Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Today Is History

Yep folks, science made history today, as well as mathematics! Scientists say they have seen the results of dark matter, by observing two gas clouds in space collide and seen the gravitational effects of dark matter on the gas. They claim 80-90% of the universe is dark matter, though they haven't seen any yet. Some say it doesn't exist, some say it does.
I do know that gray matter resides, or should be between our ears, and it doesn't matter, matter is all over the place, eh, eh.
A Russian mathematician has solved the 100 yr old mathematical mystery of the Poincare conjecture. This relates to surfaces like a donut, a donut can not be made into a sphere with out ripping it apart. You know, if an ant walks on an apple it will eventually get to where it started. It can walk left and right and forward and back, but it can't walk up and down. This 3D image will help us determine the shape of the universe as well as other things. It will also solve the singularity issue by mathematically hiding it so the equation can continue.
Now I don't know about you, but I have always wondered when eating a donut why they weren't spheres, and if an ant walked on said donut it would come to where it started.
Whew, and he wins a million for exercising his gray matter! I knew I was in the wrong business.

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