. You’ve persuaded me.

15. astro
    July 15th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    Looks pretty, sure, but It should be sitting on the back of a Giant Turtle, for it to be accurate…

16. rhetoric
    July 15th, 2007 at 1:33 pm

    Scientific jargon aside, look at a section of the fractal that is your brain and tell me you don’t see a resemblance.

    http://www.ipmc.cnrs.fr/~duprat/neurophysiology/images/neuron2.jpg

    Sure looking at the entire fractal would look different, but that is how fractals work.

    This one is also one of my favorites:

    http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/neuron-galaxy.jpg

    The universe is a mind get over it.

17. Face
    July 15th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    Stop being friendly #14.

18. admin0
    July 15th, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    Sorry, can’t do that #17. I’m in too good a mood.

19. Wart
    July 15th, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    An explanation of Dark Matter under the pic would have been great.

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21. TV Online
    July 15th, 2007 at 10:38 pm

    Very interesting, I had to look it up on wiki to really understand what it was.

22. tyotyo
    July 16th, 2007 at 12:20 am

    Kostakis: Universe is not spherical… is infinite.

23. puttputt
    July 18th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    Wow, thanks! this changed my life. I can use it while traveling in the universe.

24. Mike
    July 19th, 2007 at 1:48 am

    The universe is square! I knew it!

25. a Fly on the Wall
    July 23rd, 2007 at 1:20 pm

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