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Print this page Universe accelerating outwards By Michael Field in Auckland 16dec02 A POWERFUL new telescope instrument at the South Pole has provided fresh evidence that the universe is accelerating outwards and is dominated by a strange form of matter nobody knows anything about, a new scientific study will reveal. Cosmologists, working in temperatures plunging below minus 73 degrees Celsius have detected subtle temperature differences in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation to produce the most detailed images of the early universe ever recorded. CMB is the remnant radiation that escaped from the rapidly cooling universe about 400,000 years after the Big Bang. The instrument, known as an Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR), is part of the solar observatory at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. In a press statement, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) said this provides data to support the currently favoured model of the universe "in which 30 per cent of all energy is a strange form of dark matter that doesn't interact with light and 65 per cent is in an even stranger form of dark energy that appears to be causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate". "Only the remaining five per cent of the energy in the universe takes the form of familiar matter like that which makes up planets and stars." The new images produced by ACBAR also reveal the "seeds" that grew to form the largest structures seen in the universe today. The South Pole data coincides with data produced by a Cosmic Background Investigator (CBI) based on a mountaintop in Chile that uses different instruments, observing strategies, analysis techniques, and sources of foreground emission. "It is amazing how precisely our theories can explain the behaviour of the universe when we know so little about the dark matter and dark energy that comprise 95 per cent of it," ACBAR co-principal investigator William Holzapfel of the University of California at Berkeley said in the statement. The dark energy inferred from the ACBAR observations may be responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. "It is compelling that we find, in the ancient history of the universe, evidence for the same dark energy that supernova observations find more recently," said Jeffrey Peterson of Carnegie Mellon University. The devise is an array of 16 detectors that create images of the sky in three-millimetre wavelength bands near the peak in the brightness of the CMB. ACBAR has just completed its second season of observations at the South Pole. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is ideally suited for astronomy, especially observations of the CMB, due to the lack of water vapour in the thin atmosphere above the station, which is located at an altitude of about 3000 meters atop the Antarctic ice sheet. "Our atmosphere may be essential to life on Earth," said co-investigator John Ruhl, "but we'd love to get rid of it. For our observations, the South Pole is as close as you can get to space while having your feet planted firmly on the ground." The Antarctic Sun newspaper of the US base at McMurdo Sound reports in its latest issue that a new 16 million dollar telescope to be installed at the South Pole will solve the issue of what the dark matter is made up of. "With that information we can really solve for how the universe evolved," said John Carlstrom, a leading astrophysicist on both the planned and existing South Pole telescopes. At 8m in diameter, the unique new telescope will dwarf other telescopes and many structures at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. privacy � Davies Bros <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
