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| From | jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run |
| Date | 2015-10-30 05:18 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <37bbgc-los.ln1@mail.specsol.com> (permalink) |
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote: > Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological > simulations ever run >> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-birth-universe-largest-cosmological-simulations.html Anyone can get an RSS feed from this site if they want the latest updates; there is no need for you to cut and paste this to a discussion group without any comments. > >> Researchers are sifting through an avalanche of data produced by one >> of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed, led by >> scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National >> Laboratory. >> >> The simulation, run on the Titan supercomputer at DOE's Oak Ridge >> National Laboratory, modeled the evolution of the universe from just >> 50 million years after the Big Bang to the present day?from its >> earliest infancy to its current adulthood. Over the course of 13.8 >> billion years, the matter in the universe clumped together to form >> galaxies, stars and planets; but we're not sure precisely how. >> >> These kinds of simulations help scientists understand dark energy, a >> form of energy that affects the expansion rate of the universe, >> including the distribution of galaxies, composed of ordinary matter, >> as well as dark matter, a mysterious kind of matter that no >> instrument has directly measured so far. >> >> Intensive sky surveys with powerful telescopes, like the Sloan >> Digital Sky Survey and the new, more detailed Dark Energy Survey, >> show scientists where galaxies and stars were when their light was >> first emitted. And surveys of the Cosmic Microwave Background, light >> remaining from when the universe was only 300,000 years old, show us >> how the universe began?"very uniform, with matter clumping together >> over time," said Katrin Heitmann, an Argonne physicist who led the >> simulation. >> >> The simulation fills in the temporal gap to show how the universe >> might have evolved in between: "Gravity acts on the dark matter, >> which begins to clump more and more, and in the clumps, galaxies >> form," said Heitmann. > Where is your discussion you claim to embrace, spamming shit head? -- Jim Pennino
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Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 19:13 -0500
Re: Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-30 05:18 +0000
Re: Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 08:15 -0500
Re: Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-30 17:03 +0000
Re: Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run gyansorova@gmail.com - 2015-10-30 14:36 -0700
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